Added the following plugins to this blog:

They seem to play well together. I’m using the first for comments and the second for registration. They both use reCAPTCHA, which I think I like. 😛 Took a few theme/style tweaks. I guess I’ll be stuck with this theme for a while. :>

OK, I’m not sure of the protocol on this, but since it’s now released into wild I guess I can brag a little. I’ve done a bit of work on the side for Intense Debate and the first fruits are showing up:

  • the announcement of the beta release of my plugins
  • the Firefox addons showing a couple dozen downloads and 5 5-star reviews (as of today)

I have newer versions and I’m working on a bloglines beta addon now. Fun fun!

UPDATE: Looks like the beta release of the first two addons is official now.

I’ve upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.6, and tried to tidy up a bit. My favorite trick for today came from here, where the author discusses a “geek switch” to turn off his more technical material. I have a Chatter category that’s in the same boat – sometimes I want to see it, sometimes I don’t. And I don’t want first-time visitors to have to see it.

I modified the original author’s toggle approach a bit, widgetized, with a touch more Javascript and updated for WordPress 2.6. You can see the toggle in the sidebar to the right, try clicking on it. Pretty fun eh?

See my Toggle Category wiki article for the gory details on setting this baby up. I <3 WordPress.

Lots of people have been doing this style of web mashup for a long time. Things are now stable enough, even in FF3, that you can jump in and get ramped up super-fast.

  • Install Firefox, along with Greasemonkey and Firebug addons.
  • Grab a starter script from here, save it as [myscript].user.js, and open it in Firefox (Ctrl-O) to install it.
  • Bang on it! Change the script to do your bidding…
    • change the target website
    • browse around for DOM objects to mangle with Firebug’s Inspect
    • you can do cross-site xmlhttprequests, whoop!
    • reload by simply reopening the file and refreshing the page
  • Compile the script into a FF addon in one easy step, here.

Bring all your honed software development skillz, or things will get messy fast. Get mashing!

Also check out chickenfoot for another way to go.

Here are mine, at the moment. These seem to be 3.0-friendly. I’ll update this as more plugins become available/improved.

Everybody loves Tab Mix Plus (including me), but… it’s really just a theft-and-scrub of many other extensions, and the authors haven’t been able to pull it all together for FF3 yet. At least not officially, I’m using this prerelease and it seems OK so far:

And for developing, these speak for themselves. Ready to go for FF3…