Posting suspended while on vacation

March 17th • No Comments • Under: Sidenotes

There will be no new posts until the next week (March 24) as there haven’t been any for the past few weeks already due to the studies and the current vacation.

Topics for the upcoming articles include: how to automatically create thumbnail images for the blog post excerpts (from the images inside the article), and how to create one sentence post excerpts using regular expressions (REGEX) and PHP. Therefore — stay subscribed.

Woolgathering — Daily Sketches and Drawings by Elizabeth Perry

February 23rd • No Comments • Under: Sidenotes • Tags: drawing

Amazing little drawings/sketches in various techniques by Elizabeth Perry published every day at woolgathering since January 2005. Be sure to have a look at one of her other projects — museum drawing project.

Single page entry archive is available finally

February 7th • No Comments • Under: Sidenotes

I have finally created a single archive page so that those who prefer plain and simple lists instead of various ‘Most Popular’, ‘Recent Posts’ or ‘Similar Posts’ widgets, can now easily find something interesting to read. All thanks to the the very useful Smart Archives plugin by Justin Blanton.

Suggestions for writing flexible and usable plugin

February 5th • 4 Comments • Under: Sidenotes • Tags: development, plugin, WordPress

After the release of Custom Function Widgets plugin I also wrote about it in the WordPress support forum. Fellow forum contributor Otto42 (author of a very similar plugin: ExecPHP) had very interesting things to say regarding the plugin development in general. Really worth reading and discussing.

Singer/songwriter Martin Confused — acoustic and absolutely fantastic

February 1st • No Comments • Under: Sidenotes

Martin Confused is an amazing singer/songwriter from Latvia whom I discovered only today. Download and listen to his two latest songs “Too late” and “Boy who never cried” at martinconfused.lv or watch him perform at NokiaOpenStage.lv. p.s. Turns out that we share the same surname — his real name is Mārtiņš Dambis.