Web Applications

As an attempt to streamline site content etc. I have deleted the online labs section and consolodated all Silverlight samples and demo’s into one section. The idea was to have a labs section just for testing and a samples section for more mature apps. But the reality is that this is a lot more to maintain and would result in less content being produced so…

All new Silverlight content posted to the site can be found in the Silverlight 3 samples section here:

http://www.gwycon.com/samples/live-silverlight-demos/

Enjoy! Oh, and any particular Silverlight apps you are interested in seeing just drop us a line. Always happy to hear cool suggestions.

Just been updating the structure of the site to reflect our recent activity, which is pretty much mostly Silverlight at the moment. Check out the dedicated Silverlight Development page for more details!

Just to let you know our WordPress ‘To Do List’ Plug-in has been updated, and the latest version is v1.3. You can see more details here, as well as download the Plug-in direct!

New product announcement. Just a quickie folks!

We have been mulling this over for a while now and have decided to press (pardon the pun!) ahead with a new Windows WordPress Plugin Management application (developed in C#) which is targeted at WordPress Plugin developers.

Features for the first version are not finalised yet but it will definitely include functionality to login to your WordPress account, browse your installed Plugins, create new Plugins, edit existing Plugins, and lots more besides!

There is still a lot to think about, but more details will appear soon, so keep checking back and be sure to let us know any comments, and what you think, as well as any suggestions for features that should be a priority. How would an application like this make your WordPress Plugin development easier, and more streamlined etc?

Ok, we have another WordPress Plugin for you! Version 1.0 of our ‘Quick Code’ Plugin has been released on the WordPress Plugin directory this morning. This Plugin allows you to edit HTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL in the admin area of your blog, and see the results displayed directly on the same page! This is very useful for testing code fragments.

There have been many times recently that I have needed to test out a quick snippet of code, but had nowhere to easily place it to see the output. What I have had to do up until now is create a ‘test’ Plugin and insert echo commands to view output. Of course, as anyone who has developed Plugins knows, the results of sending data output with the echo command can be unpredictable depending on where you enter the command in your Plugin code. Now all you have to do is to simply enter the code in the ‘Quick Code’ edit box and see the results displayed immediately!

There is another useful feature, which is the usage of three external code files that are automatically included by the Quick Code Plugin when the Plugin admin page renders. These are:

• JavaScript file that is included in the admin head, and can be used to store JavaScript functions for reference from the main code edit box.
• Style sheet CSS file, included in the admin head, that can be used to store commonly used blocks of CSS code.
• PHP functions file, included directly before the main code output box, so that commonly used PHP functions can be stored and called from the main file.

See our Quick Code page for more information, or go to our Quick Code Plugin page on the WordPress.org Plugin directory.

Our To Do List Plugin has just had its first significant upgrade.

The most significant changes are:

• Support for multiple users. Every user of the blog can maintain their own list! Plugin automatically monitors who is logged in and displays the appropriate to do list.
• To Do List is now available as a dashboard widget for convenience, and accessibility.
• List saved in the database not as a text file.
• When a user is deleted from the blog, their to do list is deleted too automatically.

Here is a screen shot of the latest version of the To Do List WordPress Plugin:

You can download the latest version of the To Do List Plugin from our WordPress Plugin directory page here.

I noticed from the documentation that you are supposed to be able to hook into the new WordPress 2.7 admin short cuts menu (but it doesn’t say how)!

Ok, so after a little digging around in the WordPress core, the admin-header.php file (in the wp-admin folder) contains the code for the admin header.

In the admin-header.php file there is a section of code:

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<div id="wphead-info">
 <div id="user_info">
  <p>< ?php printf(__('Howdy, <a href="%1$s" title="Edit your profile">%2$s'), 'profile.php', $user_identity) ?>
  < ?php if ( ! $is_opera ) { ?><span class="turbo-nag hidden"> | <a href="tools.php">< ?php _e('Turbo') ?></a></span>< ?php } ?> |
  <a href="<?php echo wp_logout_url() ?>" title="< ?php _e('Log Out') ?>">< ?php _e('Log Out'); ?></a></p>
 </div>
 < ?php favorite_actions(); ?>
</div>

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Just another quick update (I must be on a roll today!). We have released version 1.0 of our Admin Log WordPress Plugin that keeps track of pages accessed in the admin area. It also logs who accessed them, and at what time (useful if multiple people have access to your blog and you want to know who is up to what).

See our Admin Log page for more information, or go to our Admin Log Plugin page on the WordPress Plugin directory.

Just a quickie..

The To Do List Plugin has had a couple of minor releases since the first one a couple of days ago. Here are the changes made:

• To Do List now located under the Dashboard top level menu. Makes more sense to put it here.
• Changed the way the Plugin gets the path to the To Do List Plugin folder. Now using ‘WP_PLUGIN_DIR’ constant rather than ‘PLUGINDIR’.
• Changed message when update button clicked. Used to display ‘Options Saved.’, now displays ‘To Do List Updated.’.
• Removed test code that shows magic quotes status.

You can get the latest version of the To Do List Plugin from our WordPress Plugin directory page here.

Our latest WordPress Plugin – ‘To Do List’ 1.0 has just been completed, and is available now for download.

It is compatible with the latest version of WordPress 2.7.1, and allows Blog owners to keep track of common tasks, by filling in the information in a text field in the Plugin Options page. This is then saved to a text file when the update button is clicked

The Plugin automatically checks to see if magic quotes are turned on, on your server. If so, the text entered in the To Do List text box is automatically stripped of escape characters (backslashes). Otherwise the text is left unchanged.

The To Do List Plugin has now been uploaded to the WordPress Plugins Directory. Also check out our To Do List page for more information on this Plugin.

As always, let us know what you think!