I agree with a lot of what Neven Mrgan has to say, and hold his opinions in high regard. Case in point: his piece on “The Walled Garden.” However, his most recent post, in my opinion, requires a response. It’s a mundane issue, and so is this counterpoint, but I just couldn’t let it go.
commentary, personal
I needed a script send an SMS today, and I found a very handy post at sudocode to send one via Google Voice, using PHP. I wanted to make it a little more command-line-friendly, so I rewrote it (ham-handedly) in Ruby and added some options parsing to it. It’s designed for — and only tested on — OS X, but may work fine elsewhere.
googlevoice, hacks, ruby, terminal
Introducing Markdown Quicktags, a new WordPress plugin for Markdown lovers! If you edit your blog in Markdown, whether you publish that way or not, this plugin will make your life almost 37% better. It’s quickly turning out to be one of the coolest things I think I’ve ever done!
Wordpress, experiments, markdown, mdqt, plugin, quicktags
I hope that the folks at BSR will forgive me for picking on their website’s aesthetics, as I have nothing but good things to say about the company and their products.
marketing, personal
You may have cause, at some point, to modify the behavior of the QuickTags in the HTML editor of WordPress (the non-WYSIWYG, non-“Visual” editor). There are a lot of tutorials available for editing the quicktags.js file in the WordPress wp-includes folder, but they all seem to want you to edit the file directly. That’s a Bad Idea™ because the next time you upgrade, your changes are kaput. Here’s how to make your own quicktags.js and do whatever you want with it.
Wordpress, hacks, markdown, quicktags
