Category Archives: Code

Aside: Scala Tutorial

Just worked my way through the Scala Tutorial (PDF). It’s an interesting language so far. It mixes my favorite parts of functional and object oriented languages in an elegant way. I’ll have to write something in it to see if … Continue reading →

Posted on July 16, 2010 by James | Leave a comment

Learning Erlang

Posted on January 26, 2010 by James

I’m learning Standard ML in Principles of Programming (15-212). I didn’t think I would like the functional programming paradigm but it’s starting to grow on me. Having functions as first class values allows you to do some pretty neat things … Continue reading →

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Related Posts Widget 1.0

Posted on January 1, 2010 by James

Related Posts Widget shows a list of posts with similar tags to the current post. The widget is only shown on single post pages. That is, it is only shown when is_single() returns true. Features: Support for displaying thumbnail images … Continue reading →

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Category Posts Widget 3.0

Posted on December 30, 2009 by James

This latest update introduces a few new features: Support for WordPress 2.9′s post thumbnails. Option to show the post date. Option to show the comment count. Option to set the word length of the excerpt. Note that support for Simple … Continue reading →

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Category Posts Widget 2.0

Posted on July 29, 2009 by James

Update: Category Posts Widget has been updated to version 3.0! I just released a long overdue update to Category Posts Widget. At the time of this writing, it has been downloaded over 23,500 times and has an average of 4.5 … Continue reading →

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Simple Plugins for Press75.com

Posted on April 4, 2009 by James

I wrote a couple WordPress plugins for Jason Schuller over at Press75.com. Jason designs premium themes for WordPress. Many of his themes have been video centric and he asked me to write a couple plugins to make it easier for … Continue reading →

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Category Posts Widget update

Posted on November 17, 2008 by James

I made a small update to my Category Posts Widget plugin regarding the problems people were having with displaying excerpts. Thanks to “carnyfeet” who posted the fix in this thread on the WordPress forums. You can download the update at … Continue reading →

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