Top 10 WordPress Plugin Developers

December 28th, 2008

As the year is coming to an end, perhaps it’s time for a different kind of “Top X” post. Instead of a list of new WP plugins to try out, here are the top plugin authors – the brilliant people who create outstanding tools and share them with the [...] Continue Reading…


Cool Homemade Keyboard + Interface Bandwidth Rant

December 23rd, 2008

Take a look at this cool homemade keyboard. Plus an accompanying rant about how surely there has to be something interesting in the gap between QWERTY and a brain implant. [...] Continue Reading…


Admin Menu Editor For WordPress

December 20th, 2008

Here is my latest and hack-iest plugin yet – Admin Menu Editor. It’s a WordPress plugin that will let you manually edit the Dashboard menu. You can reorder the menus, show/hide specific items, change access rights, and more. The plugin is still a bit rough around the edges, so [...] Continue Reading…


The Tree Link Project – Sponsor A Tree By Posting A Link

December 15th, 2008

Christmas – the time of goodwill and gifts and all that philosophical stuff – is coming. So, in the spirit of the season, I’ve decided to start up an unusual charity project/experiment. Here’s the idea in a nutshell – for every link you point to this page, I will [...] Continue Reading…


Fast Weighted Random Choice In PHP

December 10th, 2008

Sometimes you may need to randomly select items from a list so that some items are selected more frequently than others. For example, you might take a list of applications and their download counts, and randomly pick a “featured application” based on the number of downloads.

There are several [...] Continue Reading…