Something to consider when developing a wp plugin

I’ve been busy developing a WordPress plugin lately and I experienced a best practice right away.

While developing the plugin will probably be the only one loaded. Once released into the wild, for instance by testing it on your live site, and being used in conjunction with pre installed plugins, you may run into PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class ... in ... errors, even when you use import_once or require_once. Continue reading Something to consider when developing a wp plugin

The Red Hat Satellite XMLRPC Series: logging

The Satellite XMLRPC API is a complete API, allowing management of the most common objects within the Satellite. It allows CRUD operations on channels, configuration channels, kickstart profiles, kickstart snippets, configuration files, etc. It’s organized using namespaces. Every trained developer will find his (or her) way in a moment. Continue reading The Red Hat Satellite XMLRPC Series: logging

PHP, OAuth and the LinkedIn API with SSL on Windows 7

I have been developing a tool which integrates a LinkedIn profile into WordPress. That’s not complicated because LinkedIn has an API which enables access to a LinkedIn users’ data. This API has great documentation and examples, which invites you to give it a try. Continue reading PHP, OAuth and the LinkedIn API with SSL on Windows 7

Parsing json with HTML style comments using python

I recently needed to add version control information into a file which had data stored in json format. As it turns out, I’m not the only one who learned about the issues surrounding json and comments. I wanted an HTML style comment at the end of the file. The solution was real simple, when using pyparsing. Continue reading Parsing json with HTML style comments using python

Personalize your LinkedIn Public Profile url

I’ve been seeing a lot of LinkedIn the last few weeks. The reason for that will be in a post in the near future. If you have a LinkedIn profile, you’ve probably noticed the “Public Profile” url on it. This url links directly to your profile. Every profile has one and the default link is hard to remember: it consists of your name and additional data. You can change that link yourself and it’s real easy. The steps are below. Continue reading Personalize your LinkedIn Public Profile url