Archive for October, 2008

YouTube looks to offering full length TV shows

YouTube will start offering full length TV shows with ads as Google is trying to get more revenue out of the video sharing site.
Full story at NYTimes.com

October 11th, 2008 | Posted in Unfiled | No Comments

WordPress: Get custom field function

On several WordPress projects I've needed to get the value of a custom field.  Not too difficult using the get_post_meta command, but I wanted a little quicker way.  So I now add this little function to the functions.php file on themes I'm working on.
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PHP:

function getMeta($key)

{

global $post;

return get_post_meta($post->ID, $key);

}

Say you've got a custom field [...]

October 10th, 2008 | Posted in Coding, WordPress | No Comments

JavaScript progress bar indicator

Need a way to show the progress on a long process on your web page? Here's a quick little JavaScript routine that will do it for you.

October 6th, 2008 | Posted in Coding | 1 Comment

Google at 10

About a week ago Google celebrated it's 10th birthday. It's amazing in a world where websites come and go on a seemingly weekly basis to see one that's around that long.
Screenshot of Google from 1997

They have put up a page that allows you to search their index from 2001 so you can [...]

October 5th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments