OK, so it’s been two weeks since I posted, and my plan to say something valuable on Facebook or Twitter every day went by the wayside about 3 days in when I realized that even with just a few quality follows I was swamped. But the turning point came when I was reading Guy Kawasaki’s [...]
Well, we no longer have to refer to The Year Of Living Socially application as The Year of Living Socially application. It will now be known as NoTooMi. How did we come to that? It’s a reference to TMI, or “too much information”. In other words, NomoreTooMI. I’ve also been working behind the scenes on [...]
Technorati has been around long enough that it’s practically ancient in Internet time, but it’s still a primary source of information on blogs for various topics, and also for how your blog is rated in terms of links from other blogs, so you will want to go ahead and claim your blog. To do that, [...]
Before we really get started on any of the technical issues for The Year Of Living Socially, we really need to resolve the social media end of things, so that we can fulfill the plan of implementing the technical end ‘in public’. So the first thing we need to do is develop a strategy. Now, [...]
I majored in physics in college, not software engineering. For that reason, I felt kind of intimidated by formally-trained programmers for a long time. Even though I was working as a professional programmer (albeit in Macromedia Director, the predecessor to Flash) I didn’t know what business rules were, or Extreme Programming, or anything that the [...]
All right, now that we know how to add a new plugin to WordPress, we can take a look at listing our posts in chronological order, rather than traditional blog-based reverse chronological order. If you look up to the right, you’ll see a sidebar widget listing the Year Of Living Socially posts. We’re doing that [...]
Well, it’s becoming increasingly obvious that the “theory” posts are going to have to wait until the weekend, and the “implementation” posts will fill out the week. So today, tomorrow, and Friday, we’ll talk about how to add functionality to a WordPress blog. In this case, the functionality we want is the ability to show [...]
As part of cleaning up the blog for the Year Of Living Socially, I really want to clear up the amount of spam I have to deal with. Once I installed the blog as it’s current address, I immediately started getting comment spam. It’s not bad yet — just a dozen or so comments a [...]
JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is being used more and more for Ajax requests because it makes parsing the results pretty straightforward. In my case, I came across a need to build and parse JSON objects from Java. Fortunately, it’s pretty simple. There are a ton of implementations listed at Json.org, but I don’t have [...]
So yesterday I announced the Year of Living Socially, a year in which I’m going to complete a project that’s been in the works for years — right here in public, while I get my social media act together. There’s an awful lot of groundwork to lay, so I thought I’d start by defining just what it is that we have to do.