Facebook Like Button For WordPress

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Facebook announced a lot of new stuff on this years F8 conference. One of the biggest announcements was the OpenGraph protocol that lets users integrate web pages into the social graph. Included in this releases is also a set of social plugins and one of them is the Like button that lets users to make connections to web pages and share content back to their friends on Facebook with one click. A typical use case would of course be to use it on a wordpress blog. So I created a plugin that would make it easier for wordpress users to use it and customize the behavior and appearance to each likings.

More info about the plugin and download link is available on the Facebook Like Button Plugin page

Software Updates

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Got some time this weekend to do some updates on my projects.

Found out by one user that my Google Ajax Feed Slide Show plugin had some trouble working with Flickr. When investigating this it came to my attention that Flickr’s Media RSS only exposes the 75×75 square thumbnail in the thumbnail section, which really sucks IMO. So I created a Yahoo pipe that Flickr users can use in conjunction with my plugin to get medium sized images in their slide shows. The Google Ajax Feed API has a lot of features and I felt the need to include some more while fixing the bugs.

Changelog

  • Fixed a bug with URL’s that was encoded.
  • Added thumbnail_size parameter.
  • Added num_results parameter.

For more details and download go to the Google Ajax Feed Slide Show page.

The Expono Aperture Plugin had some troubles with image titles when exporting and some usability problems when authentication failed. Thanks to @jemostrom for reporting and helping me with the bug testing.

Changelog

  • Titles on exported images will be set to IPTC headline if set, otherwise version name will be used.
  • Better error checking when checking authorization that allows you to retry if it fails.

For more details and download go to the Expono Aperture Plugin page.

Crashplan slow on Snow Leopard

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A while back I bought a 3 year family plan on crashplan. I did evaluate the largest online backup services and crashplan was a perfect fit for my needs, multiplatform, cheap and ability to backup network drives. At the time I bought the crashplan subscription I was running Leopard on my primary workstation and crashplan did play fine together with it. When I later upgraded to Snow leopard my computer started to feel slow and sluggish when it actually should be faster. I finally took time to do some investigating to find out that a java process was eating memory like crazy. 64-bit java apparently eats double amount of ram compared to the 32-bit version. Well I should have known better then to choose a backup client written in java, such background process shouldn’t need more than 5Mb memory. I quick fix that makes i bearable is to force the client to run in 32-bit.

Edit the following file:

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.crashplan.engine.plist

Add the following line:

<string>-d32</string>

After this line:

<string>/usr/bin/java</string>

Save the file then restart the backup client by running the following command in terminal:

sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.crashplan.engine.plist
sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.crashplan.engine.plist
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