Baku

I’ve not been able to get online properly at all the past week as I’ve been over in Baku (Azerbaijan) due to work, although I’ve got access to a pretty decent connection line now I’m staying at a co-workers”s place. Got another week to do before I fly back to the UK.

Baku is an interesting city to say the least, it’s helped a lot having a few co-workers who have been living here for the past few months and have shown me about the place. Although I’ve already been struck down with what the expats call Baku Belly!

Better start sorting through last week’s e-mail and feeds now, may try to upload some of the photos I’ve taken this weekend.

• MWUG – Meeting 18th August. Recently found this WordPress user group. Can’t make this meeting but I need to make time to get to some of these events including PHPNW meetings. (0) #

WordPress plugin development links

While developing Basic-SEO I’ve found the following sites very useful for reference purposes:

WordPress Plugin Repository – http://wp-plugins.org

You can’t beat learning by example, here you can browse the source code of all the plugins WordPress.org hosts.

WordPress PHP Documentation – http://phpdoc.wordpress.org/

All the comments from the WordPress source code extracted in HTML format and correctly linked, very useful for looking up functions.

WordPress Hooks Database – http://adambrown.info/p/wp_hooks

Database of all the action & filter hooks that have ever been available in any WordPress release and where it occurs in the source code.

WordPress Codex – http://codex.wordpress.org/

The official documentation for WordPress, has a very useful developer documentation section.

• Journalism Warning Labels (via) - bloody brilliant! I love the “Journalist does not understand the subject they are writing about” label. My eyes were opened to this kind of thing when the national media got a story about someone I know horribly wrong. (0) #

• The Pac-Man Dossier. (via) Excellent study of the classic game, even if your not a big fan of it it’s an interesting read. (0) #

• Initial Thoughts on Oracle vs Google Patent Lawsuit – Miguel de Icaza. Includes some interesting background information. I do hope this gets resolved quickly as I’m a big fan of both Java and Android. (0) #

WordPress plugin: Basic-SEO

It’s time to unveil my first WordPress plugin: Basic-SEO. It’s a very, very simple plugin really, it applies a pre-defined set of search engine optimisations to your active theme. It has no configuration options at all at the moment it just achieves the goal I had in mind for it. I thought I’d release it as it is now in case anyone else finds it useful. I’ve already got a list of features I’d like to add to it but my next step is to get it listed on WordPress Plugins.

If you find the plugin useful or have an feedback then please let me know.