Microkid

The #1 Worpress plugin to save your website from losing traffic and Pagerank after changing your permalink structure.It has been updated to 2.5 compatibility. Download version 1.3 here.

Already one of my favorite online identities, Johnny Lee’s presentation at TED of a couple ingenious Wii hacks. — Read on

And then suddenly Adobe takes the online office thing to a whole new level: Buzzword; a flash based online word processor.

After Alexanders feedback, I fixed a bug in the WP plugin “Permalinks Moved Permanently”.

Before, the plugin would not work if your old permalink structure did not contain anything between the domain and the post slug. So this would not work:

http://www.example.com/post-name/

The latest release (version 1.2) does.

If you have been experiencing this problem too, download the new version here.

Thanks again, Alexander.

Struggling with a complicated user interface problem? Looking for a way out of the box? Or are you just trying to expand your horizon?

Here’s a couple of resources that should provide you with enough to chew on for at least the first half of 2008. — Read on

Sweet!

If this is true, our miserable lives as developers, might soon become just a little bit less miserable.

The infamous IEblog reports that its developer team has found a way to bypass the Microsoft marketing departement and make the new version of Internet Explorer - IE 8, pronounced: IE HATE - more standard compliant. They have kindly requested general manager Dean Hachamovitch to leave his million dollar villa and for once actually do some work and put up an image of Internet Explorer 8 passing the Acid2 test. Lets just hope that Hachamovitch did not photoshop the image on his MacBook Pro.

Developers around the world, aware of the fact that this solves none of their problems, but hoping for a better day, are now waiting for the IE team to come up with an innovative solution to clear the dominance of IE version 6 in user world.

After the launch of Internet Explorer 7 in October 2006, the browsers developer team at Microsoft have once again excelled in productivity. After 14 months of hard labor they have astonished the world by coming up with a revolutionairy new name for the next release of the most hated piece of software in the world . Yes, the next horrible piece of crap that will roll out of their stinky ovens will carry the magnificent name of… Internet Explorer 8.

Already web developers around the world are referring to the upcoming terror as Internet Explorer HATE. Check out the comments on the obviously-designed-by-a-programmer IE blog. Seems like the Redmond crew is not making a lot of friends in developer land.

Here’s a couple of great comments on the Amazon kindle (handpicked from engadget.com), which is aggressively aiming at the price for least attractive gadget design ever.

“Its like a bad vision of the future from the 60’s”

“I predict this device will have a great future as a doorstop.”

“This thing looks like its from the 80’s and should have Texas Instruments on it.”

“Does it come with a deal on a dot matrix printer?”

“Buck Rogers called; he wants his book back.”

“It looks like something my high schools science lab would have owned about fifteen years ago.”

“Yeah, yeah thats all well and good, but the real question here is will it blend?”

“You would have to be a real asshole to make something that ugly.”

“Why does the ebook reader need speakers?”

“Now Soviet design clearly had some higher points than that…”

“That is fugly. I like the idea but I’m not getting THAT.”

“Wow, the design actually looks *better* on the inside!”

“But will it play Doom?”

“Definitely not a device to show off or to pickup chicks with.”

“The design team that came up with the 1970’s Atari/Radio Shack computer look should be shown the door.”

“It is truly butt ugly. wow. ugly.”

After reading this article on the Official Google Webmaster Blog, I was trying to find a way for Wordpress to automatically create effective meta descriptions following Google’s directions.

So I wrote this plugin that generates meta descriptions in this structure:

<meta name=”description” content=”Author: (author) | Categories: (categories) | Posted: (postdate) | Tags: (tags) | Comments (number of comments)” />

In the option panel you can choose which properties of the article you would like to include: author, categories, post date, number of comments and tags. You can also choose the devider you wish to use betwen the properties.

Tags is especially one you might want to consider leaving out because they might be already in you meta keywords.

This plugin is still in BETA and I don’t know wether it actually is an improvement on the attractiveness of your snippets. So please let me know what your ideas and experiences are!

Download the plugin here.

Installation: just drop it in your /wp-content/plugins folder and activate through the admin plugin interface. You can configure it through Options > Impr. Meta Descr. Snippets.

I have so far tested this plugin for compatibility with these other plugins:

• Ultimate Tag Warrior - If you are using WP 2.3+ with native tag support my plugin will use those tags, if you have a lower version and UTW installed it will use those.
• All in One SEO Pack - Make sure you switch of the “Autogenerate descriptions” option for this plugin or you will have two meta descriptions in your page, which can’t be good!
• TDO Mini Forms - My plugin will grab the author of the article when it’s been submitted through this plugin.

Ideas for future versions:

• Meta descriptions for pages
• Perhaps meta descriptions for the homepage and archive pages as well
• Better language support