The WP folks are announcing the latest version of WordPress will be released some time later this month. Granted, there’s not a lot left in the month and they’re only just beta testing now, but nevertheless they plan on releasing this month. The new features are exciting to contemplate, but especially helpful to us developers is the new Widget schema:
via Version 2.8 « WordPress Codex.
WP_Widget is a class that abstracts away much of the complexity involved in writing a widget, especially multi-widgets.
They’ve basically created a new class from which all new plugin widgets can be produced. This is, as noted, [...]
I’m continuing to work with my CakePHP project and have run across some interesting math problems I thought I’d share that surround ratings and popularity ranking for the site.
The hypothetical new service provides a social network sensibility to local civic participation, allowing users to vote on the importance of issues and comment on them. The ranking system is a simple up-or-down voting system, held in the database as either a 1 or 0, depending on the vote.
So, being a social networking site, it is important to provide some rankings in order for people to know what’s hot and what’s [...]
The last few weeks have been absorbed in some freelance work for a local marketing company, which is a nice change of pace. But that also means I’ve not been able to get at my new pet project in that time, which has been a bit of a downer.
And since that new project is CakePHP driven and I’m only really learning the platform, time away from the project means knowledge lost or at least deeply buried. That makes getting back into it something of a challenge.
And indeed, I took the better part of the last two days figuring [...]
