Archive for September, 2008
My second WordPress plugin, Xavin’s Review Ratings, was released today, and it is much more complicated and useful than my plugin for listing pages. It allows you to use a shortcode to easily add ratings to your pages that look like this: There are a ton of options and full documentation on the plugin page.
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Tags: PHP, Plugin, WordPress, Xavin's Review Ratings
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I have been using Vista on my work machine for the last six months, and have generally been happy with it. The only big problem I have had was that the Start Menu search, which is one of Vista’s best new features, would seemingly randomly crash explorer.exe. I finally got tired of this and decided […]
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Tags: Adobe, Crash, Vista
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I released my first WordPress plugin today, Xavin’s List Subpages. It’s a fairly simple shortcode wrapper over a wordpress function, but I use it extensively on this website. I’m getting close to being ready to release the plugin I use to make the review rating stars on this site also.
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Tags: PHP, Plugin, WordPress, Xavin's List Subpages
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I have to admit, I got hooked watching the early seasons of the original 90210 one summer during high school. While it wasn’t great television, it did have that soap opera “I have to find out what happens next” quality, and without it we wouldn’t have gotten great shows like Buffy, The O.C., and Veronica […]
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Tags: 90210, Drama, Fall 2008 Season, Review
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Prison Break has been a very uneven show. Most of the first season was good, but the second season was horrible. The third season managed to recover somewhat, and get good again near the end. Of course, the main problem is that you can only break out of maximum security prisons so many times before […]
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Tags: Drama, Fall 2008 Season, Prison Break, Review
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Watching Alias during it’s original run was a frustrating process. In the beginning, every show ended in a cliffhanger. Later, the pacing and quality faltered, which led to long periods of disappointment. Despite that, it was amazing when everything managed to come together. I recently watched the entire series in marathon format for the first […]
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Tags: Alias, Classic TV, DVD, Retrospective, Review
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