jQRangeSlider

Some really well made jquery plugin today: jQRangeSlider: fully customizable UI slider elements to select a range of values. Nothing is hard coded, it integrates easily (although I had a little struggle integrating it in WordPress today – don’t ask why), it supports mousewheel actions and more.
Kudos to GHusse

By the way, if you’re working with the Javascript Date-object:
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_date.asp

Don’t confuse

getDay()

and

getDate()

as I did today because it was used wrongly in the documentation for JQDateRange, triggering a lenghty and useless debugging tract, and eventually the writing of this little note.

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E-mail posting to Wordpress.com

Here's the situation: You've managed a Wordpress.com blog and it looks kind of neat, it has a lot of followers, and your heart grew attached to it. But you're too long in this game to ignore the obvious limitations of Wordpress.com, and you have moved to a self-hosted site. But you want to keep the old blog going... This can be done effortlessly using the posting by e-mail function of Wordpress.com. IT not only allows you to send HTML E-mails (provided the markup is correct), but it also accepts a number of shortcodes like so [tag cool, e-mail, posting, geek] [category Wordpress] [delay +2 hours] [more] [geotag on] [publicize on] Check out the full list of possibilities here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-email/ So, when sending these e-mails with a plugin from a self-hosted WP site, you can create an action hook to add the tag and category shortcodes. Will look into that next time.

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Graigfind.com

Okay, I'm not going to mimic what dozens of writers have done before and compile a list of the best websites to find decently paid online work. It has been done, and it has been done well and the first five google results will get you were you want to go. It turns out that craigslist.org is very useful for the online workforce, because many job posters don't care where someone is located - they just want to get the job done. So we just do a keyword search on good old craigslist? Almost. We use the API, or rather make use of the work some other fine geek (thanks!) out there did and go to www.craigfind.com I don't know about bandwitdh limitations or how long this is going to be around, so just check it out for yourself.

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FoxReplace

Did it ever happen that you couldn't stand a word or a phrase? Just don't like the ring of it, or the associations? Would it be nice to just replace all these expressions with things that we experience as more honest? I googled this three minutes ago and, flash! there it was: I found a Firefox plugin today that does just that: FoxReplace. Works like a charm. There are options to auto replace on page load, replace HTML or URLs, and it comes with a mechanism to match any URL like "http://*.example.net/| ". Here are a few words that I am replacing in order to make my news websites digestible:

• worker > slave
• NRA > gun fanatics
• growth > expansion at all costs
• capitalism > planetary rape
• banker > wanker
• the system > the corrupt system

You get the idea. And because words have an aura and when we read them often enough, they shape our world, this could be a small but meaningful contribution in the fight against the system. I think this is an awesome plugin ;-

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Top 8 Best Wordpress Tutorial Sites

Okay, this is a subjective thing. I'm a very chaotic occasional wordpress developer and I google everything. Tons of good sites and some junk has turned up in those searches, and an occasional miss. Anyway, here are the sites that helped me most with Wordpress, fresh from my bookmarks, so all the links are pointing to some useful tuturial as a bonus

1. DigWP
2. Six Revisions
3. Makeuseof
4. Pippins Plugins
5. CatsWhoCode.com
6. Wptuts+
7. How to use Ajax in WordPress
8. Deluxe Blog Tips

   

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www.imagesplitter.net: Online image splitting

Was searching today for a tool to split an image in many parts, for some web design idea. I know, that is something Photoshop or the Gimp do in a whim. I don't have these programs because my netbook is not powerful enough and its screen to small. I use paint.net and haven't yet figured out how to write macros/scripts or download a plugin for "splitting a photo into many equal parts" (hence my search string). What I found is www.imagesplitter.net that does this exact job well, along with resizing, cropping, and conversion.

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