Author Archives: John Keegan

links for 2009-03-02

  • cSprites is a unique WordPress plugin that allows you to speed up your page loading time by reducing the number of requests for images and compressing the file size of those images. It works by first scanning your content for <img> tags, it then combines all of your images into a single large image called a sprite. The plugin then creates special CSS classes to display your images and replaces all of your <img> with new ones containing the updated CSS classes, next it inserts a new CSS file into your page <head> tag. Now when your page loads, rather than making many requests for multiple image files, it will make one request for the new sprite. It works by first scanning your content for <img> tags, it then combines all of your images into a single large image called a sprite. The plugin then creates special CSS classes to display your images and replaces all of your <img> with new ones containing the updated CSS classes, next it inserts a new CSS file into your page <head> tag.

links for 2009-02-20

  • Streamincloud.com is a free FLV encoder for Amazon S3 and CloudFront. We'll monitor your bucket for new video files and encode them in the popular Flash FLV video format.
  • Sphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version 2. Commercial license is also available for embedded use. Generally, it's a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data sources support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL or PostgreSQL, or using XML pipe mechanism (a pipe to indexer in special XML-based format which Sphinx recognizes).

links for 2009-02-09

links for 2009-02-08

  • WP-Invoice lets WordPress blog owners send itemized invoices to their clients. Ideal for web developers, SEO consultants, general contractors, or anyone with a WordPress blog and clients to bill. The plugin ties into WP’s user management database to keep track of your clients and their information.
  • With this plugin you will be able to send beautiful and styled html and plain text mails based on dedicated themes and templates for any e-mail notification issued for

    * comments subscribers,
    * your periodic newsletters or post notification (per post/daily/weekly/monthly),
    * specific admin events : registration of a new user, comment to moderate, new comment on your posts.

links for 2009-01-25

links for 2009-01-15

  • The package contains video solutions framework, including transcoder and administration interface utilities, written in PHP. The code was developed by Automattic Inc, and powers wordpress.com video solutions.
    It supports multiple formats including HD. We hereby make it open source project so that you can reuse it, build upon it, and share with the community.

    The solution is a WPMU plugin. However it can not be used as "out-of-the-box" type because it also depends on your file serving infrastructure, and your URL schemes. Customize your pieces, then you have a full-fledged video solution. Or you can just reuse the individual components such as video player or transcoder.

links for 2009-01-10

  • Blog authors around the world, Google would like to remind you that it's your blog, your data. Now that Blogger allows users the ability to export all contents of their blog, the Data Liberation team would like to announce the Google Blog Converters project. This new Open Source project provides the ability to easily move blog posts and comments from service to service. This initial release provides Python libraries and runnable scripts that convert between the export formats of Blogger, LiveJournal, MovableType, and WordPress.