PHP

It’s been a while since I posted anything here, I blame winter plus a host of all sorts of things that have been keeping me busy. Since the last blog post, there have been a number of things. Delano and I released One-Time Secret, along with Ruby, PHP and (thanks to Kyle Dawkins) Perl client libraries for using the API. OTS was a bit of distraction from our work on Blame Stella, but rest assured that work on Blame Stella 2.0 is still under way. We should have news on both of these projects in the near future. In this time, I did write a couple of blog posts for One-Time Secret. If you haven’t seen them, they’re here: A minor rant and pet peeve of mine: ‘Good’ vs ‘Strong’ passwords Some helpful tips on Protecting your credentials from criminals I’ve got a bunch of exciting new things on the […]... Read More

Ok, I’ve been doing all sorts of things with WordPress for a while now, but oddly enough, I never actually wrote a plugin (although, in retrospect, I did a lot of template hacks that probably would have been easier to do as plugins). Anyway, I needed a plugin for a blog I was working on that would allow me to display the summary of N number of blog posts from another blog. There seem to be plenty of existing plugins that do this, however most of them are either horrible code (both HTML and PHP), or they don’t work with Atom feeds that don’t have descriptions. I wanted something very simple, with very clean output that would ‘just work’™. So, after trying about a dozen of them, I decided to just write my own (which turned out to be insanely easy). If I would have started down that path at […]... Read More

Christopher Murtagh

Ponderer, feminist, musician and dad.

SimpleRSSEmbed – my first WordPress plugin