I’m from the East Coast – the New York City area – originally, now living in Seattle. And there’s differences – not as many as you’d think, but more than a few.
And right now I’m seeing a big one: the weather. It’s horrible back on the East Coast right now, crazy snow, ice, slush… all good reasons to just stay inside for a week.
In Seattle, it’s 35 degrees – cold, but clear. It’ll get into the 40s, and that’s good enough to go for a walk.
I think I like this a bit better.
Are you in the Seattle area?
Then you should go to WordCamp Seattle.
I also suggest you sign up at the WordPress Seattle site and with the the Seattle WordPress Meetup.com site.
Because the more people involved the better it gets.
It’s January 17 and I haven’t posted since before Christmas. It was a busy time – I am in Seattle now, but my family is on the East Coast, so I went back there for a couple of weeks, seeing family and friends, catching up on things, and doing the whole visiting-family thing you do when you live on the opposite coast.
In other news, my development machine – my older MacBook Pro – is currently running on its MAMP install the WordPress 3.1 beta, which I am poking at to find holes. I’m also working on some stuff with theme design, learning that, which involves learning PHP.
I’m also working on a new header graphic for the page, but my art skills, well, don’t really exist, so this is becoming interestingly difficult.
In short: visit back East, now working on more skill enhancements, some of them coming from farther behind that others.
Hope things are good for you! Have a good day.
I’m going to try to write here more often, so that I can keep myself going with my writing.
Hope all is well.
Seems a bit snowy out, doesn’t it?
Taken through the center of a wreath on a glass door, because the lower half of the door is closed up by snow and problematic to open.
I’m sorry for no updates lately, but I’m traveling for the holidays and that’s put a dent in my thinking time.
Once the new year starts, my hope is to do some more setup tutorials on things
Wordpress, so that the mistakes I make can help other people not make them.
See you in 2011!
My resume has been updated again, obtainable in major formats at the regular place.
That is all.
Twitter Tools is one of the top plugins for a WordPress install that wants to interoperate well with Twitter. It includes a widget you can put into a space on your WordPress site, the ability to have posts you make auto-notify Twitter, the ability to send tweets right from the WordPress Dashboard, the ability to auto-create the tweets with hashtags, the ability to choose only specific tags and categories to be automatically tweeted… a very powerful tool for social networking.
It can also be a little confusing to someone trying to set it up for the first time.
With that in mind, and making some mistakes along the way, I wrote this walkthrough for people who may want a more guided setup from someone who’s made the mistakes.
The walkthrough can be downloaded (as a PDF) from here: the Twitter Tools Walkthrough.
I’m working on one for Wordbooker, an interconnector plugin for WordPress and Facebook, and hopefully that should be up soon as well.
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My great thanks to my friends Vivian Withnail and Matthew Wagner for their gracious and kind reviews of my writing, and especially to Ms. Withnail (who can be found bibliophiling at Withnail And Books for formatting assistance to make it look considerably better.
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If you find this helpful, and want to toss me a little bit of money to offset my hosting costs, here’s a little something to use:
Personal issues came up and while the Twitter Tools tutorial is written, it did not get reviewed. I want eyes not mine to look at it, especially if they don’t know much about WordPress, so I can find out about grammatical errors, spelling errors, and things that don’t work well or are ungainly.
Once I get the feedback from the pre-readers, I’ll edit and put together.
I’ve started the draft version of the Wordbooker plugin, and that will go to them, as well, and then up.
Sorry about the delay, but I want things to look good and be understandable – these are aimed at people who may be starting out for the first time with a WordPress install, and they deserve something of quality.
(Also, this will give me some ideas of my skill at technical writing, which is something else I want to advance.)
Today, I did a presentation on how to configure WordPress plugins for the Seattle WordPress Meetup. It went well – people seemed interested, asked questions and understood what I was getting at.
Afterwards, i had people complement me on the presentation.
I’m pretty please with how it turned out.
sufficiently pleased that I’m going to do a quick how-to for setup for both the Twitter Tools and Wordbooker plugins, explaining how to do basic setup and avoid some of the setup mistakes that I made along the way. It’s part of me giving back to the community.
Expect it tomorrow.
I’m posting this as part of the demonstration I’m doing for the Seattle WordPress group, on crossposting to social media.
Once this goes up, it’ll show up on Twitter at @geoffdepew and on the Facebook for Geoffrey Depew.
