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Bazaar Plugin for OnTime Integration

John — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:26:01 +0000

I was playing around with bazaar, whilst reviewing distributed version control systems (DVCS), and created a simple plugin for use with axosoft’s ontime. The plugin parses the commit message and links the files to the related task, defect or feature.

Install

Download the tar file from [download id="3"]
Extract and run the installer using the following:

tar -vxzf bzr-ontime-0.0.1.tar.gz
cd bzr-ontime-0.0.1
sudo python setup.py install

Configure

Setup the database connection information.
/etc/bzr-ontime.conf

[ontime]
server=your-mssql-server
username=sa
password=p4ssw0rd
database=ontime

Confirm Installation

bzr hooks

If the plugin is installed correct you should see the plugin listed under the post_commit section.

Pirate Day! Arr

John — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:18:04 +0000

So talk like a pirate day is coming around soon and saw a brilliant method of converting web pages from boring English to cool Pirate talk. So having nothing better to do at the moment I knocked up a small plugin that will convert your blog posts to pirate talk on the 19th, to give your readers something nice to look at.

Plugin can be found at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pirate-talk/

Feel free to make it better.

Plugin Crazy!

John — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:00:17 +0000

So after creating my first proper plugin, post-to-facebook, I decided to have a go at creating another one. This one was created after I set up a blog for my dad to post updates and photos to so that he wouldn’t have to resend the same emails to different people. The after giving him a brief overview of how to post items and upload photos I noticed that the images he was uploaded were to large to be correctly displayed, when using the light box plugin. So from this I decided to write a plugin that would allow for the maximum size an uploaded image can be, and if it is larger it is resized. I’ll submit it to wordpress for download. This plugin is ideal for people who don’t want to worry about resizing their images before they post them to wordpress, this is ideal with. The plugin homepage is can be found on the page resize-on-upload-plugin

‘Post to Facebook’ WordPress Plugin

John — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:35:18 +0000

After wanting to be able to post stuff to my facebook account from my blog for no other reason than “I Can”, I looked around at the plugins that exist at the moment. The ones that I found worked but they were not what I wanted. The closest I got was the plugin Publish To Facebook. What I didn’t like about this plugin was that it highjacked the publish/update button. What I wanted was the ability to press a button and publish to facebook for only the posts that choose. So I decided to write my own plugin, that add a button to the edit page to do just this.

The can for the moment the source code can be checked out from bazaar repository, then simply upload the folder to the wp-content/plugins and you’re good to go. If you don’t like or use bazaar you can download the tar ball.

Download: post-to-facebook.tar.gz

bzr branch http://bzr.yeticode.co.uk/post-to-facebook

Simple SVN WordPress Widget

John — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:43:15 +0000

After getting bored on working on my final year project I decided to take a look at creating widgets word my blog. There are SVN hooks on my repositories that store the commit details in a SQL database. I thought I would create a widget that would pull out the last message and display it.

/*
Plugin Name: LastCommit
Plugin URI: http://blog.yeticode.co.uk/
Description: Gets Last Commit Message
Author: John Tindell
Version: 1
Author URI: http://blog.yeticode.co.uk/
*/
function lastCommit_widget() {

	$server = 'localhost';
	$link = mssql_connect($server, 'username', '************');
	echo '
';
	echo "
Last Commit

";
	if($link)
	{
		mssql_select_db('svnyeti', $link);
		$query = mssql_query('select top 1 * from SVNLog order by liLogEntryPk desc', $link);
		$row = mssql_fetch_array($query);
		print '
' . $row['lszLogEntry'] . '';
	}
	echo ' 

';
}
function init_lastCommit(){
	register_sidebar_widget("LastCommit", "lastCommit_widget");
}
add_action("plugins_loaded", "init_lastCommit");

When I get more time I will develop this a bit more.