WordPress Hacking – Finding all images in a post

This is a continuation of the series where I attempt to build a solution to display WordPress posts with attached images such that the post content itself doesn’t show any of the images and the sidebar instead displays the images. In my previous post I described creating a simple WordPress plugin with an empty widget….

WordPress Hacking – Creating a Plugin and Sidebar Widget

To follow-up from my previous post, I had a unique requirement for our personal blog which was to display images attached to a post on the sidebar and not in the post. The first item I needed to figure out was how do I hook into the WordPress system to make changes. WordPress has a…

WordPress Hacking – jQuery Colorbox

We have a personal blog that I host using wordpress on my domain (just like this one). Posts on the personal blog are made by someone who’s not into technology and isn’t interested in details – they’d much rather prefer something that’s user friendly and just works. The posts are usually made using Windows Live…

Configuring Ubuntu – Getting 5 button mouse to work

I run an Ubuntu guest on VMWare Player (host OS is Windows 7) at home. For the longest time, one big annoyance has been that I didn’t have my 5 button mouse (Microsoft Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 7000 – but this tip applies to any 5 button mouse) working properly. Specifically, the two buttons on…

Hello, World!

Any new technology endeavor starts with a familiar introduction – a way for the programmer/user to get the system to greet you with “Hello, World!”.  I believe this tradition started with Brian Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie’s famous book about the C programming language.  Here’s my “Hello, World!” in this blog – I hope to share…