Monthly Archives: December 2009

Light SEO WordPress plugin

WordPress SEO plugin. This is a case study for creating a clean plugin, with emphasis in source code’s good practices. Automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization). Features: Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines. Generates META tags automatically. You can override any title and set any META description and any [...]
Posted in WordPress | 33 Comments

Facebook Silverlight and SlideShow2

Sometimes you are intrigued enough with something that seems cool and you decide to write some code and play a little with it. My last fun in this way was with WordPress, I wrote a small plugin that you can see here: Light Social. Now, I decided to play with the latest Microsoft SDK for [...]
Posted in Silverlight | 3 Comments

WordPress 2.9 and my first plugin

Last Friday was the release of the version 2.9 of WordPress (WP). I must admit that I fell in love with the simplicity of WP since I installed it for my personal blog. My previous experience was with Joomla for some personal and friends websites. Joomla is a great CMS but with only a few [...]
Posted in WordPress | 2 Comments

Light Social WordPress plugin

This is a super lightweight plugin to insert a set of social share links at the bottom of each post, focused on technical blogs. With this plugin you don’t have options to configure. Simply activate or deactivate to show or not the bookmark social links. This is the list of used social sites: Digg Reddit [...]
Posted in WordPress | 152 Comments

How to: Smooth Streaming and Windows Azure Storage

This is a pending blog that I have since I posted the announce of my Smooth Streaming video using Windows Azure Storage. I've been playing a lot with every component of the Smooth Streaming technology combining it with ASP.NET, IIS, Mono, Linux, PHP and more recently Windows Azure. There is someone out there playing with [...]
Posted in Streaming | 9 Comments

Proof of concept for Silverlight and Speex microphone capture

There is a lot of buzz due to the new capabilities of Silverlight 4, one of them are webcam and microphone capturing. Here are two great examples that you can use as a starting point: Accessing Web Camera and Microphone by Tim Heuer and Silverlight 4 Augmented Reality Proof Of Concept by René Schulte. The [...]
Posted in Silverlight | 12 Comments
  • What am I running?

    WordPress trunk, rev. 15157
    Nginx 0.8.36
    PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4
    APC 3.1.3p1
    WP Super Cache 0.9.9
    Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
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