Category Archives: Elgg

AJAX Demo Applications Removed

Posted on 12/2/2009 by Robert S. Robbins

I have removed the following AJAX demo applications from the menus because changes in APIs have made them nonfunctional: Stickam, Technorati, Amazon, Yahoo! Video Search, YouTube Favorites. Some of these relied on web services that are no longer provided. My … Continue reading →

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Elgg 1.6 – International Weather Widget

Posted on 9/2/2009 by Robert S. Robbins

I have created a new Elgg widget to display your local weather on your profile page or the dashboard. In response to suggestions from Elgg users I have revised this widget to support International locations. You can download the plugin … Continue reading →

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Elgg 1.6 Threaded Blog Comments

Posted on 8/25/2009 by Robert S. Robbins

Elgg 1.6 has been released and I’ve created a new version of my threaded comment system to work with the current version. You can download the latest plugin at http://community.elgg.org/pg/plugins/rsrobbins/read/242714/threaded-blog-comments-elgg-16. I made a few improvements while working on the new … Continue reading →

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Elgg 1.5 Widget – Amazon Wish List

Posted on 8/16/2009 by Robert S. Robbins

Yesterday I upgraded my Amazon Wish List widget for Elgg 1.5. You can download it at http://community.elgg.org/pg/plugins/rsrobbins/read/230079/amazon-wish-list-widget Now that I’ve finally completed my work on the threaded comments for Elgg 1.2 it is time to move on to Elgg 1.5 … Continue reading →

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Elgg Threaded Blog Comments

Posted on 8/15/2009 by Robert S. Robbins

I have finally finished my work on a threaded comment system for Elgg 1.2. You can download the plugin at http://community.elgg.org/pg/plugins/rsrobbins/read/228544/threaded-blog-comments This must completely replace the existing blog plugin because the change from an annotation comment to an ElggObject comment … Continue reading →

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Vista’s Virtual Store Bites Me In The Ass

Posted on 8/14/2009 by Robert S. Robbins

I’ve been working on my blog comment threading modification of Elgg for the last few days. As I was copying my files to my iBook to test my instructions on how to implement the changes, I noticed something weird. When … Continue reading →

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Elgg Widget – Amazon Wish List

Posted on 2/16/2009 by Robert S. Robbins

Last week I finished work on a simple Elgg widget for displaying your Amazon Wish List. http://community.elgg.org/pg/plugins/rsrobbins/read/20493/amazon-wish-list-widget I started this project quite some time ago but got stuck on some jQuery AJAX errors. I’m doing a lot more work on … Continue reading →

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