Tag Archives: Elgg

AJAX Demo Applications Removed

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

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

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

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

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

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 And Zen Cart

Pennsylvania still has not passed a budget so I continue to work on my web development skill set. Currently I plan to focus on Elgg and Zen Cart. Zen Cart is a new web application for me. I think it … Continue reading

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My Professional Development

I have not been putting as much time into my professional development as I used to but I still make incremental advances. ASP.NET technology has outpaced me since I managed to catch up with ASP.NET 2.0. I have not learned … Continue reading

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Book Review – ASP.NET 3.5 Social Networking

I recently finished reading the book ASP.NET 3.5 Social Networking by Andrew Siemer. I consider this book to be one of the more important books to read because I’m very interested in building social networking web sites and ASP.NET is … Continue reading

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Elgg Languages

Today I examined how Elgg supports foreign languages for web site internationalization. I discovered that Elgg does not check the browser’s language setting. Instead you have to set the language for the entire site. This means that you cannot create … Continue reading

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Elgg Widget – Amazon Wish List

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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Elgg Plugin Template

Yesterday I created an Elgg Plugin Template. This really advanced my understanding of the web application architecture of this social networking platform. Before this I was testing out my PHP code using the REST API which is a crude way … Continue reading

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Plugging Along

I’ve been feeling pretty listless when it comes to programming and web development but I continue to make progress on various projects. I have not been learning much of anything lately. Instead I am focusing on a few projects. Elgg … Continue reading

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Ning Has Eviscerated Their Platform

On October 21st, 2008 Ning announced that they would no longer allow Network Creators to customize the functionality of their Ning sites via PHP development. The only option to add new features is now through OpenSocial Applications. And the only … Continue reading

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Firebug, PHP, JavaScript, and Media RSS

I continue to spend a lot of time just on improving my web development skills. Recently I’ve been working on some complicated JavaScript which required me to spend an entire day researching how to parse XML using JavaScript. I created … Continue reading

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