In the search for a jQuery “slider” (made popular by the nice one at http://panic.com) for a client’s WordPress installation, I decided to give EasySlider a try. After QUITE a bit of tinkering I was able to integrate it into the site and there were moments I thought the plugin ought to be entitled NotSoEasySlider, which is a greater reflection on how WordPress made it a bit complicated than on the great work by the author, Alen Grakalic!

I spent nearly 2 solid days trying to figure out why the latest posts on one of my clients’ sites were not showing up in the “popup preview” provided by email marketing site MailChimp. I love http://MailChimp.com, but this had me stumped and my eyes were beginning to cross. I had already spent countless hours learning how to create a custom RSS feed, template and query in Wordpress (future, much bigger article).

Depuis son lancement il y a moins qu’un an, je suis sérieusement amoureuse de l’application (extension Firefox) Feedly qui est un aggregateur de flux RSS sans pareille. C’est ma page d’accueil dans Firefox, ma lecture de soirée, ma façon de surveiller des centaines de sites ou blogues que je n’ai pas assez de temps à [...]