Yahoo counters Google Latitude: Friends on Fire

Taking a different approach to Google’s Latitude software, Yahoo has released a Facebook application called Friends on Fire that lets people share their location with each other. Google Latitude is an island unto itself, using Google’s own technology for cell phone-based location detection and for managing who gets access to your location. Friends on Fire, [...]

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Donncha: Make your WordPress plugin talk AJAX

This morning at BarCamp Cork I gave a short talk on how to add AJAX functionality to WordPress plugins. Here are the example scripts I used during the talk. Rename the files to .php and install as you would normal WordPress plugins. helloworld1.txt – very simple and basic “Hello World” plugin. helloworld2.txt – script that [...]

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