Yahoo counters Google Latitude: Friends on Fire

March 14th, 2009 by admin

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, though, [...]

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Donncha: Make your WordPress plugin talk AJAX

November 2nd, 2008 by admin

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 will [...]

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