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A few weeks ago I picked up the book Microserfs which was on loan from a good friend of mine. He mentioned it would be a quick read, not full of much per say, but enjoyable none the less. This coming from an Ian Rankin reader, who also loves Anthony Bourdain citings. Lets put this into perspective here; I have not read a book (non technical of course) since very early in college, and even then, barely cracked the spine enough to give a second thought on the plot. So I was not at all ready to launch into a career of reading any time soon.

I really prefer softcover to hardcover as it is far more effecient reading something you can mangle to suit your reading preference, versus the hardcover where you are very fixed in your reading position. Getting back on track here, it was easy to see based on the cover that I might like this book. Read More…

I have implemented the Flickr RSS plugin for WordPress which surprisingly enough, works quite well as an SBM (Side Bar Module) with the K2 platform. It displays a nice RSS feed link, and the ability to display your photo-stream, with view options, or select sets that you want to be displayed. It has occurred to me that its important to keep administration overhead to an absolute minimum meaning that I do not want to have to much around with a lot of management control over my photo’s when I want them displayed properly with my site. Whew, ok so with that out of the way, and knowing that I needed to display a single set for my WordPress driven site, I needed to modify the Flickr RSS plugin to display my actual set instead of all of my photo-stream.

The short answer is that it worked beautifully. It polls what seems like on the hour for updates and refreshes my picture on my site. This is a small bit of functionality, but enough where I really wanted it to work well. Read More…