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April 7th, 2010
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WordPress vs. TownNews

Note: This entire blog post in my opinion and solely my opinion. Take it for what it’s worth, an opinion.

If you follow me online you’ve probably noticed I have been pretty flustered with the current CMS that I have to use, TownNews. I have been sending a lot of jabber across Twitter recently like: 

$time_for_change = ($WordPress > $TownNews) ? true : false;
if ($time_for_change) {
  $save_money  = true;
  $save_time   = true;
  $faster      = true;
}
else {
  $save_money  = false;
  $save_time   = false;
  $faster      = false;
}

I’m a coder, that’s how I think and talk; There is no gray area, it’s true or false. It’s my opinion, but factual and it truly does equate. Time equals money and I seem to be wasting tons of time with TownNews.

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March 5th, 2010
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Simple Tag Bar for WordPress

So when I did the little redesign of my site earlier this week I added a right rail. With that I wanted to add some way to show tags that was not a tag cloud and wasn’t just a list of tags. I noticed on a co-worker’s blog (Kyle Slattery) that he had a really nice tag display. So I stole it, er better yet re-purposed it. The way Kyle did it reminded me of how Django makes its graphs, very clean and crisp. I really liked the idea and the presentation.

He doesn’t use WordPress so I had to build a quick script to accomplish this in WordPress. Easy enough actually. What it does it grab your top ten tags then do a little math to display them in a graph format. The more times a tag was used, the larger the graph. Again pretty simple.

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