I have now released the first version of wpDirAuth, a WordPress LDAP connectivity plugin I have been working on for the last month, after an extensive community-based peer review period. The latter helped a lot with hammering desired functionalities as well as coping with the countless configuration permutations found in the directory server sphere.
Fun stuff. 🙂
I’m trying to kickstart a group on FB that aims to reach the largest audience of Open Source developers on the site, be it software, hardware, content and other open ventures.
Join in, say hi, show your colours and maybe even inspire others.
Post early, post often. You can also spread the word, thanks to Digg.
Oh, and if you’re feeling creative, an original logo would be great. 🙂
After a happy-daddy-induced hiatus from contributing to FOSS in the last few years, I have to say it feels great to be in that sphere once more. I quite recommend it (/smiles and points, infomercial style).
The few projects I’m working on and have or am about to release are not only motivating from a software perspective, but at the human level as well. A request for a peer review has led me to meet more like-minded people, if only virtually, and the in and off thread intellectual stimulation that has ensued is in and of itself retribution enough to me. Bonus: The threads have so far been focused and I’m getting some really valuable contributions.
Gotta love it. And sure, I will consider the outpour of VC funding that is sure to follow.
Uh uh, will too. ;p
Here’s an update on the recent days progress:
On this, time to hit the sack, because I’m having as much fun at work and I do need my beauty slee… err, I need to lay down for a while, manly and all… 😉
I just released wpRedirect 1.1, now with WordPress caching goodness. I am also now packaging the generated code documentation for download, per release.
You can find more information on wpRedirect, a handy WordPress post and page redirection plugin, on the related project page.
Since I’m getting wpDirAuth peer reviewed before releasing the first version, due to its security implications, I have released another project as my first official WordPress plugin instead.
You can find more information on wpRedirect, a handy WordPress post and page redirection plugin I developed for my site, on the related project page.
After getting in touch with and having gotten “approval” from its author, I’m attempting to fork off and revive wpLDAP and would like the upgraded code to be peer reviewed by other developers before I release anything into the wild.
The current development version is in my SVN repo at:
http://labs.tekartist.org/wordpress/svn/branches/dev/plugins/wpDirAuth/
If you decide to try and/or review it, please add your constructive criticism and test reports to the related WordPress Forum entry.
Thanks for any help I can get. 🙂
Since we’ve committed to MooTools for our RIA and AJAX development needs in the McGill WPS, I’ve been using it on my recently released personal site as well, so I can experiment outside of work but still try to gain from it professionally.
Therefore, I just opened a new section and repository under tekartist.org to feature little projects I plan to release publicly, as FOSS, for people to download, use, comment on and modify as they please.
You can currently only find more information about my source repository, but I will release a little project I’ve been toying with shortly, after I document it properly.
Tada! I have decided to move away from Blogger and instead leverage features afforded to me by my new web host, DreamHost. I have now acquired the tekArtist.org domain name and set myself up with a WordPress instance to run the present site.
Besides having imported my previous Blogger posts to the new blog section, you can now also browse through two new main sections:
The base page is mostly there as a soft landing pad for visitors just stumbling upon my site, but also serves as an OpenID delegate through myOpenID.
Please bare with me in regards to the domain-wide search, as I’m only using Google’s most basic site search feature. They have not yet picked up my pages in their index, since I just turned off the temporary password I had setup at the root level this morning.
Technologically speaking, the new site features tools and options such as:
You can read more about the WordPress theme I custom develop for this site in the related labs page. Since there is nothing really private in it (sensitive values are protected through more appropriate means), I have also decided to make the theme’s source available publicly, fact which might change at any time if I realize that this leads to abuse or security issues outside of what I originally planned for.
I have been relatively quiet online in the past few years while primarily focusing my energies on my responsibilities as a dad and as a professional. I obviously never stopped playing, but limited my personal publishing activities to blogging and participating in online communities, rather than releasing products or experiments.
Now that my beloved children are starting to require less of my attention (IE: less then 24-7), I now have the opportunity to revert closer to previous levels of contribution to the web and Open Source spheres. Don’t get me wrong though, I still have clear priorities. 🙂
As a final note, I just wanted to mention that my moving away from Blogger had nothing to do with necessity, as they truly have an excellent blogging platform, but stemmed from a desire for the increased flexibility that only a full on web hosting account and a product like WordPress can provide.
I have released a new version of parseMe, my lightweight browser-based RSS/Atom feed reader utility, which main target remains mobile phones and accessibility devices (universal access).
You can find the latest release in the download section, and more information about it in the release log. There is now also a public Subversion repository.
See embedded video below for a teaser of the FIC Neo 1973 running OpenMoko.
I even like the soundtrack they chose, and they also have more OpenMoko related videos on their dedicated Youtube account. Must… Fight… Urge… And wait until October for the consumer version. Not enough time on my hands to involve myself as a developer unfortunately, but once again, it wouldn’t be the first time I say this and fall for it later on. 😉