Brent Shepherd
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Repositories
- Payment & subscription examples using the PayPal Digital Goods PHP Library.3 forks / 21 watchers / Pushed Jan 16, 13
- The missing PayPal Digital Goods PHP library. Friendly to humans.12 forks / 59 watchers / Pushed Jan 16, 13
- Reply by email to bbPress topics, using Postmark! Support for more services coming soon.2 watchers / Pushed Oct 16, 12
- Very simple plugin to hide 'non essential' wp-admin functionality from clients.1 watcher / Pushed Oct 15, 12
- WordPress plugin for signup/login using social media providers.18 forks / 40 watchers / Pushed Oct 14, 12
- Subscription Driven Support for WordPress plugins. Powered by the bbPress plugin, thunder & lightning. Beta.11 watchers / Pushed Sep 17, 12
- Basic layout of a WordPress Git repository. I use this as a base when creating a new repo.1 fork / 2 watchers / Pushed Sep 12, 12
- In a Multisite WordPress, automatically add new users to each of your sites.12 forks / 45 watchers / Pushed Aug 22, 12
- Control who can publish, edit and delete custom post types in WordPress. Silly name, useful plugin.1 fork / 6 watchers / Pushed Aug 13, 12
- Using Grunion Contact Form for WordPress? Make form submissions a little more slick with Grunion Ajax.6 watchers / Pushed Jul 31, 12
- Implements the Chosen jQuery Plugin for WordPress.9 watchers / Pushed Feb 14, 12
- Add a column in the WordPress manage posts table for each of your custom taxonomies1 fork / 3 watchers / Pushed Feb 14, 12
- WP e-Commerce plugin - The most popular e-Commerce solution for WordPress sites./ Pushed Jan 11, 12
- Builds on the excellent Bing Maps for WordPress plugin by adding a widget.2 watchers / Pushed Dec 14, 11
- Simple and unified PHP abstraction library for payment gateway integration/ Pushed Dec 11, 11
- A super simple plugin that offers basic authentication & url hashing to protect a file download link in WordPress.2 forks / 2 watchers / Pushed Aug 29, 11
- In WordPress, allow a site admin to restrict the non-hierarchical taxonomy items available to other users on their site.1 watcher / Pushed Apr 29, 11
- Restore the skip email notification option on the add users page for site admins.1 watcher / Pushed Apr 15, 11
- Allow site admins to change avatars of users on their site with the IncSub Avatars plugin.1 watcher / Pushed Apr 15, 11
- A fork of SimpleModal WordPress Login plugin to support Social Connect and consistently implement login_form & register_form actions.2 forks / 1 watcher / Pushed Nov 24, 10
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Tweets
- @matbeeche @shoestring_au it was actually 72k posts per hour. Big difference!
- Tesla may announce battery swapping next week. They're well positioned to succeed where Better Place failed http://t.co/5waUn7LSfC
- "Texas is expected to ignore an effort by Tesla to gain an exception to laws that prohibit factory-owned dealerships" http://t.co/o2cXsF5aRz
- @KateKendall @thefetch congratulations on the milestone!
- Wow - "Apple's [tax] payments account for $1 in every $40 in corporate income tax the US Treasury collected". http://t.co/kcH9I0EhGT
- @hanshepherd home now - great trip but good to be home. Let's catch up soon. Playing any gigs next couple of weeks?
- The Wearable Technology Market Is About To Explode | Business Insider Australia http://t.co/jtAZghXNxZ (via Instapaper)
- @bronsonquick are they being sent by postmarkapp now? If so, is its IP definitely included in the SPF?
- @pmgarman it never has trouble with pingdom. But that's only a request every 5 seconds... phone calls need much better reliability than that
- @bronsonquick I think it should be fine now. I unspammed a bunch and they all seem to be getting through now
- @hanshepherd how awesome! I bet your chin sings great ;)
- RT @om4james: Awesome @github open source contribution report: MT @xzyfer: This is pretty cool :) http://t.co/smIWyrqIkJ
- @thewebprincess haha true
- @jeffguthrie that's like getting a wp dot com site when you can hack, tweak and generally go crazy with a wp dot org site :D
- @thewebprincess @aaronrutley @maddisondesigns @pwcc @dogshindleg I will try to maintain possession of this one, but I don't like my chances
- @thewebprincess proof from honeymoon that I put swag to good use @aaronrutley @maddisondesigns @pwcc @dogshindleg http://t.co/XnjMtt1wBh
- @bronsonquick lol yes that, and I found all my http://t.co/MBmu2EzTjH forum notification emails were being spammed so I wasn't seeing them!
- Just spent 20mins on the first call made to my US @twilio number & forwarded to my AU mobile via OpenVBX running on my VPS. Flawless.
- @maddisondesigns haha that's my own damn fault for getting married /cc @wcmelb @thewebprincess @AaronRutley @pwcc @dogshindleg
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Posts
- Jul 22, 12
A visualisation of the last 2 years worth of SVN commits to the WordPress code base (as used in my WordCamp Sydney presentation). Checkout the slides here. Inspired by Jon Cave’s visualisation for WordPress 3.1. Built using Gource.
- Jul 22, 12
It was a great morning presenting at WordCamp Sydney. Thanks to everyone in the audience who allowed me talk about my three favourite topics – WordPress, the future & Deloreans. Or for a nicer experience, checkout the slides on SpeakerDeck. WordPress.com … Continue reading
- Jul 03, 12
PayPal makes it possible to accept payments via just a few pieces of HTML on your site with its Website Payments Standard service. This service includes a Subscriptions button to sell products or services with recurring payments. The trouble is, … Continue reading
- May 22, 12
If you’re in Australia (or Australasia) and work with WordPress, you should get along to WordCamp Sydney 2012. Australia had 2 WordCamps last year – Melbourne & Gold Coast. Both of which were fantastic events full of fun and learning … Continue reading
- Mar 27, 12
Tacking a post_type parameter to any search URL in WordPress filters the search results by a post type. For example: http://example.com/?s=speak+easy&post_type=events Will return only events which include the terms speak and easy. But when setting the post_type parameter to page, something unusual happens. … Continue reading
- Mar 03, 12
When publishing a post on WordPress.com these days, authors receive a new sidebar alongside their post. The most interesting feature in this sidebar is a game-like progress bar. Arbitrary goals are now being set on WordPress.com to encourage blogging. Publish … Continue reading
- Mar 03, 12
The Greeks used fire beacons at the time of the Trojan War, in the twelfth century BC. A bonfire on a mountaintop could be seen from watchtowers twenty miles distant, or in special cases even farther. … The meaning of … Continue reading
- Feb 29, 12
Early on, Graham envisioned this network as a “replacement for the traditional corporation.” “You know what’s great about the YC network? It gives the benefit of being part of a large company without being part of a big company,” Graham … Continue reading
- Oct 27, 11
WordPress 3.1 introduced the best new feature I failed to notice – built-in support for filtering posts by multiple taxonomies. For a post index or custom post type archive, instead of being constrained to queries for one taxonomy like this: … Continue reading
- Jul 11, 11
Recurring Payments with Digital Goods for Express Checkout is the 8 word name PayPal chose for their most convenient subscription product. The verbose name is a good indicator of the API’s complexity. It’s actually quite easy to integrate Digital Goods subscriptions. We … Continue reading
- Jul 01, 11
If you are using the new HTML5 input types like input[type="email"] and input[type="url"], you will discover their automatic validation bubbles in Chrome. Soon after spotting them, you will likely want to change their style. The good news is, Chrome makes selectors available as discussed … Continue reading
- Jun 20, 11
JLB’s presentation at Demo Day makes my inner ad-nerd excited. I love advertising. I don’t mean pop-ups, pop-unders, dog-ears, CPU chewing flash banners and all the other menacing forms it has taken in the last decade. I mean great creative campaigns. Old … Continue reading
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Posts
I don’t care if you can flash-fry an egg in between the battery and the eye, I can’t wait.
Marc Andreessen interview with QuartzFantastic list of tasks & habits that will make you a more effective entrepreneur.
Most of us, she has found, have two positive experiences for every negative. This gets us by, but it is effectively languishing.
This guy calmly walked up, took out a marker pen and tagged it.
I think we’re all headed toward an agent economy, where everyone becomes an agent or a service provider instead of an employee at some big corporation
3D Print YOURSELF a Princess (VIDEO)
One step closer to the plot from Cory Doctrow’s Makers becoming reality.
At the center of every startup is a secret. A secret is not an unknown. Rather, it’s something just not widely believed to be achievable or feasible. In other words, it’s an insight. Exploiting that secret should be the aim of every entrepreneur. Leveraging the secret means disruption and ultimately success.
Wearing full face masks at Chinese beaches is currently in vogue:
For legions of middle-class Chinese women — and for those who aspire to their ranks — solar protection is practically a fetish, complete with its own gear. This booming industry caters to a culture that prizes a pallid complexion as a traditional sign of feminine beauty unscathed by the indignities of manual labor. There is even an idiom, which women young and old know by heart: “Fair skin conceals a thousand flaws.”
With the pursuit of that age-old aesthetic ideal at odds with the fast-growing interest in beachgoing and other outdoor activities, Chinese women have come up with a variety of ways to reconcile the two. Face masks like Ms. Yao’s have taken this popular beach town by storm.
And:
“A woman should always have fair skin,” she said proudly. “Otherwise people will think you’re a peasant.”
(Via NYT)
3D-printed exoskeleton gives a little girl use of her arms
via nextbigfuture:
Two-year-old Emma was born with a rare disease called arthrogryposis that makes it so she can’t raise her arms without assistance. Through the use of 3D printing, a Delaware hospital created a mobile plastic exoskeleton that now allows Emma to use her arms for many things.
3D printing ensures that a new exoskeleton can be created if Emma breaks or outgrows it. Emma is now on her second 3D-printed jacket and calls the device her “magic arms.”
The video was created by 3D printing business Stratasys, which recently merged with Objet in a $1.4 billion deal. A Stratasys 3D printer was used to create Emma’s jacket.This announcement from Brightcove should trigger excitement in any front end dev. Running web content on the Apple TV is something I’ve personally dreamed of for a while now. Unfortunately comments indicate that the free version is essentially just a teaser, and most of the cool functionality remains behind a $99/month paid service. Ninety nine bones. Every month.
No thanks. I’ll wait until Apple offers it natively.
The proportion of businesses that reported receiving orders via the internet increased by 13% to 28%. Half or more of the businesses in the wholesale trade and manufacturing industries reported receiving orders online (52% and 50% respectively). The retail industry came in sixth place (35%). Businesses reporting a web presence increased from 40% to 43%.
8166.0 - Summary of IT Use and Innovation in Australian Business, 2010-11
Despite 30% growth in online orders, only 43% of Australian businesses have a web presence (which likely includes a simple static landing page) and only 28% received online orders in 2010-2011.
- Highlight any div with css outline
Sean and I figured out a quick way to put a transparent background around an item to call attention to it.
Try this:
.yourdiv { outline:1000px solid rgba(0,0,0,.5) }Haven’t tested in older IE versions, but this is a pretty cool css hack.
I’m now at peace with the idea of not owning any physical media ever again
- The Difference Between Square and Google
A textbook example of what is disruptive, and what isn’t:
- Google Wallet installs new credit card readers at Walgreens
- Square sells new credit card readers at Walgreens
Which could change the world?
Now, with Background Update Locations, Instapaper can automatically download new articles whenever you enter or leave locations such as your home or workplace.
Special thanks to News.me for pioneering…
Geo-fencing starts to go mainstream - exciting.
All images are Rorschach tests.
Françoise Mouly, art editor of the New Yorker, on art, specifically the magazine’s covers, at last night’s event at Greenlight Bookstore. (via largeheartedboy)iTunes is dead. But it’s still the big play. Microsoft became trapped in the Windows legacy and now, it appears, that Apple is becoming trapped into the iTunes legacy.
Guy English (via dbreunig)Transformative change happens when industries democratize, when they’re ripped from the sole domain of companies, governments, and other institutions and handed over to regular folks. The Internet democratized publishing, broadcasting, and communications, and the consequence was a massive increase in the range of both participation and participants in everything digital — the long tail of bits.
Now the same is happening to manufacturing — the long tail of things.
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Posts
- May 21, 13
http://au.businessinsider.com/wearable-technology-market-2013-5
- May 18, 13
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/03/26/naked-joe-knowles-nature-man-woods/print/
- Apr 03, 13
- Mar 12, 13
http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2012/10/avoiding-operating-at-capacity.html
- Feb 02, 13
- Jan 22, 13
codesoda: "you’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards for the technology." #stevejobs http://t.co/hoD7XjIq
