I’d like to announce a long overdue update to ThinkTwit that I have just released after having some time over the Jubilee weekend – so a few people owe thanks to her Highness 😉
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Author: Stephen Pickett
Stephen Pickett is a programmer, IT strategist and architect, project manager and business analyst, Oracle Service Cloud and telephony expert, information security specialist, all-round geek. He is currently Technical Director at Connect Assist, a social business that helps charities and public services improve quality, efficiency and customer engagement through the provision of helpline services and CRM systems.
Stephen is based in south Wales and attended Cardiff University to study Computer Science, in which he achieved a 2:1 grading. He has previously worked for Think Consulting Solutions, a leading voice on not-for-profit fundraising, Fujitsu Services and Sony Manufacturing UK as a software developer.
Stephen is the developer of ThinkTwit, a Wordpress plugin that allows you to display multiple Twitter feeds within a blog.
I recently ran in to an issue (I actually ran in to multiple issues*) when using the WebBrowser control in Visual Studio 2010, C# .Net Framework 4.0, whereby the embedded Internet Explorer browser was able to login to the website we were using for a project was not successfully tidying up after itself when closed.
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How to use Log4Net in C#
During a current project in work (one of many) I required a logging system for recording info and errors during operation so that I can easily and quickly debug the application when it is in service. As I was already aware of the extremely successful Log4j I decided to give its .Net counterpart a chance […]
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Minor ThinkTwit Update 1.3.2
I’ve just released a minor update to ThinkTwit which adds the current version of ThinkTwit to the database, for the purpose of making upgrades more smooth in future, along with storing a list of the names of each cache used to store tweets – this will also be helpful for upgrading and uninstallation in future […]
So anyone reading this regularly or just coming here to find out some update may be wondering why I’ve not posted for a while – work has been increasingly busy over the last year, so much so that my team has tripled since around May 2011. It’s very difficult to focus on your other interests […]
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ThinkTwit Update 1.3.1
I’ve released a very minor update yesterday that should get rid of the “file_get_contents” warning that appears for some users within the admin dashboard – when moving some of the methods in to the ThinkTwit class I forgot to make them static which obviously caused some confusion. Thanks to Sunny Chan and Amir Habibi for […]
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Thoughts on ThinkTwit improvements
For some time I’ve not been entirely happy with ThinkTwit upgrades – development on ThinkTwit started initially as an internal project for a past employer (Think Consulting Solutions). We had been wanting to contribute to Open Source for some time and this seemed like the perfect solution to both problems: Open Source the code I […]
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ThinkTwit Update 1.2.2
Have finally found to add another update to ThinkTwit – it’s been just over a month since the last release as I’ve had a lot on in work. I set down today to make 3 minor changes, one of which was in the FAQ, and ended up making 7 changes in total:
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ThinkTwit Update 1.2.1
Just released a minor ThinkTwit update (1.2.1). It basically includes some pieces I wanted to include in 1.2.0 but didn’t have time, as I like to update in discrete units and to finish them before taking a break – although this break was smaller than I intended, I got a bit bored :/ It just […]
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jQuery in WordPress Widgets admin pages
I’ve been struggling for a few days with trying to get jQuery working within the widgets part of the WordPress 3.2.1 admin pages. Even the most basic of tests does not seem to allow me to, for instance, append some text to a div, using: