http://supergeekery.com/geekblog/ musings at the intersection of technology, marketing + pop culture en john@johnfmorton.com Copyright 2012 2012-05-19T15:21:17+00:00 http://supergeekery.com/geekblog/comments/facebooks_unimpressive_opening_day_bodes_well_for_the_facebook_platform http://supergeekery.com/geekblog/comments/facebooks_unimpressive_opening_day_bodes_well_for_the_facebook_platform Dev, Geekery, Social Media, 2012-05-19T15:21:17+00:00 http://supergeekery.com/geekblog/comments/lessons_learned_in_expressionengine_add_on_development http://supergeekery.com/geekblog/comments/lessons_learned_in_expressionengine_add_on_development Pic Puller and it helps an ExpressionEngine developer create and integrate an Instagram application into his or her site. This post isn’t meant to get you to go buy a copy of the Pic Puller add-on. (Granted, I won’t stop you either.) Rather, it’s a personal journal of my process of making it and what I’ve learned along the way. It may be a bit rambling, but it’s the story of how I ended up where I...]]> #eecms, Dev, How To, Software, 2012-03-05T12:25:05+00:00 http://supergeekery.com/geekblog/comments/expression_engine_2_plugin_empty_p_stripper http://supergeekery.com/geekblog/comments/expression_engine_2_plugin_empty_p_stripper WYGWAM to give your client’s text entry into an Expression Engine textfield a little UX love. WYGWAM’s a good tool that I’ve used several times on sites. Clients find it an easy thing to pick up. For a recent build though, I kept noticing some strange spacing when my client was using it to create copy. There were empty P tag pairs scattered throughout the copy. I tried tweaking the...]]> #eecms, Dev, Software, 2012-01-11T18:39:10+00:00 http://supergeekery.com/geekblog/comments/expression_engine_addon_conditional_trunchhtml http://supergeekery.com/geekblog/comments/expression_engine_addon_conditional_trunchhtml Expression Engine site recently where I needed to truncate some HTML to fit within a certain sized space. I've done similar truncations tasks before, right here on the SuperGeekery home page, with Oliver Heine's handy TruncHTML. I use it in combination with my own SuperGeekery Tagstripper to selectively strip out some of the HTML tags. (On a side note, it looks like Hacksaw has now combined these functions to some extent into a single plugin.) Unfortunately I couldn't...]]> #eecms, Dev, How To, 2011-11-06T11:53:27+00:00 http://supergeekery.com/geekblog/comments/setting_facebook_status_with_flash_version_3 http://supergeekery.com/geekblog/comments/setting_facebook_status_with_flash_version_3 Dev, Social Media, 2011-07-13T19:59:31+00:00