Today I am releasing a wordpress plugin which allows you to add microformat compliant resume to your wordpress blogs.

This version of the plugin is 100% compliant to hresume format.

This plugin uses NO extra DIV's or HTML tags to format the view of the resume in the browser.

You can see the plugin in action here.

Every formatting is done using style sheet, hence keeping the resume code untouched.

Installation:

1. Download the .zip file, Unzip and upload the wp-resume folder to your wordpress 'plugins' directory.
2. Activate the plugin.
3. Go to, 'Options tab.' Here you will see a subtab called 'Configure Resume'. Click that to edit the contents of your resume.
4. Create a new page, give it some title and add this code in the body of the page: <!--myresume-->

Thats it, now you should be able to view your resume on this newly created 'Page'.

Will like to get some views on this.

Update: August 7th 2006
Latest fixes

1. Added an admin feature to select 'US' or 'Other' address format.
2. Resolved a IE bug. (there was some layout issue).

Thanks everyone for testing it and sending in your feedbacks. Keep them coming :).

Download here: Microformat Resume Plugin.

I have recently started using GMAIL as my pop-mail spam filter and its working great so far.

I used to check my pop-mails through web based system. I decided to centralise all of this and just use GMAIL. I feel GMAIL has a better SPAM filtering logic, and secondly I wanted to centralise all my emails.

The way I went about is, for my pop-mail, I went to the "C-Panel" and added a filter to sent all mails to 'something@mydomain.com' (an existing email adderss) to 'test@mydomain.com' (a non existing email address)

Then I created a "FORWARDER" to send all email coming to 'test@mydomain.com' to 'my_gmail_address@gmail.com'

Now, in my GMAIL account, I created a "LABEL" to identify these emails and added a "FILTER" such that all email where "TO: contains something@mydomain.com" should be 'applied the newly created label' and should 'skip inbox'.

This works like a charm for me.

1. I check all my emails at one place.
2. Storage capacity is not a problem as emails stay only in GMAIL box. Even if you own a 5MB webspace, no need to worry
3. Even if your domain expires (for those lazy people like me), you still retain all your old emails.
4. Take advantage of Googles Spam Filter.
5. Probably many more advantages I havent figured out yet...

Most often in print media, one sees multi column layouts where the text overflows from one column to another.In flash, there is no way of connecting two dynamic text fields such that when you reach the end of the first column, the text automatically overflows to another columns (this is a very common feature in most of the print publishing softwares.)I recently came across a situation where I had to display such multi column text which overflows to another text field.I figured out a quick sollution, not sure if its the best way to do it.Heres what I did:Step-1:Create a vertical column of Dynamic text field, give it instance name 'myTXT'Step-1:Create another vertical column of Dynamic text field to the right side of the first one and name it 'myTXT1'Step-3:Dynamically load large piece of text in the first column 'myTXT' (for this example I am hard coding the text here): Step-4:Copy the same text to the other column like this: In most cases, the right side column will not be filled completely with text, it will be the residue of the first column.If the lines of text in second column are less then the total lines it can accomodate, the split will not be correct.To overcome this, lets add some extra breaks in the second column: Step-5:Last step is to move the scroll position of the second column text: Thats it, you should be ready to enjoy!!Download 2 column exampleDownload 3 column example---------------------------Update : 22 Jun' 2006---------------------------The above code works fine when the content in the first column is surely going to overflow to the second column.BUT, when the content in the first column is less, you get two columns with same content in both of them.Now thats not what we would like, right?So, here is a slight modification to the code posted earlier.To avoid situation like the one mentioned above, we will do one check. That is, we will populate the second column only when the first columns overflows.

Thanks to Paul Duquesnoy for contributing this modification.

If lately you have been playing the Da Vinci Code Quest on Google, you must be answering some questions at the end of each puzzle.

I recently came across a situation where a right answer was not accepted strangely.

After I completed a "Symbol" puzzle, it asked me this question:

"How much is 2905 didot points in Inches?"

When I typed in "42.9999727", it said "Sorry, wrong answer"
hint: Try searching Google for "2905 didot points to inches" and see the result.

When I typed "43", it accepted

Why????

Today its a post not related to Flash but vereymuch related to where i live, INDIA.

Watch this ...while it is still on their archives.
Listen to Friedman's signoff line at the end.

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=1674437

Recently I have created a sourceforge project for my Flash-Blog. I decided to put the blog as an open source project.

I think this will help the further development and refinement of this work that I have started.

Currently I am preparing the documentation and cleaning up old stuff to make available for download.

An update on the developments:

1. I have made the blog compatible with Wordpress 2.0
2. I have also removed the need for modifying the core files by creating a wordpress plugin.
3. A new logo has been designed which can be seen on the homepage of flash-blog. (still under construction)

If anyone is interested in joining hands, do let me know.

Strange to see that such a simple thing can cause you so much trouble.

I have been discussing this at chattyfig and still trying to get a solution to this.

I have recently created a Flash Frontend for this blog. In some of my posts, I have myltiple images displayed in a single post.

Now, I excepected these images to show up properly in my flash blog. But they don't.

If you notice, I have two images, one below another, just seperated by a <p><br /> tag.

The IMG tag for HTMLTEXT has very limited optios for me. I tried using all of them, HSPACE / VSPACE / <p> / <br /> / <p><br /> .... nothing works.

The only option left was to add some text between the images.

Now thats also not easy.

When I place the text, the text is LEFT or RIGHT aligned to the image because there is no option for CENTER aligning a image in HTMLTEXT.

This is getting me crazy.

UPDATE (27th Nov. 2005):

The Flash Blog is on display.
Click the FlashBlog link in the left bar.

note:

1. Commentting is not working properly at the moment.Its working now.
2. You can explore rest of it.
3. Best viewed with FireFox.
4. If you want to comment about it, drop in a comment on this post.

Features:

1. Completely powered by Wordpress.
2. Commentting and Searching fully integrated.
3. Email validation using PHP
4. Two versions available, AS 1.0 and As 2.0
5. AS 1.0 version is using XMLSA
6. AS 2.0 version is using XPATH API

This time around, I am working on creating a complete Flash Interface for Wordpress.

Work is in progress and I should be ready to show the piece soon.

This has involved modifying some core 'Include' files and creating a complete 'Theme' file set and ofcourse the Flash Frontend.

The intension is to create both AS 1.0 and AS 2.0 compatible (two seperate versions). AS 1.0 is in progress and some work on AS 2.0 has started as well.

Almost all features on a standard blog will be available: Commenting & Searching included.

Coming soon

Today I successfully completed my first Wordpress Plugin.

This plugin adds a FLASH quicktag to the post window in the wordpress admin section.

Features:

1. Adds a quicktag for adding FLASH .swf files
2. When clicked, it prompts you to add: File Path, Width, Height and BG color of your flash movie.
3. The Flash code added by the plugin is valid XHTML.

Installation:

1. Extract the files to your computer.
2. A "flqt" folder will be created with two files : flash_quicktag.php and needplugin.gif
3. Upload this "flqt" folder to your plugins folder inside the wordpress installation:
   Default location is : yoursite/wp-content/plugins
4. After uploading the files, login to your wordpress admin panel and activate the plugin.
5. Now go to the POST page and you should see a new button added called FLASH.

To do's:

1. Adding a custom form to fill these details instead of prompts.
2. Integrating a File Upload script, so that the user can select the file from their local hard drives.

Feature requests:
Please feel free to contact me using preferably comments or else the contact form about any feature requests.

Download:
Flash Quicktag Plugin (updated: 31 Oct 2005)

note: Due to few people reporting some problem, I have changed the name of the function so that it does not clash with some other plugin which might be using same function name. Atleast I think that is the reason why some people are not able to view the Quicktag.

Can you try this new download and let me know if this works fine?.