Author Archives: admin
Republish a feed (or other data) protected by HTTP basic access authentication
Some services let you access or download data on a url that is protected by username and password-popup, or “basic access authentication“, for example your twitter replies at http://twitter.com/statuses/replies.rss …: … or your bloglines subscriptions in opml format at http://rpc.bloglines.com/listsubs … Continue reading
Gregarius plugin: do not aggregate yourself (when aggregating search feeds)
Yesterday evening I knocked together this “Paola246“ aggregator site. Paola246 aka Paolavdb is the Flemish version of “Lonelygirl15“: a fictitious online persona posing as real. “Paola” tried to tap into social media so systematically (starting a Twitter, Flickr, Youtube and a few blog accounts in one day ), … Continue reading
FCKeditor extension for Vanilla: long URLs don’t work
The FCKeditor extension for Vanilla is a great plugin that (obviously) enables the FCK editor for forum posts, including an easy way to posts videos from the major online video sites (Youtube, Google Video…). There’s one issue however I’ve been … Continue reading
Adding a tab to your Vanilla Menu – the AddGabblyToMenu Extension as an example
Gabbly is a service with which you can transform any web page to a chat box – simply by prefixing the web page with http://gabbly.com/. There are lots of situations where this can be handy - in my case, I was asked to create … Continue reading
My favourite Vanilla extensions
For the Second Life discussion site, I’ve used: Account Pictures This extension will allow your users to upload their icon and picture and store it on your server. You’ll have to create an upload directory and make it writeable. Also, … Continue reading
PHP forum software: phpBB, BBpress or Vanilla?
I was searching for bulletinboard/forum software for a a Second life forum that was: easy to set up easy to maintain, in the sense that I didn’t want to develop basic functionality myself had a sufficiently large community BBpress themes … Continue reading
Avoiding phpBB registration spam
Online marketing report boosts a phpBB registration bot – a tool that will register a user on a phpBB forum, in order to drop a link in the user profile. Since phpBB doesn’t put a nofollow tag on a profile … Continue reading
Inline Flash Player mod for PhpBB
- based on… player… youtube… other inline players: list, also list to playlist thingies