shares Released WP Greet Box Version 4.2, http://ping.fm/EOe7F

Are You Ready to Deal With the U.S. Economic Crisis?

As you may know from my about page, I am a full-time software engineer working in a startup company of about 50 other people. To my surprise, eight of my close colleagues were laid off today. I shouldn’t have been that surprised given the current economic conditions, but it is still shocking to see some of my close friends leave without being able to shake their hands. (continue reading ... http://ping.fm/gBozH)

shares Released WP Greet Box version 3.1, http://ping.fm/5jsLR

Employees Versus Office Filled with Random Things

What’s a programming blog without office humor posts? A boring blog that nobody reads. That being said I would like to share a few office pranks pulled at my workplace (Coral8)....(continue reading...)

Programming for Halloween 2008

To get into the 2008 Halloween programming spirit, I would like to share an email my co-worker, Russell, sent me this morning. Here is what was in the email:

One of my friends down in LA likes to put on a "light show" every Halloween... of course l... (continue reading...)

Ways to Increase Visitor Activity on Your Blog

The goal of this post is to help you increase visitor activity on your blog. First let me define the term "activity" as anything your visitor does to interact with your blog. An activity can be a variety of things, but the ones I ... (continue reading...)

3 Web Design Mistakes That You May Need to Fix Right Now

In this post I will discuss some of the web design mistakes that I have done on this blog, and what I did to fix them.

A few months ago, I was fortunate enough to get free advice from a friend of mine, Emily Luong, … (continue reading…)

Released WP Greet Box version 3.0

I’ve been quiet for the past week for many reasons, but the most important reason is that I’ve been working on WP Greet Box version 3.0. It turned out that there we so many positive responses (and feature requests) on the WP Greet Box plugin…(continue reading…)

Weekend Links #3

Weekend Links for the week ending on 07-25-08

Enhanced Sidebars with Dynamic Content: Visitors tend to ignore the sidebar because most of sidebar content do not change. I've been experimenting with this myself and I was planning to write a similar post but Vande... (continue reading...)

WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your visitor depending on their referrer url. For example, when a Digg user clicks through from Digg, they will see a customizable message reminding them to digg your post if they like it. Another example, when a Google visitors clicks through from Google, they will see a customizable message suggesting them to subscribe to your feed if they like your content. Professional bloggers know that having these targeted suggestions on their blog increases their blog exposure and loyal readership. Best of all, this plugin is compatible with various WordPress cache plugins so you do not have to sacrifice speed. (continue reading...)

Weekend Links #2

Weekend Links for the week ending on 07-18-08

21 Ways to Make Your Blog or Website Sticky: All of us bloggers have experienced traffic spikes before from social network sites like StumbleUpon or Digg, but how... (continue reading...)

Upgraded to WordPress 2.6

WordPress 2.6 was officially released yesterday so I upgraded this blog immediately. Here are some things you need to know about WordPress 2.6:

New features in WordPress 2.6

Plugin authors should read over PlanetOzh's quick tutorial... (continue reading...)