In this tutorial, I will show you the basics of creating a simple Wordpress plugin. After completing it, you will have the knowledge to expand upon it and create your own Wordpress plugins.

With the explosion of Twitter and such services, the need to have long URLs shortened has drastically increased. Naturally, many services to shorten URLs have sprung up as well.

Recently, I had to write a PHP class to work with URL shorteners. So, I made it support multiple shortening services and have decided to share it with you.j,

The publishing that I’m writing the book for is having a huge Friday the 13th sale. They are offering a $13 discount on all of their books. For those of you who don’t know, Manning publishes all of the “In Action” books.

As you may know, I am the developer of the site FreshApps.com. One thing we had been doing to make some extra money is to use Linkshare to be an affiliate for Apple.

iPhone In Action 2nd Edition

Manning Publishing has started their MEAP (Manning Early Access Program) for the book I am working on. What this means for you is FREE DOWNLOADS. There is currently only one chapter available, but there will be more as the book progresses.

If you are a serious blogger (and I’m sure you are), you probably track your RSS subscribers with FeedBurner. If you don’t, you should be. One thing that has always bugged me about FeedBurner is if you ever wanted to display the number of subscribers on your blog, you were stuck using their image.

This is part 2 in our series about creating a Twitter client in Objective-C. In case you missed it, here is a link to part 1 of this series. In the last tutorial I showed you how to retrieve data from Twitter and display the XML in the Console. Today, we will be focusing on sending messages to Twitter via POST. We will be implementing the code to update our Twitter status. So let’s just dig right in.Open up TwitterRequest.h and add the following code (Click the image to enlarge).We have added two properties.

If you have ever coded Java, you know how important the toString() method is. Well, objective-c has a similar method called Description. What overriding the description will allow you to do is, customize the output when you want to print your object.
Let’s take an example where you might have a class called User that contains a few properties.

So with all of the buzz and hoopla about Twitter lately, I thought I would start a tutorial series demonstrating how to create a simple Twitter client for the Mac.  I will be showing you how to use Objective-C to connect to Twitter, login, get and post tweets.
In the first part of this series, we [...]

If there are two things I love on the intenets, they are Wordpress and Twitter.  Recently there have been many plugins developed to integrate the two.  Mainly, updating your Twitter from your blog or vice-versa.  But the question is, do these benefit one another?
Does your Twitter send traffic to your Wordpress blog or your Wordpress [...]