May 4 2007
wakoopa widget - v0.1
what is wakoopa? find out for yourself here.
the quick and dirty is that it is a social community based around sharing what software you use. i think the idea is pretty neat and i can only hope their recommendation algorithm is solid. :] i’ve written a widget to display your “top 10 list” on a wordpress-driven blog.
the widget can currently either display your list in image form or in a plain text format.
My top 10 software
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enjoy!
Brian says:
May 4th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
So you’re finally using Dvorak, eh?
Keith says:
May 4th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
haha, yeah. switched last year actually.
Brian says:
May 6th, 2007 at 11:17 am
Hah! after all those years, you finally gave in to the temptation :) It’s pretty sweet isn’t it?
ps: If you use ‘google’ as a verb at Yahoo!, will they fire you?
Keith says:
May 6th, 2007 at 11:34 am
heh, yeah dealing with your computer last year at quakecon reminded me about it. that first week at work sucked but i got used to it pretty quickly.
lol, i’ll have to watch myself on that one. i hope not, b/c being in SF with no job is not on my todo list.
Keith says:
May 10th, 2007 at 9:50 am
so it looks like i’ll be adding some caching code to this in the future so that
1. doesn’t wait on the wakoopa server every page load
2. if wakoopa is down for maintenance (aka right now hence this post), the cached image can still show
look for v0.2 soon.
Derek says:
May 18th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Keith,
Cool widget! Not sure if I am doing something wrong or because I just upgrade to WP 2.2, but I can’t get my username info to stay in the widget. I put it in, close, save and then check my homepage but it always says “Please enter your wakoopa username”
Thanks,
Derek
p.s. Good luck in SF
Keith says:
May 18th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
hm, i upgraded to 2.2 yesterday and just checked changing my username in the widget and it seems to work fine.
after you click save changes on the widget screen, what happens if you open back up the control for the widget? is the name field blank?
Derek says:
May 21st, 2007 at 9:00 am
Weird…now that I try it again it wants to work. Maybe something hanging up in the upgrade? Anyways, thanks for the feedback.
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