Recently I had the good fortune of working with Brian Kaufmann at Tipping Media, who contracted me to do the programming end of the website for a program called 50 Ways 5o Days. My job was to convert Tipping Media’s design to a WordPress theme, write two custom plugins, and integrate Facebook Connect. Overall, this was a really fun project to work on- I got to do some pretty cool stuff.

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This month we look at the redesign of my personal blog and my first contribution to Theme Forest. Also, Manifest Development has a new number!

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This month we look at Burke Catholic High School, Manifest’s contributions to the open source community, plus information on a website/photography package, and how to stay updated all month long on Manifest Development news!

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Back in January I officially released my first WordPress plugin, Gloss. It’s a simple glossary management plugin. I worked on it for a few weeks after release and then let it go as my final semester of grad school got very busy. Today, I’m very happy to announce Gloss 0.5. In this version I made some small fixes and optimizations, as well as the ability to edit the name of an existing Glossary. But it’s with this release that I am also announcing Gloss 1.0, which will have some major updates, including:

• The ability to page glossaries by Letter
• Support for languages other than English
• The ability to link to terms
• Code refactoring and optimizations

You can look for that to be released late July/early August. If you have suggestions, or any code contributions, feel free to contact me. In the mean time, check out Gloss’s web page here, or  the official WordPress page.

A couple of weeks ago, when I officially launched the redesign, I mentioned the forthcoming release of a plugin I wrote for the redesign. Random Code Generator is that plugin. I needed a plugin that generated a random promotional code and stored it in a database. I’m currently using it on this site to manage various promotions and ‘prizes’ I have going on, to make sure people can get a code, but cannot use it twice. Here is the official description:
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