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Link Roundup 2011-09-10

Ben Hamilton — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:39:45 +0000

Link roundup of what I’ve just read that I feel is worthy of a mention: #

Mike Schneider and Aaron Strout guest post on Logic+Emotion: Location-Based Marketing: What’s in it for Me? #
Wayne Schulz has two posts: You’d Have To Be Crazy To Ignore Email Newsletters and Use Boilerplate Replies To Pre-Qualify. #
James Huff writes Ten WordPress Features That You May Have Missed. #

Glanced at…

Ben Hamilton — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:56:42 +0000

Two quick things: #

Winerlinks – Add Dave Winer style paragraph # marks to your WordPress.
Evernote 4.x is up for download on their site.

I’ve oft thought about Dave Winers hash marks, which contain a permalink to each paragraph in his blog posts. Now, Daniel Bachhuber has made a WordPress plugin that does it automagically for you. #

And of course, Evernote, now in version 4, my third favorite application, after the command prompt and ACT!. #

Setting up WriteMonkey on WordPress

Ben Hamilton — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:15:03 +0000

This post has been written using [WriteMonkey](http://writemonkey.com/ “Zenware for full screen distraction free writing”) as the text editor. Not only that but I’ve utilised Markdown as the method of text mark-up. All of this has been achieved using WordPress as my CMS, Firefox as my browser and a Firefox plug-in called It’s All Text. #

My first impressions are actually good. Although its taken a little setup, I’m actually happy with the result. You see, using WriteMonkey as a text editor is, well, gorgeous. The screen is emptied of all distractions. With typewriter mode enabled, it is a pure joy to use. #

Now to get this to work I did the following: #

+ [disabled the visual editor](http://digwp.com/2010/06/blogging-in-markdown/ “Article by Chris Coyier on blogging in WordPress with Markdown”) in [WordPress](http://wordpress.org “The official WordPress site”),
+ installed the [It's All Text](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125/contribute/roadblock/?src=addondetail “Firefox add-on page for It’s All Text”) Firefox plug-in,
+ installed the [PHP Markdown](http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/ “Download page for PHP Markdown”) [plug-in for WordPress](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/160189 “Help getting Markdown working in WordPress”),
+ started writing :) #

Not so hard is it? Actually the writing bit is the hardest. But you knew that… #

What it now means is that when I begin writing a new post in WordPress, I simple click the little edit button that appears, and WriteMonkey fires up, comes to the foreground and I start writing. To finish up, I press CTRL-Q and I click YES I do want to save it. #

So I can whole-heartedly say that it’s worth the effort to setup [WriteMonkey](http://writemonkey.com/ “Zenware for full screen distraction free writing”). Go do it! It feels good. #

Of course, now the hard bit is about to start, that is, do more writing. #

PS: Only found out about WriteMonkey via [DownloadSquad](http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/07/23/writemonkey-0-9-9-0-final-version-released-full-screen-text-lov/ “These guys are on the bleeding edge of shiny”) #

Painless upgrade to WordPress 2.5

Ben Hamilton — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:20:30 +0000

Just did yet another painless upgrade to WordPress, which is the software that powers this web site. #

It is now running version 2.5 quite happily. What made this upgrade different was the fact that I did it from my laptop running Ubuntu 7.10. #

Every other upgrade I’ve done from a Windows platform, using the FTP tool I’ve been familiar with, FileZilla. #

In under a minute, FileZilla was installed and my favorite FTP tool was running just like it does on my Windows laptop. Yay! I just love how easy it is to install most things with Ubuntu. #