February 2008 Archives

Snaptweet

So Damon Clinkscales (a guy I work with) has put together this nifty little app called SnapTweet that integrates with Twitter and Flickr. Check it out, it’s pretty neat-o.

BTW:

Me on twitter
Me on flickr
Me on snaptweet

Posted by Phil Burrows on Feb 26, 2008

...and we're back

So posting to this thing has proven to be less frequent than I had hoped, but I’m here to say that [hopefully] it should become more of a routine. I’m going to make myself do it.

So there are a few things I’ve been meaning to document. Like I said in my first post, I did a custom Radiant CMS for vitalsource.com, although I didn’t do the design on that site, I just ported over the content to the new CMS. Anyway, I put together a few custom extensions for the site. They may be useful for one of your project, and if so, feel free to use them as you wish. I’d love to know if you find them useful and how you’ve implemented them on your site. Keep reading for an overview of the two handy extensions: Translator and RegexpURLs.

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Posted by Phil Burrows on Feb 21, 2008

The First of [Hopefully] Many

I've been doing quite a bit of work in Radiant lately at my job as I've moved the VitalSource homepage to the Radiant CMS. Coming from Sitellite, Radiant has been a breath of fresh air. Very clean, very extensible, very intuitively designed. The guys at Wiseheart Design deserve a beer (Foamee anyone?). Since I got a chance to kick the tires of the Radiant car, I figured I would put the newfound knowledge and experience to some use and finally get this blog off the ground. So, consider this the beginning of something big. I've got quite a few things I'd like to write about over the coming weeks (namely, some Radiant extensions that I wrote that I feel could be really useful to others).

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Posted by Phil Burrows on Feb 13, 2008