I am finally announcing my PlanetaryHours library for the Arduino. This library uses the sun_rise() and sun_set() functions from the avr-libc time.h library to calculate planetary hours.
Projects
OpenPGP for WordPress Now Supports Contact Form 7
OpenPGP Form Encryption for WordPress now supports Contact Form 7. You can download version 1.4.0 at the WordPress plugin site and start using a safer contact form on your website today!
Pono Rez WordPress Plugin
Together with Commerce Collective,1 we have built a WordPress plugin to allow Activities & Attractions Association of Hawaii (A3H) to quickly and easily integrate activity bookings and sales into their WordPress websites.
We still have more features to add to the plugin, but it’s a solid start that will save A3H members a lot of time. It is written in PHP2 and JavaScript, and uses the Pono Rez SOAP interface to integrate activity data into a WordPress page.
Check out the plugin page here!
CenturyLink AppFog Tutorial
Recently I wrote a tutorial with Word Lions for CenturyLink Cloud that teaches how to build and deploy a Node.js application to CenturyLink AppFog. The tutorial and application were really fun to build and write. It was my first Node.js project, and my first experience with CloudFoundry. The tutorial uses the following CenturyLink Cloud products:
AppFog is CenturyLink Cloud’s CloudFoundry system. It is really powerful, and it appears to be more flexible than Google App Engine.
Read the Tutorial
The tutorial walks you through building a document storage system with a built-in PDF reader and comment storage. It also includes user authentication and some other neat Node.js tricks. You can follow the tutorial from the following links, which will include all of the information needed to get you up and running on AppFog with Node.js. Enjoy!
New Release of OpenPGP for WordPress
Version 1.3.0 of the OpenPGP Form Encryption for WordPress plugin is now available. It’s important to upgrade. It includes the following changes.
- Updates OpenPGP.js to version 1.0.1
- Tests the plugin against WordPress 4.2.2
- Ensures that the browser can support OpenPGP.js
There are a few new features planned for this plugin. Expect a major version release in the next few months.
Check out the plugin page on the WordPress Plugin Repository.
Pansophie Online Color Test
The Pansophie PC testing interface.
- A private administrative interface
- Seamless jQuery-backed test interface with few pageloads
- Custom PDF reports, generated on the fly
- A customer database with contact information
- API endpoints for test generation
- Integration with 3rd party e-commerce system
Pansopie PC isn’t currently doing business.
Integrating Cedexis Radar with WordPress Sites
Cedexis Radar is a real user monitoring (RUM) system that collects millions of metrics every day. It’s used to measure the health of networks in order for Cedexis Openmix to make intelligent routing decisions for web service users.
I put together a simple plugin to add Cedexis Radar tracking codes to a WordPress website. I’m not yet sure how much of an overlap there is between WordPress users and Cedexis Openmix users, but if you’re using both, check out my new plugin.
Philalethes E-Bulletin Online Reader
I began working on the Philalethes E-Bulletin in the Fall of 2013, and published the first issue in January of 2014. The E-Bulletin is published quarterly in EPUB and MOBI formats.
It’s been a great learning experience. Not only have I learned a lot about editing, but I’ve really had to dive into how electronic publishing works. The intricacies of electronic book formats have become well-known to me.
The Philalethes Society isn’t entirely comfortable with modern technology, however. Most complaints about the E-Bulletin came from those who didn’t have e-book readers and weren’t comfortable installing software on their PC to handle a new file format. Because of this, I built an online e-book reader specifically for the E-Bulletin.
The online e-book reader is based around the excellent EPUB.js library, with additional backend code written in PHP.
Click here to visit the Philalethes E-Bulletin Online Reader.
Official Release of Libbucket 1.0.4
I’ve tagged version 1.0.4 of libbucket over on GitHub. You can download a tarball at this link. If you’d like to read more about libbucket, see my post from earlier this week.
Very handy edit:
You can download version 1.0.4 of libbucket and an OpenPGP signature here:
I never realized how much bucket clip-art existed.