Category Archives: technology

Consolidating domains

For a while now, I’ve had two different personal websites. I have my personal blog at willnorris.com, which you’re reading now. And I also have my “identity site” at will.norris.name, which includes my hcard, activity stream, contact list, and a list of my profiles on various websites. I’ve also used this identity site […]

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WordPress OpenID v3.0

I’m happy to announce that version 3.0 of the WordPress OpenID plugin is now available. As previously mentioned, there are a lot of new features in this release:

OpenID Provider - Specific user roles can be given the capability of using the built-in OpenID provider, turning their author posts URL into a valid OpenID which […]

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WordPress MU in a development environment

Most of the development I do for my job is within WordPress, so I have quite a few WordPress instances running on my local workstation. I’ve been using the same custom Apache setup for three years, and have been developing on WordPress for almost as long, so I’ve been a bit bewildered with the […]

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tr.im python script (for Mac)

For a while I have been using a simple AppleScript script to convert URLs into shortened URLs. The flow goes something like:

Initiate script from Quicksilver Grab URL from the front-most window in Safari Submit URL to URL shortening service (previously xrl.us, but more recently bit.ly) Copy shortened URL to system clipboard (for pasting into Twitterific) Notify of process […]

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Providing and Delegating OpenIDs

The [next major release][] of wp-openid includes a built-in OpenID provider and delegation engine. This will certainly be the most exciting feature of this release for most people, so let me explain a bit how it works. Each authorized user on the WordPress blog will have an OpenID at the author posts URL […]

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