About Brendan

This author has not yet filled in any details.
So far Brendan has created 51 blog entries.
30 03, 2016

Social Aggregation

2016-03-30T15:48:56-07:00March 30th, 2016|Projects|

Social network aggregation is the process of collecting content from multiple social network services, such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. into one unified presentation. The task is often performed by a social network aggregator, which pulls together information into a single location, or helps a user consolidate multiple social networking profiles into one profile. [...]

28 03, 2016

I’m the Fommy

2016-03-28T16:39:48-07:00March 28th, 2016|Blog|

Well, close enough anyways. I'm the father that does the job of a "stereotypical" mother. Because why not? Why should the moms get all the fun? I'm the one who drops the kids off every morning, and picks them up every afternoon - the first face they see in the morning and the last they [...]

23 03, 2016

What I’ve Learned from Blogging Moms

2019-03-06T10:13:29-08:00March 23rd, 2016|Blog, WordPress|

I do a lot of different things - some of it web related, some of it IT, and a lot of it is complicated stuff. I recently helped a high school friend move her blog from wordpress.com to a self-hosted environment at bluehost. Parenting From The Heart was an easy one - not a ridiculous amount of [...]

4 03, 2016

How MainWP Saved my Chiropractor

2016-03-04T13:20:09-08:00March 4th, 2016|Blog|

Well, it saved his website anyways. I had done everything right, or at least so I thought – except the client had allowed their domain to be renewed without renewing their hosting. […]

3 03, 2016

Pulse

2016-03-03T20:55:42-08:00March 3rd, 2016|Projects|

I have been slowly working towards adding Pulse to Afterglow - think of it like a heartbeat, every so often it will re-check the server for updated media posts and automagically display them in the open feed. Real time updates you say? Yes. Yes they are. I'm going to have the Pulse controlled from another [...]

19 02, 2016

Import External Images

2016-02-19T16:30:01-08:00February 19th, 2016|Plugins|

One plugin I use pretty frequently for WordPress is Import External Images. It lets you copy and paste content into your site, then with a couple of clicks it will sideload all of the images in that post that are still linked to external sources. I modified the one on WordPress.org to work with Squarespace [...]

18 02, 2016

Milestones

2016-02-18T11:31:37-08:00February 18th, 2016|Blog, Projects|

So, I've been watching the registrations on transfermyemail.ca and find it interesting the countries that I'm seeing there. It has started being used in Argentina, the Philippines, Austria,  Nigeria, and the UK, apart from Canada and the USA.  The consistent story I hear with most users is that they're moving from an old/slow/bad host to something newer [...]

17 02, 2016

Adventures in VPS Land

2016-02-17T20:49:40-08:00February 17th, 2016|Blog|

So, 24 hours of using Virpus, and here's my review. I'll be frank here, I use Ramnode, love Ramnode, and have nothing but good things to say about them. I also use Cirrus Tech to host a Windows VPS. But I'm not one to put all of my eggs in one basket, especially with so [...]

15 02, 2016

TransferMyEmail

2016-02-17T21:02:08-08:00February 15th, 2016|Projects|

Made some changes to TransferMyEmail yesterday and today - basically I rewrote the parsing routine for folder structure and output of checkboxes. This was needed because originally I had been using "INBOX" as the root folder, which worked to a certain extent, but then had some feedback from Germany, where I found out "POSTEINGANG" could be used [...]

7 02, 2016

Afterglow

2016-02-17T21:02:17-08:00February 7th, 2016|Projects|

I have this social aggregation project I've been working on called AfterGlow, and it's not without its challenges, but tonight I did some work on it on a few areas that have been insufficient up until now. Instagram's API supports pagination, so I added support for that - full support too, so it will continue [...]

Go to Top