November 15th, 2009 by Brandon Muramatsu
Here’s a cool tool for your website.
I’m using Google Viewer to embed a readable version of my Master’s thesis in my website. Google Viewer will let you embed a readable version of a Microsoft Word document, PowerPoint slideshow or TIFF file in a web page.
There is a plugin for WordPress but it doesn’t seem to place nice with the iNove theme that I use.
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AMA citation:
Muramatsu B. Google Viewer. Rocket Science. 2009. Available at: http://www.mura.org/2009/11/google-viewer/. Accessed March 10, 2010.
APA citation:
Muramatsu, Brandon. (2009). Google Viewer. Retrieved March 10, 2010, from Rocket Science Web site, http://www.mura.org/2009/11/google-viewer/
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November 11th, 2009 by Brandon Muramatsu
Everyone that runs their own WordPress blog (self-hosted) should probably install and run the Exploit Scanner plugin.
This plugin searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames.
For what it’s worth, v0.6 didn’t work for me, I had to use the development version.
Now if I can just figure out what all of the
decoration:none
links are all about.
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AMA citation:
Muramatsu B. WordPress Exploit Scanner. Rocket Science. 2009. Available at: http://www.mura.org/2009/11/wordpress-exploit-scanner/. Accessed March 10, 2010.
APA citation:
Muramatsu, Brandon. (2009). WordPress Exploit Scanner. Retrieved March 10, 2010, from Rocket Science Web site, http://www.mura.org/2009/11/wordpress-exploit-scanner/
For more information on this plugin, visit Academic Citations.
October 31st, 2009 by Brandon Muramatsu
Here’s an update to my previous two posts about The Technical Details and Blog Updates.
New plugins (or ones I forgot to list before):
- Dublin Core for Wordpress (embeds Dublin Core metadata in header)
- Enhanced Recent Posts (allows more control over Recent Posts widget)
- Exclude Pages from Navigation (lets me choose which pages to show/not show in the navigation)
- NextGEN Gallery (the defacto standard for Image Galleries for WordPress)
- Sociable (adds social media tools to each post such as Facebook and de.licio.us)
- Template Override (sneaky little plugin that lets me override the CSS of any of the other plugins, in other words this CSS loads last)
- WordPress Admin Bar (adds a top navigation bar to the admin areas of the blog to allow for actions like on WordPress.com hosted blogs)
- WPTuner (lets me see the performance of the blog for tuning purposes)
(Read more about the disabled and deleted plugins) Read more…
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AMA citation:
Muramatsu B. Blog Updates (October 2009). Rocket Science. 2009. Available at: http://www.mura.org/2009/10/blog-updates-october-2009/. Accessed March 10, 2010.
APA citation:
Muramatsu, Brandon. (2009). Blog Updates (October 2009). Retrieved March 10, 2010, from Rocket Science Web site, http://www.mura.org/2009/10/blog-updates-october-2009/
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August 19th, 2009 by Brandon Muramatsu
I ran into Philip Schatz at OpenEd 2009 in Vancouver. (I met Phil when he came out for the OER Interoperability Sprint we hosted at COSL.)
Phil’s doing a NSF fellowship with Connexions at Rice University. Recently, he helped release a really cool feature for Connexions: MathML editing.
From Connexions’ Blog,
Now you can generate semantically-correct Content MathML on-the-fly and paste it into your Connexions module.
But wait, it gets better. When talking with Phil, he says the feature works as a plugin for the Kupu editor. And, he thinks that he can get it working within Wordpress!
Woohoo. Semantically marked-up Math for Wordpress. (Aside, my previous posts discussed LaTeX display in Wordpress.)
(Phil is on a short holiday, but promised me he’d let me know when he had it working!)
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AMA citation:
Muramatsu B. Math in Webpages, Part 2.5. Rocket Science. 2009. Available at: http://www.mura.org/2009/08/math-in-webpages-part-2-5/. Accessed March 10, 2010.
APA citation:
Muramatsu, Brandon. (2009). Math in Webpages, Part 2.5. Retrieved March 10, 2010, from Rocket Science Web site, http://www.mura.org/2009/08/math-in-webpages-part-2-5/
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July 26th, 2009 by Brandon Muramatsu
Hi all, I just updated the underlying blog infrastructure. So here’s an update to my original post about The Technical Details.
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Muramatsu B. Blog Updates. Rocket Science. 2009. Available at: http://www.mura.org/2009/07/blog-updates/. Accessed March 10, 2010.
APA citation:
Muramatsu, Brandon. (2009). Blog Updates. Retrieved March 10, 2010, from Rocket Science Web site, http://www.mura.org/2009/07/blog-updates/
For more information on this plugin, visit Academic Citations.
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