Thu Tu’s Blog

Wordpress recently released version 2.2, and today I upgraded my blog. This new version addressed one of the two issues that bugged me recently. It no longer changes <embed> to <ibed>. However, it still changed div tags to p when I include code in my posts. I’ll just have to re-implement the changes I made [...]

I was having two irritating issues with the Wordpress editor, which affected my highslide and Google video code. It took a lot of research but I’ve finally figured out how to edit the code in the Tiny MCE file to make the editor stop acting like it’s smarter than me. The location of the file [...]

Google Summer of Code has released stats on women participation in this year’s GSoC. Only four percent of students in the program are women. Apparently, that’s twice the percentage of female representation in the open source world.
I guess it’s not surprising. In 2004, I was the first woman to be on the dev team for [...]

One of the issues I’ve had with Wordpress since the beginning is the way it handled code in my posts. Since I like to share code that I come up with, it is annoying when I post code and it gets mangled by Wordpress. It would parse it or half-heartedly format it properly. I tried [...]

As much as I love the functionality of the Google Blog Bar in my blog, there is a limitation. Since my code to add the Blog Bar uses the post’s category for the keyword search, if the category is something like “Miscellaneous Musings/Moments“, there will be no results because the Blog Bar searches through the [...]

I had trouble finding a good source of information on how to set up Google Custom Search Engine to replace the built-in search function of my Wordpress blog, so I’ll share some tips I eventually learned.
Custom Search Engine
First, you will need to create a custom search engine that shows results for your blog. Then try [...]

I’ve been wanting to be able to show related posts for each post and have found an answer in Google Blog Bar.
The Blog Bar is a Google AJAX Search API application that lets you easily add [...]