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Installed Google Friend Connect WordPress Plugin

Thu Tu Koelling — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:16:40 +0000

Google just made the Google Friend Connect API available to developers. What made this interesting was that it would make it easier for site admins/developers to integrate Friend Connect into existing login systems. As a WordPress user, I was excited to see that there was a plugin for my blogging platform of choice. An added bonus [...]

Webmaster Tool: Find Sources of 404 Errors

Thu Tu Koelling — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:57:31 +0000

Thanks to Matt Cutts for the heads up on how to use Google Webmaster Tools to get more information on our websites’ 404 File Not Found errors. As the Google Webmaster Central Blog announced: Webmaster Tools shows Crawl error sources.

For those who have not used the diagnostic tools of Webmaster Central, one of the informative [...]

Coppermine in Google Summer of Code 2008

Thu Tu Koelling — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:03:41 +0000

For the second year in a row, Google accepted Coppermine to be a mentor organization in Google Summer of Code. Yay!

I am again going to be an organization administrator to coordinate Coppermine’s participation in the program. The student that I mentored last year not only continued to work with Coppermine, but signed up to [...]

Google Summer of Code Mentor Dinner

Thu Tu Koelling — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:39:32 +0000

As I mentioned before, some of the participants of Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit had dinner together the night before the “unconference” earlier this month.

When I volunteered to make dinner reservations due to my being a local, there were less than 10 people. By the time I was to make reservations earlier in [...]

Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit

Thu Tu Koelling — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:14:42 +0000

Yay! I will be going to Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit where I will get to meet some of the mentors and organization administrators of GSoC. What I look forward to in particular is meeting open source developers from other teams, and around the world. The only bummer is that I am the only [...]

Google Summer of Code 2007 Conclusion

Thu Tu Koelling — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:08:06 +0000

The 2007 edition of Google Summer of Code has come to an close. I’m happy to write that each of the four students who worked with Coppermine Photo Gallery have passed. Many thanks to the students for the work on improving Coppermine and hopefully it’s the beginning of not just their work with Coppermine but [...]

Firefox Extension: Search Everywhere

Thu Tu Koelling — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:39:34 +0000

Have you ever been at a web site and wanted to find something on it but couldn’t because the site either lacked search functionality or had a useless one? Did you want a tool to help in your predicament? Here’s one that I’ve found helpful: Search Everywhere by Paul Komarek. It was developed by a [...]

Camping and White Water Rafting Adventure

Thu Tu Koelling — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 06:29:37 +0000

Outdoor Slumber Party

Earlier this month, I went white water rafting with co-workers as part of a team outing. It was a lot of fun, along with some hard work.

The night before the rafting, we camped nearby to avoid having to do a 3 or 4 hour drive the morning of the rafting [...]

Reduce Duplicate Content in WordPress Archives with robots.txt

Thu Tu Koelling — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:18:02 +0000

My WordPress blog url structure for posts is of this pattern: /blog/year/month/date/post-title/

Ignoring the fact that a post could also show up in /blog/ and /blog/category/ and other places, the same post could show up in:

/blog/2007/

/blog/2007/07/

/blog/2007/07/21/

/blog/2007/07/21/post-title/

The duplication is not as big of a concern (to me) as the possibly poor [...]

Linked Custom Search Engines

Thu Tu Koelling — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:02:33 +0000

When I first learned of Linked Custom Search Engines from Google Co-op, I didn’t really get it. When I got the explanation, I then saw the potential.

Previously, to create a custom search engine, we needed to go into a control panel to give Google a list of sites we want it to show results [...]

Group Chat with Google Talk Gadget

Thu Tu Koelling — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:16:17 +0000

Finally… Google offers the ability to do group chat by way of the Google Talk Gadget. It’s not available with the client version of Google Talk, though.

To use it, start a conversation with a contact, click on Group Chat and select additional contacts.

To have concurrent group chats, even involving the same individuals, repeat [...]

How to Integrate Google Custom Search Engine Results into WordPress Blog Template

Thu Tu Koelling — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:35:33 +0000

I was checking out the control panel for my blog’s Google Custom Search Engine and saw something under the Code tab that I hadn’t noticed before: Search box and search results code for your website

I was intrigued at the thought of having the search results show up with my blog’s theme. After completing my [...]

How to Log into Google Groups with a Different Account Than Other Services

Thu Tu Koelling — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:20:21 +0000

I have an account that I use for my Google services like Gmail, iGoogle, etc. However, I want to use a different account for Google Groups. Since the sign-ins propagate to different services, I would get logged into the wrong account in the wrong service. Here’s how I’ve figured out to be able to log [...]

Seasonal Scape Spring Scene

Thu Tu Koelling — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:12:32 +0000

Back in March, I chose Seasonal Scape for the theme on my Google Personalized Homepage. All spring, I wondered when Google would update the scenery so that it would show a spring theme instead of a winter scene with a snowman. Since it is almost summer, and I was still seeing a snowman, I went [...]

Ranked #2 for [thu]

Thu Tu Koelling — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:41:58 +0000

Sweet! My blog ranks #2 for my first name, Thu, in Google. And it only took 9 years. Hopefully I don’t jinx myself by writing about this. BTW, my name is pronounced like ‘two’ so that’s why it’s punny that it is #2.

I’ve been using Google since 1998, when it was a student project [...]