http://cjyabraham.com Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:11:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Problem If you go to a post on streetsblog.org, type in a beautifully written comment, fill in the rest of the fields including 5+7 is, um, 13 and hit "Post", you get "Error: You have entered the wrong sum in the spam protection field..."  Damn!  So you hit Back and ... http://cjyabraham.com/blog/2009/11/27/browser-cacheing/ Who knew there are over 3000 block parties in New York City each summer?  Well, we've just launched BlockPartyNYC.org to be the go-to site for everything block party.  Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock and myself have been working on this site over the last few months in partnership with Transportation Alternatives.  It ... http://cjyabraham.com/blog/2009/06/17/block-party-nyc-site-launched/ I have just released version 0.2 of the WordPress Comment Geo Maps plugin.  I'd like to also announce that it is now being used in production on GothamSchools.org.  Version 0.2 has a bunch of general improvements and bug fixes.  I have moved the project page for the plugin to its ... http://cjyabraham.com/blog/2009/06/05/comment-geo-maps-v02-released/ Over the last couple of weeks I developed a plugin that allows Wordpress comments to be geo-located on a map to enable geo-based conversations.  Today I have released version 0.1.  The idea for this came from Nick Grossman.  See the Comment Geo Maps plugin page for comments and suggestions. http://cjyabraham.com/blog/2009/05/08/comment-geo-maps-v01-released/ At the South by Southwest Interactive conference this past weekend I attended a number of sessions that dealt with the sociological effects of our new suite of social networking tools including twitter, facebook, online dating sites, blogs, and news and tech forums.  At each talk during the five-day conference, a ... http://cjyabraham.com/blog/2009/03/19/you-just-dont-get-twitter/ Today I released a new version of the Top Post from Category plugin, v.0.3.  This widget is now a multi-widget, that is, it is built to allow multiple instances of itself on a single sidebar, each serving the top post of a different category.  This feature had been requested a ... http://cjyabraham.com/blog/2009/03/11/top-post-from-category-v03-plugin-released/ Since my last post on this, I have made a few tweaks to GothamSchools.org to try and further improve its rankings on Google: I changed the wording on the About page to use "NYC schools" instead of "the nation's largest school district" I similarly changed the wording of the welcome message on ... http://cjyabraham.com/blog/2009/02/20/seo-at-gothamschools-continued/ Last year a few of us here at TOPP built BlockPartyNYC.  This project was done for Transportation Alternatives, mainly to promote their party sponsorship program.  A sponsored block party received consulting on solutions to community problems like traffic, speeding, and noise and air pollution. For this year of block parties in ... http://cjyabraham.com/blog/2009/02/05/blockpartynyc-2009/ This release removes the dependency on the excerpt reloaded plugin and fixes the "more" tag which used to disappear when you overrode the excerpt.  For more information and to leave comments, go here. http://cjyabraham.com/blog/2009/01/14/top-post-from-category-v02-plugin-released/ The initial research into Search Engine Optimization of GothamSchools.org was discussed in this post.  Since then, I have made some changes to the site: I changed the <title> tag on the home page of the site to read "GothamSchools - Breaking News and Analysis of the NYC Public Schools" I changed the ... http://cjyabraham.com/blog/2009/01/10/seo-developments-on-gothamschoolsorg/