Install, Configure & Running Memcache in Windows as Service
Installing memcache server in windows is a little bit complicated compared to how it can be done in *nix since theres not yet available ready to use package for win32.
Luckily i found the compiled memcached for win32 (exe) which was made by jellycan, within this exe file you can install configure and running memcached as a service in your windows environment, here are how i made it:
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Newer version available at northscale, thanks to Matt Ingenthron for pointing this.
DynamicWP Image Cube WordPress Plugin
DinamicWP Image Cube is a free plugins for wordpress which will turn your selected images into a 3D image cube slideshow. This plugin will randomly show your image with beautiful fadein/fadeout 3D cube effects.
Released under GPL License means you can use it for all your project or at least use it as a foundation for your next projects for free and without any restrictions.
New WordPress 3.0 API menu_page_url
Peter Westwood one of the lead developers of wordpress has introduced a new API method in wordpress 3.0 api which will help the plugin developers easily get the url of the plugin page.
Example of implementation:
add_options_page('Best Evar Menu', 'Best Evar Menu', 'manage_options', 'best_evar_menu', 'best_evar_options_page');
menu_page_url( 'best_evar_menu' );
The function will by default echo the url out but if you want you can get it returned for processing by setting the second argument to false.
Reference: WP Track #13829
WordPress 3.0 Custom Taxonomy
Justin Tadlock has written a new article about new wordpress 3.0 custom taxonomy features as and update to his old article about how to create & implement custom taxonomy in wordpress (wordpress 2.8).
As usual he wrote it in detail with deep explanation about the taxonomy object and API function including the parameters, so if you want to dive more into new wordpress 3.0 capability esp. about new custom taxonomy features this article is “a must read” also good start if you jump from his old article which includes the real example in using wordpress custom taxonomy, in which will help you to easily understanding the new custom taxonomy how to’s
JQuery DataGrid Plugin Compass
Compass DataGrid is yet another DataGrid plugin for jQuery with ajax-driven data support, it takes empty table and manipulate it based on JSON encoded data returned by the server side code.
JQuery Compass DataGrid has support for pagination and show/hide column also has many presentation options like: row hover styling, sorting, stripping, resizable, parameter filter etc.
Download & Demo could be found here
taste good anyway.
