Allen Lew's Thoughts

I’ve changed OpenID plugins; Enabled Gravatars.

Allen L. — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:16:34 +0000

I’m now using the awesome WP-OpenID for OpenID authentication in the comments. Also, Gravatars are enabled.

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My Photos of Napa and Sergey featured

Allen L. — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:38:35 +0000

Even though I’m not a professional photographer, a couple of my photos were used in a couple of publications recently:

Openroad.tv is using my photo of the Napa River for their Napa River Adventures guide.
Schmap put my picture of Mumm Winery on their Napa Valley map.
My photo with Sergey Brin was used by The Park Record newspaper of Park City, Utah for a feature called 6 Degrees of Park City.

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Los Angeles Urban League Event Board

Allen L. — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:37:27 +0000

In a similar vain to the Job Board I built for the LA Urban League, I created an event board using Wordpress. The main plugins I’ve used are the Event Calendar for the event information and the Geopress plugin for locations.

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We Can Do This Video

Allen L. — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:00:02 +0000

So the Los Angeles Urban League, my employer, put together a celebratory video called “We Can Do This.” If it seems familiar, it’s probably because it resembles the Will.I.Am “Yes We Can Video“. They then showed this video at the big event called the Whitney Young Dinner last week. I was also asked to be in the video, though my part is only about a second (from the 2:36 mark). You may however recognize some of the people who have bigger parts in the video.

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Los Angeles Urban League Job Board

Allen L. — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:15:02 +0000

Inspired by Recruitpress, a job board made with Wordpress and a couple of packaged plugins, I’ve just deployed a job board for the Los Angeles Urban League. Basically, I’ve replaced the Secure Form Mailer Plugin For Wordpress, used to apply for this job section of each job post, with the cforms plugin, which I felt was a bit more customizable.

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Los Angeles Urban League Domestic Violence PSAs

Allen L. — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:57:03 +0000

The domestic violence program at my workplace, the Los Angeles Urban League, put together these Public Service Announcements (PSAs) for the public. They’ll be shown today at the Pan African Film Festival.

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Split First and Last Name into Seperate Columns in Excel.

Allen L. — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:27:07 +0000

If you have a First Name and Last Name in one column in Excel, here’s a tutorial on splitting them into two separate columns (without VB macros) from LauraJ’s blog. It involves using the Data to Text feature. Very handy.

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How many countries can you name in five minutes?

Allen L. — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:04:28 +0000

Started strong, but started blanking in the last minute.

(via Download Squad)

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Getting Flash to Work with Ubuntu 7.10

Allen L. — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:00:08 +0000

If you haven’t been able to install Adobe Flash Player on your Ubuntu 7.10 install, Jayson Joseph Chacko wrote an excellent post with a set of terminal commands to get Adobe Flash installed. Thanks Jayson.

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Check out GMU’s Center for History and New Media Web projects

Allen L. — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:23:35 +0000

George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media has been really putting out some great online academic tools. They’re the ones behind the Zotero research extension for Firefox. Now they are developing some software for web sites like Omeka, an open source content management system for museum collections and exhibits, and ScholarPress, plugins designed to make Wordpress more usable for college classes.

ScholarPress has two plugins right now, Courseware, for adding syllabi and assignments, and WPBook, a way of converting your Wordpress blog as a Facebook Application. The two developers, Jeremey Boggs and Dave Lester, also host a podcast called THAT podcast and have posted a tutorial on using the Scholarpress plugins along with an interview with Matt Mullenweg as the first episode. I certainly admire them for the impressive amount of work they have put in to all of these projects and look forward to trying their tools out in the future. (via Photo Matt)

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