corprewland

Hey folks, I’ve been working on a couple iPhone applications recently, and things are at the point where I could use a couple beta users. If you’re interested in any of these, let me know by commenting or emailing me — email temp200911@corprew.org. You can also use the contact page at corprew.org.

• I’m looking for some users for App A, and it would help if you lived in the Seattle or Portland area and had Celiac disease for this one to be helpful for you (and for you to provide useful data for me.)
• I’m looking for some users for App B, mostly for people who travel a lot. If you’re traveling by air this holiday season, you’re welcome to give it a shot.
• I’m also testing a game for the iPhone. For this, it would be handy if you lived in the Capitol Hill region of Seattle and liked fun. As strange as it seems, some people don’t like fun. This should be fun.

All of these are useful and/or fun. Android versions will be coming relatively soon after the iPhone versions, ideally.

Drupal has a module for doing SOA that is about to be available in αlpha release.

This is a trivial something that seems to come up staggeringly often when translating design to implementation in word press sites, so I thought I’d post it up here so I don’t have to recreate from scratch next time I need it.

So, you have a long, carefully contrived, SEO-friendly title for your pages (or really just a minimally descriptive one), but you don’t want that to show up in the navigation menus. There are a variety of complex ways to fix this, but one of the easiest is to use code like the following:

< ?php 
    $pages = get_pages("parent=0"); # returns parent pages
      foreach ($pages as $x_page) {
        $option = '<li><a href="'.get_page_link($x_page->ID).'">';
        $short_title = "";
        $short_title = get_post_meta($x_page ->ID, "nav_title", TRUE);
        if ($short_title == "")
                $option .= $x_page->post_title;
        else
                $option .= $short_title;
        end;
        $option .= '</a>';
        echo $option;
  }
 ?>

This usually ends up in header.php, and is a good patch for the problem. There are a couple of plugins that attempt to work around this by detecting whether or not you’re in the loop (the loop being the name for the main part of post/page printing), but invariably widgets screw this up somehow, and this solution seems to work a bit better for me, especially for a navigation header (hence the name.)