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Xavin’s Review Ratings Released

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

My second WordPress plugin, Xavin’s Review Ratings, was released today, and it is much more complicated and useful than my plugin for listing pages. It allows you to use a shortcode to easily add ratings to your pages that look like this:
There are a ton of options and full documentation on the plugin page.

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Vista Search Crash Resolved

Monday, September 29th, 2008

I have been using Vista on my work machine for the last six months, and have generally been happy with it. The only big problem I have had was that the Start Menu search, which is one of Vista’s best new features, would seemingly randomly crash explorer.exe. I finally got tired of this and decided [...]

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Xavin’s List Subpages Released

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

I released my first WordPress plugin today, Xavin’s List Subpages. It’s a fairly simple shortcode wrapper over a wordpress function, but I use it extensively on this website.
I’m getting close to being ready to release the plugin I use to make the review rating stars on this site also.

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Media Integrity Script 1.1

Friday, August 11th, 2006

I have updated my Media Integrity script to version 1.1. This is a small update, but it makes it a lot more functional if you have a very large tree of files you are validating. When preforming a verify operation the script will now prompt whether you want to repair the repairable files unless you [...]

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Media Integrity Script

Friday, June 9th, 2006

I just uploaded my media integrity checking script into the software section. It can automatically create and verify par2 files in nested directories of files. I use it to make sure that my mp3s don’t get corrupted, and that some errant program (iTunes for example) doesn’t mess with my tagging. I have been using it [...]

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