Barack Obama Sidebar Widget for WordPress

We created a simple way for WordPress bloggers to show their support for Barack Obama in the upcoming election: an Obama WordPress sidebar widget. The widget displays the latest entries from the Barack Obama blog and an Obama emblem.

The plugin is extremely easy to use and install.

  1. Download, unzip and upload the `obama-sidebar-widget` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory of your blog.
  2. Activate the plugin through the `Plugins` menu in WordPress.
  3. Enable the widget (`Design > Widgets`) and customise the options.

More information and screenshots are available at WordPress.org:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/barack-obama-sidebar-widget/

Download

Learn more about Content Management

Learn more about Content Management in our brief whitepaper:


Intro to Content Management Systems (PDF)

Mindshare Software goes Open Source

After deciding not to update our line of commercially available Flash applications, Mindshare Software, to the new Actionscript 3.0 specification, we decided to release them as open source projects.

This is just a small way to give back to the open source Flash community. I’ll update this post once the new OS versions are actually ready for download. For now, you can read about the components here and here.

UNM InfoByte ActionScript 3 Class

As promised, here are the files from the class I taught at UNM.

ActionScript 3.0 Class files (ZIP file)

The above file contains all the sample code along with several PDFs from the class.

WordPress Browse Sad Plugin

Browse Sad v 1.0

This is a simple plugin for WordPress that will remove the Browse Happy logo and link from the WordPress Administration pages.

Installation

Extract the mindshare-browse-sad folder into your WordPress plugins directory and then activate it.

Download

Get it now (zip file)