I’ve recently coded my first WordPress plugin, for the fun of it. I’ve been using WordPress for some time, and I know PHP quite well, so I figured it’d be fun. WordPress has a weird/interesting way of being extendable. I won’t go into too much technical details about that, but suffices to say that it’s easy yet complicated to perform tasks you want to. Yeah, that weird.

All that being said, I upgraded my WordPress from 2.7 to 2.7.1 in the middle of coding some new features for the latest release of WP-prettyphoto, 1.1. That made me realize that updating WordPress’ core also updates the installed JavaScript modules, namely jQuery (among many others). When I first coded WP-prettyphoto, when things weren’t working I just replaced the jQuery I had with the latest official stable release and things worked fine. I didn’t give it much thought. So when I updated WordPress, all hell broke loose and WP-prettyphoto was metaphorically crying in agony because jQuery wasn’t man enough for it. I then tried performing the same manual updating procedure, and without really surprising anyone — I was alone anyway — WP-prettyphoto was back prettyfying my stuff like a starving fat kid eats a cheesecake.

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I’ve been looking for a job for one full week, and it seems that I found a fit in this Montreal web company. They’re called CloudRaker, and they’re located downtown Montreal, just an stone’s throw north of Ste-Catherine and De Bleury. They’re pretty close, actually, 2.3 kilometers. I’ll be able to walk/longboard/rollerblade it in summer, and take a rather easy bus route in the winter. Sweet stuff. I’ll be working on basically the same kind of things I was working on back at NVI, with a little more frontend thrown in. Nothing I can’t handle. They seem to be a pretty cool gang there. They’ve been around for 8 years, and they still have that startup feel to everything, which is pretty rare for expanding companies. Looking forward to seeing the challenges ahead and meeting everyone! Be sure to check out their blog.

On another note, I’ve been playing quite a lot with WordPress lately, namely, this WordPress. I’ve installed a few plugins and made some modifications of my own. If you intent to browse around, I’m sure you’ll come across many of them: AJAXed WordPress (AWP), cformsII, and OpenID. They’ve all turned out pretty nice so far. Also added two pages (up top) – Links and Contact. One is a feed from my newly created Delicious account, the other allows you to contact me.

I’ve also been playing a lot with Zend Framework lately for a project I’m working on. I’ll probably be posting snippets of code eventually, stuff that might be useful to the general public, so stay tuned.