As many of you know, I’ve been work­ing ter­ribly hard with James (and now Jon) on build­ing up the web design side of our com­pany — Inter­con­nect IT and it’s all com­ing along fine.

But I kept think­ing… we need whizzy. Good, com­pat­ible, easy to use whizzy. Now there’s nowhere bet­ter to test these things out than on a per­sonal blog. So this site has always been some­thing of a testbed.

I’ve now added two new fea­tures and they’re test­ing out quite well:

Slight­box — a way of dis­play­ing images in a nice, modal win­dow in front of the page con­tent. Use the arrow keys or mouse clicks to go between images, and x to close.
Google Maps Mashup — loc­at­ing posts geo­graph­ic­ally on a map. So you can see where I’ve been, or where a post relates to.

Both the above use some nice code, with almost no effort to get things work­ing with this Word­Press theme, provided by osCandy and Cyber­hobo.

Every­body bene­fits from the people who do the hard work of writ­ing and sup­port­ing GPL plu­gins — which are free to down­load and free to use. As a thank youto GPL, our com­pany, which uses many GPL products, is plan­ning to release some of our cus­tom plu­gins which we use for cli­ents, into the pub­lic domain. Could be inter­est­ing — it’ll be our first open releases ever!

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