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• Some New Sites Launched Apr 08 2009, 2 Comments
  

  Some new sites which have been keeping me busy lately have recently launched I am currently looking for more web projects, so if you need help with a web site please drop me an email. My resume is posted here if you’re interested in learning more about my background.
  Here are the sites:
  Basikneads Catering, [...]

• Stay Tuned Feb 15 2009, 1 Comment
  

  I’ve been back in Vancouver BC for over a little over a month now, and I’m more or less settled in now. Which means I need to spend some time updating this site (finally), and various WordPress plugins. I’m going to move more towards microblogging (find me on twitter), and tantannoodles.com will become a home [...]

• Moving On Dec 09 2008, 4 Comments
  

  As some may know, I’m going to be moving back to Vancouver BC this Christmas (only 2 weeks!). Kinda crazy when I think about it… I’ve been living here in Washington DC for a little over 6 years now. How time flies! And next year, I’m going to be getting married… woohoo! 
  Anyways… since I’m making [...]

• Update: Flickr Photo Album– Localization Support (1.1) Oct 06 2008, 7 Comments
  

  A followup to my call for help last month. Combining the work of several volunteer helpers from around the Internet, the Flickr Photo Album plugin for WordPress now includes support for 12 different languages: Danish, German, Indonesia, Italian, Korean, Persian, and Simplified/Traditional Chinese, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Swedish. You don’t need to do anything extra in order [...]

• Localization Help Needed (Updated) Sep 20 2008, 1 Comment
  

  I’m currently working on translating the Flickr Photo Album plugin for WordPress into multiple languages. If you’re fluent in English and another language, and would like to help build up the Open Source Flickr community by providing translations, then please let me know at joetan54@gmail.com.
  The plugin has already been downloaded ~70,000 times now, so any [...]

• Yup, Something Happened…. Aug 06 2008, 11 Comments
  

  Here’s my version of the alleged events:
  I sent a request to her on Facebook to change our relationship status, and fortunately, she accepted the change… woohoo! And well yeah, we also went to the sculpture garden before (see long winded version over there) and I guess I did awkwardly ask for her hand in marriage with said [...]

• Netgear ReadyNas Duo Jul 24 2008, No Comments
  

  Last week (or two weeks ago?) I ordered a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo and it finally arrived the other day. Basically it’s a really large hard drive based storage system you throw onto your network. I don’t really have that much stuff to store, but I think it’s generally good to store and backup my [...]

• Updated: Flickr Photo Album (0.98) Jul 13 2008, 2 Comments
  

  I’ve released a new version of the Flickr Photo Album plugin for WordPress. This release adds a couple new incremental features and is mostly a bug fix / maintenance release:

  Paging support for albums with lots of photos. At the moment, this is limited to 30 photos per page.
  Added a “Interestings” tab next to the “Everyone” [...]

• Blocking Similar Comments with Simple Spam Filter (0.6) Jul 01 2008, 5 Comments
  

  In the on-going war against spam, I’ve noticed spammers starting to use a new tactic. They simply copy and paste previously posted legit comments that have passed all spam filters, modify them just a little by tacking on a link to their spam site, and then re-posting the comment. The logic here is that the [...]

• How To: Creating a Life Stream Jun 18 2008, 6 Comments
  

  Say you want to create a lifestream for yourself. That is, aggregate all your online activities into one page, to make it easier for people to keep up to date with what you’ve been up to (or to stalk you, like my parents… who complain I never update this blog). Sites like FriendFeed will do [...]