nickburrows.com is the home to my personal website – Perspectives from a Technogeek. The primary purpose of the site is to serve as a blog. However, I also have had the domain name for years and have never put together a real website for me.
It is run off of Word Press and the theme is the Twenty Ten theme that I have customized. This is my first Word Press site, so I’m sure over time I will be tweaking it more and customizing it. As I make changes, I will describe them here.
I currently have 8 Plugins installed and in use:
- Askismet – to minimize the spam comments
- IMDB Easy Movie Embed – This plugin references an external site which pulls data from the Internet Movie Database (IMDB). I have customized this plugin and used the imdbphp2 API to customize the data retrieved and the appearance of that data for my movie reviews.
- My Page Order – This plugin allows me to change the order of my page links so they are not just alphabetical.
- myTreasures – This plugin allows me to create lists for my collections. I use this for everything but my music and movie collections.
- Picasa Express x2 – This plugin allows me to pull pictures from my Picasa Album and embed them into my posts and pages.
- PWA+PHP – This plugin allows me to embed my Picasa album as a gallery on my website.
- Shadowbox JS – This plugin uses AJAX for viewing full size versions of images.
- Tune Library – This plugin parses the XML file of my ITunes library for my Music Collection. Due to the size of my library, the plugin didn’t work independently. So I had to write a script to parse the library and create the SQL queries to add the track information to the database.
In addition to these plugins, I have customized the PHPMyProfiler application to parse the XML output from DVD Profiler and display my DVD collection.