Tag: YouTube

Fluid Video Embeds Now Works Better With Feeds

One of my WordPress Plugins; Fluid Video Embeds just got a minor update. The plugin works by wrapping YouTube and Vimeo videos in some nifty HTML markup that makes them fluid (stretchy, 100% width, elastic, etc.) Read More

Own Your Content

Brett Slatkin and Gina Trapani definitely have me convinced that for content creators, screen casters, bloggers, designers, even developers, your own domain name is where your content needs to live. With services like YouTube, Facebook, and even Google Plus, we are giving our thoughts away to other services; they do offer amazing value and convenience after all.

When the services die, so will our photos, posts, experiences and everything that goes with them. It’s important for all of us to get our own domain names, post our thoughts there, and back our data up.

New WordPress Plugin: Fluid Video Embeds

Lately I’ve been “dog-fooding” a lot of the work I do; forcing myself to actually use all of the products and code that I write. This is nothing new, but as of late I’ve been taking it to heart. If I code something, it has to be worthy of me using it on my site, or my mom’s site, etc.

If you don’t feel like reading, check out the live demo page. Or read on and find out why I created this and what the big deal is.

WordPress has a great auto-magic way of handling video and photo embeds; oEmbed. It allows you to paste a YouTube URL or a Flickr photo page URL into your post and it handles the rest. It will embed the YouTube video automatically, it will embed the Flickr photo with an appropriately sized image linked to the original, and the list of “providers” is ample!

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Triangulation on TWiT

 

TWiT (This Week in Tech) is where I get my tech news and general audio entertainment from. Whether I’m on my commute, writing some late-night code, or just unwinding there’s always something for me on the TWiT network. One of the more innovative shows (I think) is Triangulation. Read More

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