There’s still some work to go on it so please bare with me for a couple of days

YQL lets you send content and returns tags and they’ve been relatively relevant to the post, so I forked Dan’s plugin (with his permission of course), and modified it to use YQL instead of Open Calais, the end result was this small plugin.

With the YQL Auto Tagger plugin, you’ll never have to think of tags for your posts again. The plugin uses the Yahoo Query Language to perform semantic analysis of your post text and suggest tags for you. Add them to your post with just a click.

Based on the Open Calais Auto Tagger by Dan Grossman – http://www.dangrossman.info

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<?php
function canonical_link(){
   $url = 'http';
   if ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") {$url .= "s";}
   $url .= "://";
   if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80") {
      $url .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"];
   } else {
      $url .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"];
   }
   if( isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) ){
      $url = $url . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
   }
   if($url){
      echo '
<link rel="canonical" href="'.$url.'" />'."\n";
   }
}
?>

to call this function you simply add in your header somewhere:

<?php canonical_link(); ?>

and it will display the canonical URL.

Currently, I run Windows 7 on my main netbook, so I wanted to see how Ubuntu and Chromium run with it.

I made the decision early on to complete remove windows XP from the netbook, and use Ubuntu Netbook Remix as the main OS. Installation went pretty smoothly, and the only hitch was getting the wifi drivers to work, which really didn’t take much to fix.

Once you install UNR, make sure you go to System > Update Manager and update all. If it says there are no updates, go to “Settings”, and make sure you check the top 4 options under the “Ubuntu Software” tab. Once the updates are done, go to System > Hardware Manager, and your wifi card should show up.

I also installed Chromium on another partition. Chromium is the Open source release of Google’s ChromeOS, and so far it’s been nice to play with, but I’m not sure I’d use it as a main OS due to how long it takes for the wifi to start up (upwards of 10 minutes after you reboot). Also, while most of my work is done in the cloud, it’s nice to be able to unplug sometimes.

Also, being the avid ebook reader that I am, I made use of Wine and install the Kindle for PC application which runs pretty smoothly after you tell wine to run as windows 98.

Over the next few months or so, I’ve got some new features planned for that plugin, and will be adding it to the wordpress depository once I’m done with the upgrades.

Why am I pleased to announce that? Because in killing the site, I have brought into a new name that will continue to grow.

A few months ago, I started work on a site called “The Dev Scene“, the idea was that eventually QuickPipe would get moved over to it and cease to exist.

Today, I’m happy to say that this time has come. There’s still some rought spots to iron out, but overall, I’m pretty happy with it.

1. For starters, I’m involved in a new open source project that will be getting posted about very shortly. But essentially, it’s a simple blog system for when WordPress (I know, don’t kill me for saying this) is too big for the job at hand and you need something smaller. I’ll talk more about it later.
2. DBStract is about a month from it’s new backend, and the users who are beta testing the new features have been quite happy with it.
3. ProjectPiece is also not far from finally getting it’s next version, which will also have new features, and some interesting ideas implemented.
4. Foodizu is growing and getting new recipes added by people, and it’s iPhone app will be launching in the new year.
5. Some news about QuickPipe, but that will be coming with other announcements in the next month or so, so I’ll talk more about it then.
6. I have a couple new wordpress plugins almost finished, that will be getting posted about as usual once they’re ready for release.
7. Involved in planning a local WordCamp here in the Okanagan, but again, I’ll have more details about that shortly

Otherwise, just want to wish everybody a happy new year, and look forward to seeing what 2010 brings to the table.