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I wrote a small plugin for the cakePHP CMS Croogo. It displays share buttons for the social networks Facebook, Twitter and Google+ below each blog entry. It uses socialshareprivacy script by Heise, which hides social media buttons behind a second click to prevent auto-loading these buttons and thereby auto-transmitting data to third parties by default.

You can find more info on the used script here. The download of the plugin can be found on my github.

To install this plugin put the socialprivacy folder into your /app/plugins/ folder on your webserver and activate the plugin in the admin area.

The script can only be used once per page, so it is only displayed in details of a blog entry and not on the main page (where more than one entry is shown). You can probably see a demo of the plugin right below this blog entry.

I wrote this little Helper to simplify the creation of QR Codes in a cakePHP app. It uses the Google Chart API, therefore Codes are generated on the fly and not saved on the server.

It can be found in my GIT repository.

Includes functions to create QR codes for:

• free text
• contacts
• email sending
• calendar events
• Geolocations
• Android Market Searches
• MMS sending
• SMS sending
• Telephone calls
• URLs

Some samples

echo $this->Qrcode->text('muXe rocks!');

would create this QR code with the content "muXe rocks!"

And this:

echo $this->Qrcode->event(
	array(
		'summary' => 'Highnachten',
		'start' => '20101224T180000',
		'end' => '20101224T235900',
		'location' => 'Berlin',
		'description' => 'Time to celebrate!'
	),
	array(
		'size' => '500x500',
	)
);

would create the following QR code, which contains an iCal event.

I worked on my Croogo Flattr Plugin to make it compatible with the new Croogo version 1.3.2, where some changes were made in the plugin hook system. While doing this, I improved the usability by adding an admin settings page, so the user won't have to edit anything in the source files anymore.

The Plugin can still be found at github. An uploadable zip file can be found in the downloads section.

You problalby didn't notice the change, because until today I didn't have any  real visitors, but hey: I have a new design.

The default croogo design is nice and minimalistic, but since I work as a web developer I needed something to show off a bit more. Okay, showing off is the wrong term, because I just ported a free template into croogo. For me, a complete css newbie, this was a big step.

The template is called nonzero and my credits go to http://nodethirtythree.com/.

I'm amazed by the theme and fallback system of croogo. Even for me, making my blog look like the template wasn't a big deal.

I used my productive phase to fill the about page with some content. I hope this fresh looking blog motivates me to blog more frequently.

In the course of writing a Flattr Plugin for my Blog I wrote a cakePHP helper to dispay Flattr buttons.

The source can be found on github and the usage is explained in the comments.