Having already reflected on 2008 for my family, I thought I’d look back at what has happened “professionally” over the last year and make some resolutions for 2009.

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While working on a new site design, I found an interesting bug in WordPress 2.7. I created two new pages to use as “Front page displays”, one called Blog and one called Home. To create the pages, I clicked on Pages > Add New, entered a Title and clicked Publish.

I then went to my Reading Settings (Settings > Reading) and set the static Front and Posts page to the pages I just created. Going back to my site, I tested out the new static pages only to find they didn’t work.

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Includes IE6 positioning bug fixes reported by Deepak Mehta and James Taylor.

• Removed iframe option (use wmode property for object and embed elements)
• Fixed IE positioning issues (including horizontal scrolling)
• Updated jQuery version requirement to 1.2.2
• Added horizontal scrolling test and more position option tests

Links: Project Page | jQuery Plugins Page

Includes bug fixes reported by calderon.joe (thanks joe):

• Fixed iframe errors when iframe option set to false
• Fixed auto centering to use data width/height if container width/height is not set

Also changed the default for the iframe option to false.

Links: Project Page | jQuery Plugins Page

After almost 11 months, I have finally released an update to SimpleModal.

This release fixes a number of browser related issues (mostly with IE) but also adds a few new features.

Some of the features include:

• Automatic centering of the modal dialog, unless overridden with the new position option
• Ability to call $.modal.close(); from the onClose callback without causing infinite loop
• Eliminated the need for external CSS for IE6 dialog positioning
• Added a zIndex option for compatibility with other plugins
• Element resizing when the browser size is changed
• Added an IFRAME to every modal dialog to prevent object bleed-through

Please see the project page for a full list of features, changes and upgrading instructions.

I also updated the demos, including the contact form, which now has the option to display a subject and cc field, UTF-8 support and minor security features.

If you find any issues or have any questions, please let me know.

Tired of carving the same ‘ol pumpkin every year, I thought I’d try something different this year. I free-handed the WordPress logo on the pumpkin then carefully carved it out.

WordPress Pumpkin set on Flickr.

After being asked to help get the SimpleModal Contact Form demo running on a Drupal powered site, I decided to try and turn it into a Drupal Module. Based on my SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF) WordPress Plugin, I was able to create something which I think is now ready for a beta release.

The details can be found on the project page. The module was built for Drupal 6.x, so give it a try and let me know if you find any issues.

Yesterday, on September 24, I turned 34! Which means I was born in 1974. What do all of those have in common…4.

4 is my favorite number and it has been for as long as I can remember. Some other random thoughts:
- My sons, Caden and Cooper, are 3 and 4, respectively.
- “Four is the only number in the English language for which the number of letters in its name is equal to the number itself.” - Wikipedia
- Kirby Puckett, one of my childhood “idols” wore number 34.

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