Recommendation : Darkly Dreaming Dexter / Dexter Season One

by Damian Manifold on January 24th, 2008 in Recommendation



Being not a great reader when I saw the advert for the new series Dexter I had no idea what is was all about, it was the blood red artwork that attracted me to the a. One I read the overview I knew I just had to give it a try. The premise is forensics technician for the Miami police by day and a serial killer by night, but he’s a nice guy so he onlykills bad people, killers, killer who get away with it. I love it, it has a very dark humour and it keeps you on the edge of your seet. Its so good I just had to read the book. The book does start of with a few minor difference to the TV series but nothing major. The book provides the main story arc for season on, but buy the end the two do start to diver slightly with different characters making it though to the end in each. If you like black homur or people getting what they deserve I’d recommend this.

Recommendation : TinyMCE Plug-ins for WordPress

by Damian Manifold on January 15th, 2008 in Recommendation

I’ve just installed on my blogs two plugins which i have found, this are TinyMCEComments and TinyMCE Advanced and I am very please with them.

TinyMCEComments quite simply uses WordPress’ inbuilt TinyMCE editor to provide a nice richtext box for commenter. Is doesn’t add al the feature of TinyMCE but it it make the whole comment entry more visual by providing bold italic strike though  and underline and of couse the anchor facility. Very handy but oddly the plugin is only at version 0.4.1 so i can’t wait to see version 1.

TinyMCE Advanced on the other had is only useful to the authors on the site and only if they use in in-built editor. It enable feature that are part of TinyMCE that for some reason have been disabled when it is used in WordPress. Such feature and search and replace, styles , custom characters and even smily faces :-D make it much nicer when entering a post.