This post assumes you’ve completed reading Graham Weldon (@predominant) article on using the plugin, the plugin pages them self and in specific the the tag cloud helper page. The helper example sets a size attribute on the li tag. A way to utilize this would be writing a piece of jQuery (or javascript in general) that would take it and apply some styling to it. This would mean a lot more resource usage compared to pure CSS.
One way to speed up WyriMaps.net is to preload popular tiles and nodes to avoid the disk IO build up with a lot of visitors on the map moving around, zooming in and out and adding/removing node sets to the map. Using tmpfs is a simple way to use the RAM as extra cache to speed up your webpages. Tho another way to do that is using memcached wich is more interesting if you have several servers instead of one.
Since I started using Wordpress a few weeks ago 1 thing been nagging me. No Feedburner email subscription widget that suits my needs, so decided to make one myself. The result is a simple widget for your themes sidebar that lets your visitors subscribe to you feed in a breeze. Feedburner email widget has been accepted as a plugin bij Wordpress yesterday and the first release was pushed today.
For more information please consult the project page.
EDIT: DerEuroMark wrote an excellent replacement for this helper.
After the Flattr MOD for phpBB3 release 2 days ago I wrote this simple flattr cakephp helper (basic cakephp helper knowledge is required) to aid cakephp developers integrate flattr quick and easy into their websites. The helper has only 1 function and is very simple in use.
A while ago I started working on some twitter services and I needed an automatic urlshortner. This first started as a model that would shorten en url and save the result in a table for caching purposes. After a good chat with a friend (beeman) it turned into a behavior with the model only using the behavior to act like it did before. One of the reasons for a behavior was to create a simple interface for the developer without the need to poll the caching model but at the same time be able to use the cache model when the resulting short url wouldn’t be stored anywhere else (like an autmatic tweet). The model currently supports 4 different services (I want to add more in the future tho so any suggestions are welcome): 0x.tc, is.gd, bit.ly and u.nu.