Kenny Carlile

Code

My interest in programming began when I was 16 and I wanted to make my first web page. At the time, using AOL Press to generate HTML was "programming". As I progressed, I needed to learn how to write JavaScript to make rollovers, which then led me to the next level in "programming". My first year in college, I took an intro to programming class in Visual Basic 6. This was my first exposure to real programming. I hated it. Well, I hated VB6 and I hated my teacher.

Three years later, at Western Oregon University, I decided to give programming another shot, this time with Java. Now I was hooked. While I've had my ups and downs with programming over the last decade, I keep coming back to it in some form or another.

I've dabbled in many languages, some to a greater extent than others. My favorites are Java, PHP, and Python, although my Python experience is very limited currently. Django and Google App Engine are very exciting to me and I hope to do more with those in the future. I really like WordPress as a platform for tinkering and customizing a site. You can do a lot with it to make it more than a blogging engine.

Below are some projects that I've worked on in my spare time and offer as open source (and free) to anyone who would like to use them or learn from them. I hope you find them useful.

WordPress Plugins

DiggBadger – DiggBadger integrates the Digg tools "Digg This" button with dynamic data from WordPress to add a Digg badge to posts and pages in WordPress 2.x or greater. Stories already submitted will show how many times they have been dugg and stories not yet submitted will post to the submit story page with information pre-populated.

PicasaWebScraper – PicasaWebScraper integrates PicasaWeb public galleries into a post or page in WordPress 2.x or greater. Galleries are displayed within WordPress, but due to image handling in PicasaWeb, individual image links still go to PicasaWeb.