Saturday, February 6th, 2010 (updated 6 Feb ’10)

Adam Khan | Brighton, England

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Add to other databases from within ExpressionEngine templates using Insert Entries

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What a find:
Walter Russell Mead’s Blog.

On chatroulette.com.

Russell Beattie: What we really wanted was a MacPad not an iPad.

Sikuli, ingenious GUI scripting. Definitely going to try it.

The main problem for America now, suggests Walter Russell Mead, is that the social class that manages and fosters change is itself now for the first time being undermined by change.

This video of a tablet mockup makes me horny at last for a tablet computer. I’m excited for tomorrow’s Apple announcement. Guess I’ll be standing in line to buy one as well.

A Little Less Conversation, says Joel Spolsy.

Fake Steve Jobs pens the most insightful piece I’ve read on Google’s complaints vis-a-vis China.

Hypercritical by John Siracusa, or, The Tao of Editing.

A test of input device speed for a 221-word passage.

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he Insert Entries plugin lets you easily insert a row into any database table — whether ExpressionEngine’s or any database to which you have administrator access.

Together with the Update Entries and External Entries plugins, it’s an easy way to integrate EE with other MySQL-based systems, such as a commerce platform.

For more information, see the docs.

The plugin costs $15 per EE install, works on both EE v1.x and v2.x, and is free to download and try before you buy.

Integrate ExpressionEngine with other systems using the Update Entries add-on

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pdate Entries lets you easily update rows in any database table — whether within ExpressionEngine’s database or in any database to which you have administrator access.

For example, the other system can send a form to the page containing the Update Entries plugin, which can update both EE (such as changing the status of a payment from pending to paid) and another system in turn.

Together with the Insert Entries and External Entries plugins, it’s an easy way to integrate EE with other MySQL-based systems, such as a commerce platform.

For more information, see the docs.

The plugin costs $15 per EE install and is free to download and try before you buy.

Get more next/previous power in ExpressionEngine with Nearby Entries

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ometimes a site needs more access to next and previous entries than ExpressionEngine’s built-in next/previous tags provide.

With the Nearby Entries plugin, you can display not just one but any number of next and previous links. Order them not only chronologically by entry date but by edit date or expiration date or even alphabetically by title. Filter them using standard weblog:entries parameters such as status, category, author and custom fields. And display their custom fields.

For more information, see the docs.

The price per ExpressionEngine installation is $15 and it’s free to try before you buy.