I'm Jake Ruston - A huge Nightwish fan! I'm also interested in programming, which is why you'll probably see a lot of Wordpress Plugin releases on my blog. I also like to talk about random subjects. So... yeah... that's it.

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Merry Christmas! (And Tuomas Holopainen’s Birthday!)

Friday, December 25th, 2009

Hi guys,

I’d just like to wish you all a very merry Christmas, despite the fact that I’m not really in the Christmas spirit much this year :)

Some of you may have noticed the falling presents coming from my blog, which was made using my own JR Effects plugin. I feel that it added a bit of an extra touch, whereas every other blog is using snow.

Anyway, as for creating Wordpress plugins, I will probably be back making them and releasing updates on boxing day (26th December) or possibly the day after. Obviously I can’t really create anymore today as I have other commitments, as will a lot of you who visit my blog.

I’d also like to personally thank everyone who has supported my plugins and are using them at the moment. Obviously they’re all free and it does take quite a lot of work to create them and manage them, the only thing I get out of it is a small link. I will aim to produce even better plugins in future, and keep updating the ones I have made. As usual, if you could give me feedback about any of my plugins I can work on the improvements, as quite a lot of people have found out. I do actually read the feedbacks.

One last thing I want to mention, happy birthday to my hero Tuomas Holopainen of Nightwish. It must be so nice having your birthday on Christmas Day and I’m sure quite a lot of people would wish him a happy birthday too. Just a shame it’s quite difficult to personally contact him.

Enjoy the rest of your day, have a merry Christmas!

Spam Comments

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

I seem to be getting bombarded with spam comments lately (Upwards of 10 spam comment a day). I do manually check these comments because sometimes valid comments get accidently sent to the spam box.

I do think that I could spend my time doing more productive things though, so I’m going to try my best to stop as much spam as possible.

I do want to keep the comments on this blog DoFollow because I do a lot of commenting myself so I’d got to give something back to the community, I suppose.

Don’t be surprised if you suddenly see the comment system suddenly changing. I’ll do a bit of tweaking today and see what I can come up with.

Google Wave Invites

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Hi Guys

I just thought I’d let you know that I still have some Google Wave invites available, so if you’re still needing one then you can comment on my blog post at Get a Free Wave Invite!.

For the people who have commented on this post but not received a personal email back from me, I have invited you to Google Wave, don’t worry. You should receive your invite very shortly (Basically, as soon as Google decides to send it. It doesn’t take long).

I hope everyone enjoys Google Wave! :D (Despite the fact that I hardly ever use it…)

This Blog is now DoFollow!

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Well I finally decided I would be kind – And now this blog is DoFollow :)

Of course I’m using my own plugin, JR NoFollow, to do this. I’ve also enabled another good plugin called KeywordLuv, which is another nice addition to the blog.

At least with this, you get something out of making a comment on my blog. Thanks a lot for everyone who has commented despite it being NoFollow previously.

Well this is just a small post that I wanted to make to inform you guys. I’ll get back to work on making more plugins and interesting posts for you guys to read :)

Thanks for reading!