Some quick news from the Shinypixel Labs – AutoWhack 0.3 is officially stable and available to download.   AutoWhack is a small GUI application to assist with compressing and obfuscating Javascript for production websites.  It uses the YUI Compressor under the hood, and allows you to conveniently concatenate and compress whole folder trees of Javascript automatically or as a one-shot process.

Autowhack 0.3 is now available.

(Usual disclaimer applies.  May turn your cat green, but it’s pretty unlikely.)

There’s also DownTheTubes, which is a little experiment of mine in the world of Maemo 5 development for my Nokia N900.  It’s a map for giving you a tube map and status in a convenient little package; it’s kinda working but nowhere near being finished, but it ’s got its own page now.

One of the things that impressed me about Wordpress was the out-of-the-box experience and the plugin ecosystem – you can do just about anything with the minimum of fuss possible, including upgrading and installing things.  It’s A Good Thing, and something that a lot of Content Management Systems could learn from.

A particular part of said ecosystem is AnyFont, which does for Wordpress excellently something that I’ve found myself hacking into various blog systems over the years – replacing headings with nice textual images.  When I installed it I found that it didn’t do multi-line titles – which is why the first few blog entries on Shinypixel have short titles – so I got my hands dirty, coded it in and sent the changes off to the author.

My code has now made it into the 0.7 release, which as well as supporting multiline images now also supports OpenType fonts for your images.  Many thanks to Ryan for being friendly and accepting my patches.  Now you too can have multiline titles as premiered on shinypixel.co.uk!

Questions?  Suggestions?  Just drop me a comment.