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New BuddyPress plugin: BP External Activity

25-May-10

On the CUNY Academic Commons we have a MediaWiki installation running parallel to our WordPress/BuddyPress installation. In the past I had hacked together an inelegant and constantly breaking solution for importing wiki edit notifications into the BP activity stream. I’ve just written a small plugin called BP External Activity which solves the problem by using [...]

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Displaying the BuddyPress admin bar in other applications

12-Oct-09

Cross-posted at the CUNY Academic Commons Dev Blog By popular demand, here’s the method we used at the CUNY Academic Commons to get the BuddyPress admin bar to appear on the non-WP/BP portions of our site. In our case, that means MediaWiki and bbPress, but theoretically this method could work for any kind of software [...]

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New version of BuddyPressActivity for MediaWiki

24-Aug-09

Ding ding ding. Soup’s on. And by soup I mean version 0.2 of BuddyPressActivity, a MediaWiki extension I wrote. Read more about it, and get the code, over at the CUNY Academic Commons dev blog.

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Sharing hacks

14-Aug-09

Open Ed 09 just ended, and I’ve got lots of things to blog about. Here’s a quick one that came out of a conversation that I had this morning with some of the guys from UBC’s Office of Learning Technologies (Enej, Michael, and Alex, if I’m remembering correctly). The conversation started off as a show-off [...]

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New MediaWiki extension: BuddyPressActivity

06-Jul-09

I just released an extension for MediaWiki that publishes wiki edits to the various activity streams native to BuddyPress. You can learn more about this bit of extreme coolness at the CUNY Academic Commons Dev Blog.

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