I'm an RIA Developer who owns a motorcycle custom paint shop, who loves to race anything with wheels. I also enjoy woodworking, cooking, fine wines, liqueurs and dark beers. So if nothing else my blog should be eclectic.

Mango Extensions

Plugins are put into: {blog-path}/components/plugins/user/
Skins are put into: {blog-path}/skins

Aggregator Auto-Ping Plugin

This plugin will allow you to ping up to 5 custom URLS and a currently small but soon to be growing list of XML-RPC. To date the current version supports the following XML-RPC ping sites.

BlogFlux
Blog Shares
Blog Rolling

Bulk Feeds
Feed Burner
Google

Ice Rocket
Moreover
Ping-o-Matic

Syndic8
Technorati
Weblogs

Yahoo

Feed Ping Version 1.1.3 - 5/13/2008
Public SVN Access: http://svn2.assembla.com/svn/EGPS_Mango/plugins/FeedPing/

Site Map Generator

Generate a Sitemap (version 0.90 compliant) that is supported by search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Ask.com and Moreover.com

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.

The Sphere Module

Adds support for Sphere.com

Enhance your readers' experience by offering related content and connecting on-line conversations
Enhance site interaction by establishing your site as an information hub for readers
Acquire new readers by adding your content to the Sphere network of content

When users click the "related link" they will be shown a nice layover that will give them options to view other related blogs or articles related to the current topic. more...

Sphere Module Version 1.0.0 - 5/12/2008
Public SVN Access: http://svn2.assembla.com/svn/EGPS_Mango/plugins/SphereModule/

Nautica Slim

I liked the Nautica 05 skin that came with Mango, but it was just a little too chunky for me. I played around with the code making changes that I think had a big impact on the skin overall, while retaining the look and feel that I think the original authors did well with.

Some changes include

Shrunk top image giving more room for vertical text
Added a text-bubble to the image for your blog's description
Move the search to the top right of the page
Added links for RSS and Atom instead of just RSS
I have removed the left nav bar on sub pages and only show children elements
Main nav bar hight is shorter giving again more vertical space
And I can't forget my amazing 1bit pedestrian

Mango Theme Nautica Slim Version 1.3.0 - 5/15/2008
Public SVN Access: http://svn2.assembla.com/svn/EGPS_Mango/skins/NauticaSlim/