I just developed a new plugin for WordPress that pulls the latest images, captions, and links from your latest Pinterest activity and shows it off on the sidebar. There are several customizations you can make to it to match the look and flow of your site.

You can read more about it and download the plugin for free from the WordPress plugin directory.

There will be a lot more great features to come once Pinterest opens their API to developers.

Feel free to post any questions in the comments or ask me on twitter.

The easiest way to make the HTML for a simple form is to use CakePHP’s built-in FormHelper. Once you get your model and table set up with the fields you need, a little shortcut is to use the inputs() function so that you don’t have to type out each individual field input:

<?php
echo $this->Form->create('Post');
echo $this->Form->inputs();
echo $this->Form->end('Submit');
?>

This method puts Cake’s automagic form elements to work and will save some time and shave off a couple lines of code if your form isn’t too complicated.

I recently installed a new aftermarket stereo in my 1999 Volkswagen Beetle. I was kind of forced into getting a new radio because I took my car in to a shop to diagnose a battery drain and they ended up cracking my factory radio when they pulled it out.

I have no real experience working with cars, and the install definitely took a lot longer than expected, but I think this is a task that most people can handle. My install was complicated by the fact that the shop that diagnosed my battery drain also removed the fuse to the radio (fuse 42, fyi) and didn’t tell me about it.

I ordered most of the parts I needed off of Amazon.

The stereo I bought was the Sony Xplod CDXGT55UIW. It has both USB connectivity with iPhone support and an AUX port for connecting anything else. It definitely beats the tape deck in my old radio.

Here’s the full list of items I needed:
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