The Google Wave “Wave This” function takes the title of a post and a short description and starts a new wave for you to add users to. It uses the “Wave This” API.

This sidebar widget adds a button to individual post pages that sends the post title and exerpt to Wave. If you haven’t set an exerpt the widget uses the default one generated by WordPress for each post. The default button is 300px wide to allow for larger sidebars. Please resize the button using the widget options.

2010-06-16: Added the official button options from Google.

Latest Version

Version 0.3

Known Issues

• Settings are not persistent across updates. I’ll try to build this in soon.
• Does not use the official “Wave This” buttons from the API page. The official buttons can be linked though using the custom image feature. Fixed: see update 16–06-10
• Does not support Wave for domains other than the Google Wave Preview.

Support

If you need help with the Wave This Widget, leave a message here, or on the WordPress Support Forum. At the risk of fragmenting the support, you can also get in touch with me on Google Wave¹, or leave a message on the official plugin wave (embedded here).

Warranty

No warranty is given for this plugin.

Wave This Widget for WordPress is a post from: The Geekorium

1. it is a Wave plugin after all!

There are however, people of my acquaintance who are a lot more technologically ‘ept’ (it should be a word, you know —  the opposite of inept) and have started mucking about under the bonnet of Wave.

One of these is Dave, and the other day he introduced me to a little gadget he calls 5×5.  The object of the game is to totally fill the grid with black squares. Clicking on a square results in that square (and those around it as seen in the initial pattern below) toggling its colour. There is a solution in 14 moves.

DaveP’s 5×5

I’ll hand over to Dave to explain what it is, how it came about,  and how it works.

5×5 is a puzzle I first saw as a DOS PC thing back in the late 1980s. I wrote my own version of it back then (just for fun) and, ever since, it’s sort of been my “try a new environment” project. I’ve written versions for DOS, Windows, OS/2, the old Palm Pilot and even for GNU emacs.

Some time back I quickly wrote a HTML/Javascript version so, given that that’s pretty much all a Wave gadget is, I reworked it as a gadget. The main difference with this version is that it’s coded with the state of the game held in the Wave. This means that a) you can always come back to it and it’ll be how you left it and b) everyone who is part of the Wave can see what’s happening and can also make moves.

All you have to do is use the “add a gadget” toolbar button (the one that looks like a green jigsaw) and just input this URL in the dialog that you get: http://serenity.davep.org/5×5/5×5.xml

Hmm — the fun stuff begins!

Oh, and PS … I couldn’t do the puzzle (/grin) not even using Wave’s fabulous “playback” feature!

Gadget. A fun one is a post from: The Geekorium

Despite this, I’ve created a site called First Waves to post the latest news about Google Wave and the Wave Protocol. I was updating pretty frequently until this week when the headaches got too much for me, and I couldn’t think straight to pull it all together.

I’ll get into updating it again ASAP, but I’d be encouraged if anyone reading this wanted to check it out and leave a comment or whatnot. I’ll be migrating it to WordPress in the near future too, and enhancing it with some more information about me, and some links to essential Wave resources.

That’s my update. Thank you for listening.

Waves, headaches, sleep is a post from: The Geekorium