In which I present my first Textpattern Plugin

I’ve been teach­ing myself a bit of PHP and, as I’ve learned from past expe­ri­ence, the best way to go about this sort of thing is through prac­ti­cal appli­ca­tion. What you need to do is to actu­ally cre­ate some­thing use­ful, some­thing that you’ll actu­ally use in your day-to-day life. Or, fail­ing that, it should be some­thing that amuses or inter­ests you.

And so, with that in mind, I set about cre­at­ing a Textpat­ten plu­gin with one pur­pose and one pur­pose only: To gen­er­ate a ran­dom hobo name taken from the list of 700 such names from John Hodgeman’s The Areas of my Exper­tise.

I there­fore present to you cwh_hobo and you can see it in action in the side­bar. You’ll also note that my site now sports a new Code sec­tion where I’ll hope­fully be adding other plu­g­ins and con­trivances in the future.

Oh, and do let me know if you catch any errors or issues with cwh_hobo and I’ll be sure to cor­rect them as soon as I can. You can do so by con­tact­ing me directly.

Enjoy!