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A Window With a View
I took some pictures from my window earlier this week at work and decided to post them here to test out the new gallery feature built into WordPress 2.5. Let's see how this works.
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Simple Tags plugin & WordPress 2.5 RC2 breaks your blog
I just upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.5 RC2 and everything stopped working. Instead of getting my blog or the admin screen, I got the following error message:
Fatal error: Call to a member function add_query_var() in taxonomy.php
I discovered the root-cause of the problem and it is the wonderful Simple Tags plugin. Disabling the plugin restores WordPress back to it's own awesome self. Simple Tags is an awesome plugin that allows you to manage tags within WordPress.
I've opened an issue with the Simple Tags issue tracker on Google Code.
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Upgraded to WordPress 2.5
I know the latest release of WordPress, v2.5 is not officially out but I have been running WordPress 2.5 from their Subversion repository trunk for about the last week. My initial thoughts on the 2.5 release are very positive and all of my plugins and themes have worked without any major changes. Most plugin and theme authors are already busy upgrading their stuff to the latest code.
Some of the new features include a customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and major performance improvements. Apparently, the Automattic crew has been working with the folks at Happy Cog — Jeffrey Zeldman, Jason Santa Maria, and Liz Danzico — to redesign WordPress from the ground-up. The result is a new way of interacting with WordPress that will remain familiar to seasoned users while improving the experience for everyone. It's more than just a new CSS - it's a very nice redesign of the user interface that may require a little time to get familiar with, but it's worth the effort as the new interface is very user-friendly, slick, and powerful.
Do this at your own risk as this is still pre-release software, but if you want to run the latest development trunk of WordPress, use the checkout command (svn co) to get the latest code and then an update once you get the latest code to make sure you are getting the latest code (svn update).
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Daily del.icio.us for February 10th through February 14th
- Zimbra's new Desktop: Look ma, no browser! | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs - It's very cool. You should give it a spin. This is the best e-mail "client" ever built…largely because of its successful marriage of the Web with the desktop. In the future, all applications will be like this–or should be.
- Ext Road Map - Our goals for 2008 are to continue improving the 2.x version line by adding new components and enhancing some of the existing areas of functionality in Ext as shown below. Looking ahead to 3.0, there are some big new areas that we'll be getting into. In a
- The Making of MarkMail: Announcing an Informal Partnership with Codehaus - We're happy to announce we've developed an informal partnership with Codehaus to load all their mail archives and receive automatic notification of new Codehaus lists as they get created.
- A Conversation with Matt Mullenweg (Yahoo! Developer Network blog) - A few weeks ago, Matt Mullenweg (creator of WordPress) came by Yahoo to talk to a bunch of Yahoo! bloggers about the current and future state of WordPress. After the meeting, I sat down with him for our Developer Spotlight series on YDN Theater to catch u
- Andres Almiray's Weblog : Weblog - JSON-lib is a java library for transforming beans, maps and XML to JSON and back again to beans and DynaBeans. It is based on the work by Douglas Crockford in http://www.json.org/java.
- The State of BPM: Top-Five Trends | The Intelligent Enterprise Blog - The results show a number of interesting trends indicating that CIOs and business leaders are focused on improving their processes. Existing customers described how they expect to get their ROI from their BPM implementations, and most expect to see ROI ov
- Starbucks ditches T-Mobile for AT&T | Crave : The gadget blog - The new AT&T plan allows all customers 2 free hours per day, with a $3.99 fee for additional 2-hour chunks of time. Monthly subscriptions will cost $19.99 and will enable access to other AT&T hot-spot locations in addition to Starbucks.
- Anthony Park :: 100% Geek Content by Volume » New Vista Media Center Plugin - MyNetflix (beta) - I’ve kept this pretty quiet, but I’ve been working on a new Media Center plugin for a little while now. It is now ready for beta testing, and I’ve decided to run a public beta for this one. MyNetflix features * View your Netflix queue * Browse movie
- Humanized > Our Products > Enso Launcher - Enso Launcher is designed to give you instant access to your applications and windows. With a few easily remembered keystrokes, you can launch an application, switch to a window by name, and control the state of your windows.
- Martin Wolf : Advanced Java 5 Generics - Here's an article about a few of the more subtle aspects of Java 5 Generics. This is hardly the 1st article about this particular subject, but none of them explain it quite the way I would have wanted to see it when I was wrestling with this issue myself.
- Panopticon: The Power of Pre-Attentive Processing - Our visualization software is easy to use and is a great way to explore large datasets, identify outliers and find hidden patterns.
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Daily del.icio.us for January 30th through February 1st
- Ext JS Blog - » IDEs, plugins and tools for Ext JS 2.0 - The Ext 2.0 API is very extensive and remembering all of the functions, properties or configs available is virtually impossible. The API documentation is very thorough, but it would be nice if IDEs would provide code assist options in JavaScript as they d
- Clockwork Objects » Adobe Flex: Styling the DataGrid header separators - Although the default alo theme in Flex can be easily styled through CSS (made especially easy using the Flex Style Explorer), there are elements such as separators between the column headers that cannot easily be styled.
- James Ward - RIA Cowboy » Blog Archive » Screencast: BEA Workshop + Adobe Flex Builder - Pieter Humphrey of BEA has posted a great screencast about using the BEA Workshop / Flex Builder bundle. He goes through a very in-depth demonstration of using all the great features of Workshop and Flex to build a RIA front-end for the Medrec Patient App
- Scripteka :: Prototype extensions library - Scripteka.com, the Prototype extensions repository and library. The intention is to provide a central place to organize plugins for the Prototype community.
- John Resig - The State of JSON - JSON2.js - Late last year Crockford quietly released a new version of his JSON API that replaced his existing API. The important difference was that it used a single base object (JSON) instead of extending all native object prototypes
- The Clever Monkey: Leap of Faith: Leaving Burton Group for Curl - It is at once a happy and sad day for me. I resigned from my position at Burton Group for a new position as Vice President of Developer Relations at Curl, Inc. My last day at Burton Group is February 1st; my first day at Curl is February 18th.
- InfoQ: Pragmatic Dave on Passion, Skill and 'Having A Blast' - At QconLondon 2007 Jim Coplien spoke with "Pragmatic" Dave Thomas for InfoQ. This energetic 30-minute interview runs the gamut of Dave's wide-ranging interests: 'agile' publishing; how to turn what you love doing into a book; programming
- InfoQ: New Scala Tutorials for Java Developers - Spiewak started his series, Scala for Java Refugees, in early January and his fourth part, Pattern Matching and Exception Handling was published today.
- Manageability - Top Five Java Technologies to Learn in 2008 - Software Technology will always been in constant flux. Change will always be inevitable. So as a Java developer you need to continue to groom your career by learning new techniques and technologies.
- Shifting Mind » Postalicious - Postalicious is a WordPress plugin that automatically posts your del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, or Google Reader bookmarks to your blog
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Daily del.icio.us for January 18th
- The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.1 RC 1 - JRuby - Codehaus - JRuby 1.1RC1 is the first release candidate of JRuby 1.1. JRuby 1.1 represents a concerted focus on speed and refinement. Ruby code can completely compile in an Ahead Of Time (AOT) or Just In Time (JIT) mode; yielding a faster Ruby
- Raible Designs | FreeMarker vs. JSP 2 - I've been doing quite a bit of prototyping with Spring MVC and Struts 2 with both JSP and FreeMarker in the last few months.
- Mastering Grails: Build your first Grails application - Grails gives you the development experience of Rails while being firmly grounded in proven Java technologies. But Grails isn't just a simple "me too" port of Rails to the Java. Grails takes the lessons learned from Rails and mixes them with Java.
- Software Secret Weapons: Lessons learned while moving from JSPWiki to WordPress - Last weekend I decided to move Software Secret Weapons web site from Java onto LAMP! It was a complete success that I want to share with you
- Dave Woods - HTML, CSS, Web Design » IE6 - CSS Bugs and Fixes Explained - In this article, I?ll hopefully cover the main problems that developers experience with Internet Explorer 6 and explain the solutions for these bugs.
- Firefox DataAnalytics Help center - DataAnalytics is a Firefox extension that enables importation, manipulation, analysis and graphing of data. Often websites lock their information in static tables. Have you ever wanted to sort or manipulate a product list sorted by name by price?
- Anyterm - SSH via web - Have you ever wanted SSH or telnet access to your system from an internet desert - from behind a strict firewall, from an internet cafe, or even from a mobile phone? Anyterm is a combination of a web page and a web server module that provides this access
- Understanding the Java Persistence API, Part 1 - Java World - In this article, you will see how elegantly data persistence can be handled in an object-oriented manner just with the help of JPA annotations.
- Sun To Acquire MySQL - Anyone who follows this blog or has heard my talks will have seen me say "Data is the Intel Inside" of the next generation of internet applications, the very heart of Web 2.0
- Sun buys MySQL for $1 billion to take centerstage in the web economy | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs - An acquisition by Sun means that MySQL gets to continue being a pureplay open-source company and won't need to sacrifice the ideals or the benefits of open source to suit a halfway (and half-baked) stance on open source.
- Open Source Unleashed: Book Review: JasperReports for Java Developers - "JasperReports for Java Developers" proved to be a well put together title that provided sufficient support for a JasperReports newbie, like me, while also making good as a source of reference content that might be useful for non-beginners
- GWT vs. FLEX - This article would compare Google GWT (Google Web Toolkit) and Adobe Flex 2 and would describe the advantages and disadvantages of each of these technologies.
- The Forrester Wave: Application Server Platforms, Q3 2007 by John R. Rymer - Forrester Research - Sun Microsystems revealed itself to be a Strong Performer, approaching the status of established player BEA Systems in that regard
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Daily del.icio.us for Dec 23, 2007
- BitNami :: BitNami Stacks - BitNami stacks make it incredibly easy to install your favorite open source software. Application stacks include an open source application and all the dependencies necessary to run it, such as Apache, MySQL and PHP or Ruby. All you need to do is download
- Sriram Krishnan: Amazon SimpleDB - Technical Overview - Structured storage was one of the missing pieces in Amazon's cloud services jigsaw puzzle (the other has to be the ability to host a site completely on EC2 without using dynamic DNS hacks) and Amazon is plugging that hole today with the launch of SimpleDB
- Remember The Milk - Services / Remember The Milk for Gmail - Remember The Milk for Gmail is a Firefox extension that allows you to manage your tasks in Gmail (complete, postpone, and edit tasks), add new tasks (and connect them with your emails, contacts, and Google Calendar events), automatically add tasks for sta
- Eventually Consistent - All Things Distributed - Recently there has been a lot of discussion about the concept of eventual consistency in the context of data replication. In this positing I would like to try to collect some of the principles and abstractions related to large scale data replication and t
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Daily del.icio.us for Jul 22, 2007 through Jul 26, 2007
- Apache CXF: Interview with Dan Diephouse and Paul Brown - O'Reilly ONJava Blog - I recently had a chance to sit down with both Dan Diephouse and Paul Brown of Envoi Solutions to discuss the merger of XFire and IONA?s Celtix project into a new project, Apache CXF, currently under incubation at the Apache Software Foundation.
- Easy Ajax using Struts 2 - Kb - Struts 2 makes it easy to implement and test an Ajax Java Web application, using standard javascript frameworks such as Prototype. This wiki article gives technical notes on how to kickstart your Ajax Java development.
- Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive 12 Ways to Use Facebook Professionally « - Let?s look at 12 ways Facebook can benefit the web worker, particularly those who are home-based. The more connected you are to your co-workers and clients without being intrusive, the better your working relationship.
- AJAX Magazine: YSlow Helps You Speed up your web pages - Yahoo! released an excellent performance utility on YDN called YSlow, to help you understand why your pages are slow. YSlow is a Firebug addon
- Agile Ajax: Review of GWT in Action - The book does cover many of the new features in GWT 1.4, such as Image Bundling, the new loading mechanism, and the Serializable vs IsSerializable changes. As I've said, overall a fine effort.
- High Performance WordPress Presentation « Barry on WordPress - The slides from the HyperDB and High Performance WordPress presentation are now online via SlideShare
- Web page to PDF Firefox extension - LOOP is a unique extension for Firefox that converts the web browser into a proper PDF writer that can do some amazing things sometime not possible in other free PDF conversion software
- Work Together: 60+ Collaborative Tools for Groups - With businesses and families spread out more and more, we?ve dug up 60+ sites that will help everyone be on the same page
- InfoQ: Presentation: Introduction to Component Based Architecture - Mark Miller delivered an introduction to Component Based Architecture. In this presention he shares tips and tricks focused on maximizing the development strength of your team
- InfoQ: Using ETags to Reduce Bandwith & Workload with Spring & Hibernate - ETags are used in conjunction with the "If-None-Match" header on a GET request to take advantage of the browser cache. Because the server generated the ETag in the first place, it can use it later to determine if the page has changed.
- InfoQ: Bridging the gap between BI & SOA - To summarize, implementing a BI solution by using EDA and SOA is superior to using traditional ETL. Not only do we get our basic BI, but we actually get better, real-time BI?not to mention improvement in the overall quality of our SOA.
- How risk management affects agile approaches | confused of calcutta - Once you switch focus from content to process, agile techniques don?t stand a chance. Agile in a 'content' perspective leads to the Baconian 'A man that starts with doubts shall end in certainties'; … These two positions are polar opposites
- Json-lib 2.0 released - I'm pleased to announce that Json-lib version 2.0 has been released. JSON-lib is a java library for transforming beans, maps and XML to JSON and back again to beans and DynaBeans
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Daily del.icio.us for Apr 13, 2007 through Apr 17, 2007
- The 90th percentile: MyFaces: The emperor has no clothes - My last project is going into production in a couple of weeks, and it has been implemented using JSF. I started with JSF in good faith: it should be stable by now, it is blessed by Sun and included as the de facto web framework in JEE 5.
- James Ward's Blog » Blog Archive » My Recent Flex & Apollo Adventures - A while back Bruce Eckel and I recorded a screencast of us building a Flex application with Hibernate and XFire on the backend. I finally got around to packaging the code for that demo. You can get it from SourceForge.
- rakaz - Make your pages load faster by combining and compressing javascript and css files - Thanks to a small PHP script and some clever URL rewriting I now have an easy to maintain method to speed up the loading of pages that use many or large css and javascript files.
- Vitamin Features » Serving JavaScript Fast - The next generation of web apps make heavy use of JavaScript and CSS. We?ll show you how to make those apps responsive and quick.
- lightWindow - Another decent lightbox Javascript library (via Ajaxian) - After researching every single modal window, lightbox, slimbox, etc out there nothing fit the bill. Granted some of them were very nice but only fit a specific purpose
- Dynamic languages: More than just a quick fix | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2007-04-16 | By Andrew Binstock - IT's rise to prominence as a core competence that delivers competitive advantage has been accompanied by a dramatic increase in the number of software development projects it must complete
- Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Rails Developer David Heinemeier Hansson?s Response to Alex Payne?s Interview [dive into mark] - LAUGH OUT LOUD funny take from Mark Pilgrim, John Gruber style.
- Wordpress Performance: Why My Site Is So Much Faster Than Yours by Elliott Back - There?s no good reason for Wordpress or your site to be slow, except your own negligence. Cache everything. Monitor performance
- Tim Sneath : Introducing Microsoft Silverlight - Silverlight (previously codenamed "WPF/E") is a lightweight subset of XAML for building rich media experiences on the web.
- Java Community News - BEA Releases JRockit R27.2 with Java 6 Support - BEA's latest JVM release, JRockit R27.2, is the first implementation of the Java 6 VM. In addition to providing full Java 6 support, the latest JRockit VM includes many-fold performance improvements, especially for applications with short-lived objects.
- Enomalism : XEN Virtualized Server Management Console: Amazon EC2 Migration - The Enomalism Elastic migration module is a migration tool kit for the management and migration of virtual images between your local xen based enomalism environment and the remote Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Environment.
- Everybody Hates Don Imus - Frank Rich's brilliant column - Even in that short span, there?s been an astounding display of hypocrisy, sanctimony and self-congratulation from nearly every side of the debate
- Dev2Dev Online: Open Source and BEA - BEA believes in open source. We believe a blended strategy for application development and deployment?combining the best of open source and commercial software?provides important freedom and flexibility not available through all-or-nothing approaches
- Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Web Worker Emergency Survival Kit « - Over the years, I?ve accumulated a variety of tools that don?t take up much space but that come in handy when an emergency comes along. On the average day, I don?t need any of these - but when I do, I?m happy to have them. Here are my suggestions
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New Theme for this blog: NigaRila
A lot of you read this blog using an RSS reader and so you probably don't see the theme that adorns this blog but I just switched the theme that powers this blog to the NigaRila theme by Sadish Bala. I have been looking for a great 3-column theme and Sadish has created one of the best looking and usable theme out there.
NigaRila is an awesome theme for WordPress 2.0 that has 3 columns on the Front Page with a fixed width of 900 pixel and 2 columns on all other pages. This theme has two sidebars on the right side. If you have the sidebar widgets plugin installed, then you can use it for both of them. NigaRila is an awesome theme that produces valid XHTML and offers a great deal of functionality. I've made a couple of modifications to add support for a few other plugins but most of the functionality you see on my blog is out of the box including the archive and contact page. Sadish wants $15.00 for this theme and I think its well worth the cost.
In addition to NigaRila, Sadish just recently created a new WordPress theme called Intense after learning about my wife's first cousins son Gavin Winslow. Sadish was moved by Gavin's story and decided to help by adding a link from his theme to Gavin's site at www.savebabygavin.com. This has resulted in Gavin's site getting thousands of visits from people that normally wouldn't know about Gavin. Thank you Sadish for helping raise awareness about Gavin’s story and bringing additional visibility to his site and creating a great WordPress theme in the process.
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