Just started the upgrade to the latest and greatest Sun JDK. The german welcome message is … well … Altavista Babelfish would have done a better job in 1995 of translating the English original. Luckily, the JDK itself is of much better quality.
I really would like to know the amount of downloads of OpenOffice this is triggering.
Sun JDK 6 Update 13 Installer Welcome Message
Since it’s currently not possible to take advantage of the native Linux driver fwlanusb from AVM for the Fritz!WLAN USB stick (see my earlier post), I now tried to use the Windows native driver with the help of ndiswrapper. Surprisingly, this was a task of 15 minutes, and all works fine. I tried to use ndiswrapper for another stick and another distro 2 years ago or so, and it was a pain to use, but now it’s really easy:
Easy to install and even works better than the native driver, the signal strength bars are working properly. So after all, it’s now working, but why does it always have to be such a hassle?!
We rented four DVDs with a christmas offer to watch over the weekend on my laptop. But already during the first movie (The Mummy - Tomb of the Dragon Emperor) problems were apparent. Now, wife and kid sleeping, I had time to dig into the problem. Which is that we were trying to listen to a heavily scratched CD with kids music (guess who scratched it…). Windows falls back to slow and CPU hungry PIO mode after having problems while in DMA mode, like problems you have that have nothing to do with your PC configuration, but with the disc you inserted. Fine, it could be, if Windows did not remember that decision, and (nearly) nothing can convince it from the opposite. After quite some time of googling and reading, I came across this site, which explains the problem, and offers a solution: Deleting some hashcode for your primary and secondary IDE channels from the Windows registry, so that Windows is re-discovering the drive capabilities. Nuts.
Anyway, problem fixed, now I’m going to spend the rest of the evening with “No Country For Old Men”.
All my readers and followers, I’d like to wish a merry little Christmas and happy new year. Enjoy the time “between the years” and spend time with those whom we tend to neglect in the hectic daily business, those we love, depend upon and cannot live without.
Merry Christmas!
This seems like an easy task, but it’s not. Is more complicated than expected for several reasons:
After all, it appears that after managing to upgrade Ubuntu (the process is still ongoing), it still is not able to connect again, because of a simple bugfix, that apparently is preventing a string to be written over a boundary.
Amazing Fail! Well done. I mean, net connectivity is core, how can you do anything serious without it nowadays, and how can the priorities in bugfixing and releaseing be so wrong?!
Thank You for pulling this through, yes You can! I do want to like You. Thank You for making that possible again for me. Thank You for turning into reality what I had hoped for but could not dare to believe.
The truth is so simple, yet so difficult to realize for many managers. In times of crisis, headcount is the first thing that is reduced. When companies merge, focus is to monetize synergies (read: lay off people) instead of thinking about how combined competencies can increase the generated customer value.
Especially when the markets struggle, it is extremely important to focus on the customer value. In the Agile Advice Blog, this has been wrapped up nicely:
It’s true, of course, that staff are a substantial cost for most businesses. However, we sometimes lose sight of the fact that in any business where staff is a substantial cost, it also probably means that staff are responsible for a large proportion of the value your business generates. Cutting staff therefore means reducing value, and that just puts your business into a vicious cycle. Cut staff, deliver less value, customers and clients don’t get as much value, they start looking elsewhere, you get more revenue pressure, you cut more staff, etc. Not only that, but if you cut staff, but leave the bureaucracy in place, then the ratio of bureaucratic overhead to staff is increased leading to even worse productivity!
I can only hope that in future, more companies understand and are able to react accordingly. However, if insight comes relativly easy, the art is to transform the new knowledge into the state of reality!
Yesterday I claimed that I won’t post any PHP code … and today I find myself patching the Twitter updater, which is supposed to forward infos about my new blog posts 
After updating Wordpress however, tweets are duplicated for new blog posts, which is a known problem, but only adressed in a fork of the Twitter updater by Ingo “Ingoal” Hildebrandt. Unfortunatly that does not contain my modifications to only post the english post title to Twitter. Additionally, there seems to be a problem with scheduled posts, which are tweeted as soon as you save it. If all goes well both issues are adressed in my version. These are my chages (download patch file):
twitter_updater.php
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 | --- twitter_updater.php_orig 2008-08-04 20:42:26.000000000 +0200 +++ twitter_updater.php 2008-10-09 06:32:18.000000000 +0200 @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ Plugin Name: Twitter updater Plugin URI: http://www.ingoal.info/archives/2008/07/08/twitter-updater/ Description: Updates Twitter when you create a new blog or publish one -Version: 2.06 -Author: Ingo "Ingoal" Hildebrandt +Version: 2.06.1 +Author: Ingo "Ingoal" Hildebrandt and Andreas Ebbert-Karroum Author URI: http://www.ingoal.info/archives/2008/07/08/twitter-updater/ Based on Version 1.0 @@ -45,6 +45,15 @@ Edited by Ingo "Ingoal" Hildebrandt (v2.06) Edit: - added cascading short-url generation (if zz.gd is down, it'll cascade to tinyurl.com) + +Edited by +Andreas Ebbert-Karroum (v2.06.1) +Edit: - hook to wp_insert_post instead of save_post + - retrieve post title with get_the_title + - shorten text if it grows over 140 characters + - urlencode text + - add option to use zz.gd or tinyurl (tinyurl keeps trailing slash) + - if qtranslate is present, set language to 'en' */ @@ -66,7 +75,7 @@ fputs($fp, "Authorization: Basic ".$thisLoginDetails."\r\n"); fputs($fp, "User-Agent: ".$agent."\n"); fputs($fp, "Host: $host\n"); - fputs($fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n"); + fputs($fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf8\n"); fputs($fp, "Content-length: ".strlen($twit)."\n"); fputs($fp, "Connection: close\n\n"); fputs($fp, $twit); @@ -83,9 +92,12 @@ function vc_twit($post_ID) { $twitterURI = "/statuses/update.xml?source=ingoalstwitterupdate"; $thisposttitle = ""; - $thisposttitle = $_POST['post_title']; + global $q_config; + if (isset($q_config)) { + $q_config['language']='en'; // 135) { + $thisposttitle = substr( $thisposttitle, 0, 140-strlen($tinyurl)-strlen('... ( )')-strlen($sentence)+strlen('#title#')) . '...'; } $thisposttitle = $thisposttitle . ' ( ' . $tinyurl . ' )'; } $sentence = str_replace ( '#title#', $thisposttitle, $sentence); } - } }else if ($_POST['prev_status'] == 'publish') { // is old post if(get_option('oldpost-edited-update') == '1') { @@ -130,23 +132,16 @@ if (strlen(trim($thisposttitle)) == 0) { $post = get_post($post_ID); if ($post) { - $thisposttitle = $post->post_title; + // use get_the_title, because this is filtered by qTranslate + $thisposttitle = get_the_title($post_ID); } } if(get_option('oldpost-edited-showlink') == '1') { - if(get_option('short-method') == '1') { - $tinyurl = file_get_contents_curl("http://zz.gd/api-create.php?url=".$thispostlink); - if ($tinyurl == '') { - $tinyurl = file_get_contents_curl("http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url=".$thispostlink); - } - } - else { - $tinyurl = file_get_contents("http://zz.gd/api-create.php?url=".$thispostlink); - if ($tinyurl == '') { - $tinyurl = file_get_contents("http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url=".$thispostlink); - } - } + $tinyurl = get_short_URL($thispostlink); + if (strlen($thisposttitle)+strlen($tinyurl)>135) { + $thisposttitle = substr( $thisposttitle, 0, 140-strlen($tinyurl)-strlen('... ( )')-strlen($sentence)+strlen('#title#')) . '...'; + } $thisposttitle = $thisposttitle . ' ( ' . $tinyurl . ' )'; } $sentence = str_replace ( '#title#', $thisposttitle, $sentence); @@ -158,13 +153,28 @@ if($sentence != ""){ - $urlstatus = 'status='.$sentence; + $urlstatus = 'status='.urlencode($sentence); $status = utf8_encode($urlstatus); $sendToTwitter = vc_doTwitterAPIPost($status, $twitterURI); } return $post_ID; } +function get_short_URL($url) { + if(get_option('short-method') == '1') { + if (get_option('use-zz-gd') == '1') { + return file_get_contents_curl("http://zz.gd/api-create.php?url=".$url); + } else { + return file_get_contents_curl("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=".$url); + } + } else { + if (get_option('use-zz-gd') == '1') { + return file_get_contents("http://zz.gd/api-create.php?url=".$url); + } else { + return file_get_contents("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=".$url); + } + } +} function file_get_contents_curl($url) { $ch = curl_init(); @@ -192,7 +202,7 @@ //HOOKIES -add_action ( 'save_post', 'vc_twit'); +add_action ('wp_insert_post', 'vc_twit'); add_action('admin_menu', 'vc_addTwitterAdminPages'); ?> |
twitter_updater_manage.php
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 | --- twitter_updater_manage.php_orig 2008-10-09 06:35:23.000000000 +0200 +++ twitter_updater_manage.php 2008-10-09 06:12:40.000000000 +0200 @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ update_option('oldpost-edited-text', 'Fiddling with my blog post: #title#'); update_option('oldpost-edited-showlink', '1'); update_option('short-method', '0'); + update_option('use-zz-gd', '1'); update_option('twitterInitialised', '1'); } @@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ update_option('oldpost-edited-text', $_POST['oldpost-edited-text']); update_option('oldpost-edited-showlink', $_POST['oldpost-edited-showlink']); update_option('short-method', $_POST['short-method']); + update_option('use-zz-gd', $_POST['use-zz-gd']); }else if ($_POST['submit-type'] == 'login'){ //UPDATE LOGIN @@ -91,6 +93,10 @@ <label for="short-method"><strong>Attention!</strong>: only check if the shorturl-generation throws errors!<br> If there's nothing wrong, don't check this checkbox!!!</label> </p> + <p> + <input type="checkbox" name="use-zz-gd" id="use-zz-gd" value="1" /> + <label for="use-zz-gd">Use <a href="http://zz.gd">zz.gd</a> instead of <a href="http://tinyurl.com">tinyurl.com</a>.</label> + </p> </fieldset> |
Update 1: Check if it works, when password is reset.
Update 2: After lots of trial and errors, and changing the action hook from publish_post to wp_insert_post, it appears to be working.
I don’t know what exactly went wrong earlier, but I could not enable syntax highlighting in wordpress-mu together with an active qTranslate plugin. But after upgrading everything to the latest version (Wordpress-mu to 2.6.2 and qTranslate to 1.1.4) it works with WP-Syntax like a charm! Here are a few examples from the docs. The list of supported languages is massive
<div id="foo"> <?php function foo() { echo "Hello World!\\n"; } ?> </div>
1 2 3 4 5 | public class Hello { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello World!"); } } |
18 19 20 21 22 | class Example def example(arg1) return "Hello: " + arg1.to_s end end |
Only Problem is, that the Editor filters out PHP scrips automatically, even when I (in the role of an Administrators have ‘unfiltered_html‘ permissions and turned off the visual editor. Who knows a solution to that? Maybe I really have to install the Role Manager Plugin, as recommanded in the FAQ for WP-Syntax.
On the other hand, I’m not going to post a lot of PHP code, so I can live with that.
On the last Friday of every month codecentric hosts its “Fridaymeeting”. It’s a good opportunity to spend time from everybodys 20%-time contingent for professional development and discuss news in technology, products or other interesting topics. Every now and then we also invite companies to present their newest products.
Last Friday Progress Software was our guest; a company less known by their name but rather by their products, like the Java Messaging / Enterprise Service Bus “Sonic MQ/ESB“, or the JDBC/ODBC driver “DataDirect“. Recently Progress was in the news because of the acquisitions of IONA and Mindreef. With these two new companies Progress extends its broad SOA product portfolio, of which Eric Schaumlöffel presented the products “Actional” and “DataXtend SI“.
Read the rest of the article on the codecentric blog.
