Entries from April 2008 ↓

I recently upgrade my WordPress installation to 2.5.1 and this annoying bug showed up. After some reading I installed the no-flash-uploader plugin. This plugin disables the faulty (flash) component and replaces it with a traditional uploader. So now I can upload my files again. But it is rather annoying. And I think more people would agree with me.

I’m not a designer _at_all_ but this post on designing a blog theme is very nice. I really like the copyblogger theme I have now. But maybe I’ll try and create something myself. Because a unique theme for a blog is so much nicer.

Also here a post on typography and five principles of effective web design.

Because I expect a huge, huge demand of my com_resize plugin, I have put it on the wordpress site

Now I hope it gets approved.

You see all the nice (resized) images on my site? I’ve made a plugin for them to be generated. Want I wanted was to add an image in the wordpress editor. Give a height and/or width and that they would be resized automatically.

With proud I introduce my resize plugin: com_resize. Why the name? Because I’ve used the source code from on of my Joomla! mambots. Hence the name.

You can download it here. If you have any question: leave behind a comment.

For installing: just unpack it in the plugins folder and activate the plugin. Your server must have GD installed (or Imagemagick I believe). Maybe I’ll release a version with mod_rewrite supported images. But that’s only if I’m sore bored I don’t what to do else.

I’ve been using WordPress for over two months now and I’ve already written 24 posts! I thinks that’s a nice average.

When I look at my old blog: v2.vanutsteen.nl, I think my average there is about two posts every month or so.

The difference is that I’m now using WordPress instead of Joomla! And WordPress is sooo much simpler for a blogsite then Joomla! You can use Joomla! for your blog. Even with comments and all. But the way WordPress is set up, every moron (as me) can just start blogging. They made it really simple. And they should keep it that way! No fancy stuff in the default wordpress installation. If you want to get fancy, just install all plugins.

I’ve got to plugins installed. One for generating google sitemaps and another for caching my pages. The first one is a bit slow and I really don’t like it. The caching plugin (wp-cache 2) is really nice. Install, activate and go. And my website flies instead of crawling like it first did.

I’m using Joomla! during the day at my job. So Joomla! is buying my bread and paying my house and I know Joomla! through and through. I make webshops, coporate sites, intranets, etc. with Joomla!. But I wouldn’t use it for a blog. WordPress is the way to go!

edit: I saw I haven’t added the sitemap to the above image. So here goes:

• Red: WordPress
• Blue: Joomla!
• Yellow: Drupal

No, it wasn’t the fault of wine. It was my fault. I installed the nvidia drivers from the Nvidia website. Wine then couldn’t find the opengl library and segfauled. So after installing the drivers from the Ubuntu repository it worked again. Now I can play Unreal Tournament again.

Wine still segfaults on me with Hardy Heron! I’m gonna look if this still works:

Does not work (segfaulting):
mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
sudo -i
apt-get build-dep wine && apt-get source --build wine

This does work:
mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
sudo -i
apt-get source wine
cd wine-0.9.55
./configure
make depend && make
sudo make install

(for me)

When we play unreal tournament GOTY it always runs bad on newer machines. One of my collegues found it the problem was the smp support of UT. Disabling all cores except the first on solved the problem. In Linux that’s like doing:

echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online

To get it back online:

echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online

More on cpu hotplugging.

WordPress is a great blog application. It has some nice free templates and the default installation has everything I need without being bloated. I miss one thing: automatic resizing of images who are too big. So I plan on making it myself. Something like this but even simpler (as well in functionality as in configurability).

Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) is released. And they have already provided some netboot/mini images too. I was looking for the jeos images. But that mirror seems down.

Nice! Ubuntu rocks!