Archive for July, 2006

Or, in this particular case, a futile attempt at outright deception.

Menu and plugin tweaks indeed! If I believed that, I might never have noticed the ever-so-vital change to line 364 of admin-functions.php.

Posted by Libertus on July 27, 2006 at 11:00 pm under Coding, Education, Reviews, Skills, WordPress.
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Yes, indeed. Praise where praise is due. Microsoft has made available for download a Truetype scalable font designed for programmers. It is monospaced, clear, readable and anti-aliases well. I’ve been using it for a while now on both Windows and Linux.

The kicker for programmers is that the punctuation glyphs are oversized, so avoiding the common problem of having to squint at the screen to tell the difference between a comma and a full-stop,

Behold, and download, Consolas. A picture tells a thousand words.

Continue reading ‘Consolas: A Programmer’s Dream Font, from Microsoft?’ »

Posted by Libertus on July 25, 2006 at 9:21 am under Coding, Pictures, Reviews.
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Today I launched a plugin for WordPress 2 to provide fine-grained and broad-brush access control over your posts, using the existing password-protection system, custom post meta-data and options.

The availability of Access Control plugin for WordPress was first made public by way of this post on the wp-hackers mailing list.

Posted by Libertus on July 20, 2006 at 6:00 pm under Plugins, Publicity, WordPress.
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Automatically Backup All Wordpress Databases On A Server by Niklas Lindblad.

Posted by Libertus on July 9, 2006 at 11:30 am under Coding, Publicity, Skills, Star Posts, WordPress.
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Wow! Another thought inspired by The Cathedral and The Bazaar, by Eric S. Raymond. This time, lessons 3 and 2. If you are not a geek, this post contains Outreach links especially for you.
Continue reading ‘Developing Outreach 2 (requires XSL and HTML Tidy)’ »

Posted by Libertus on July 7, 2006 at 11:00 pm under Outreach, Plugins, Web Standards, WordPress.
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A thought inspired by this message on the wp-hackers mailing list by Mike Purvis, and The Cathedral and The Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond, a few chapters of which I read recently for the first time. Lesson 9 sprang to mind. Then this did. An old defeat.

Continue reading ‘Rewrite Rule Management, or “How To Blow Your Mind With PHP Arrays (or Objects, If You’re Wierd)”’ »

Posted by Libertus on July 7, 2006 at 10:00 pm under Coding, Education, Humour, Skills, Web Standards, WordPress.
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Today there’s a major voluntary effort between the WordPress developers and the wider WordPress user community to test for and hopefully repair bugs in the upcoming 2.0.4 and 2.1 releases of WordPress.

Here’s my contribution. My thanks to leftjustified and the other bug-hunters, without whom all this would have been far less fun. You guys rock!

Continue reading ‘WordPress Bughunt!’ »

Posted by Libertus on July 5, 2006 at 10:21 am under General.
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