A Few photos from USA
Just a few pics.. :) Lots more to come..
Posts from June 2010
WordPress, What cant it do?
WordPress can do almost everything thanks to its great Plugin API system.. But now and then.. You just have to hack the core code to get what you want..
Left Bank Pictures has taken it a step further however, Welcome to Military hacking.. Strike Back style.
If you’re wondering where/when, It appears at the start and end of Episode 5 of Series 1. The changes have since been merged to WordPress as well/
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- Weapons Guidance System
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- Hacking 1
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- Hacking 2
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- Hacking 3
Second Class Citizen
Occasionally someone will pipe up and make you realise the sad truth amongst web developers, or for that matter, programmers. We are second class citizens in the eyes of many.
Gone are the days where making a computer do something different is cool, No, Now its a job, anyone can do it, you’ve just got to learn to code.. heck, some people are purely programmers for a day job, with no outside interest in it.
There Are No Famous Programmers – Zed A. Shaw (http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1275989245.html)
Let me tell you about this cool new web server. I figured out how to merge the ZeroMQ event polling system with the libtask coroutine library so that you can use libtask to handle tons of TCP/UDP and ZeroMQ sockets in a single thread. I then took this very cool hack, and started building a web server using my Mongrel HTTP parser, but I modified the parser so that the same server on the same port can handle HTTP or Flash XMLSockets transparently. The next step is to get this server to route HTTP and XMLSocket JSON messages to arbitrary ZeroMQ backends. I was inspired by this so much that I registered utu.im and may try to bring it back. Not sure how or when though.Sounds cool right? Totally doesn’t matter one bit. I could hack on projects like this and nobody would care at all because I’m a famous programmer, and there is no such thing as famous programmers. I don’t exist. I’m an enigma.
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And he’s right, Name a “sucessful” startup who you can think of the name of the current CEO, I’m sure you can think of one, Did they write the product you’re associated with them however? In most cases, No. They’re just the ones with the vision, The one with money, The one with the guts to say “This could work!”. Being a programmer isnt enough anymore, you need a masters degree in marketing, A bucket load of cash, and a face to put forward – and face it, you’re not it.
Gone are the days when a single person can be a superstar, without the help from others, you’ll never reach gold; and if you do, be sure your programming days are long gone..
Introducing: “TwentyTen: Remove Max Editor Width”
The new TwentyTen WordPress theme is a pretty awesome theme if you ask me. Written by decent people who know what they’re doing (Unlike many other themes out there — Which whilst shiny on the outside, can be a rabbits nest underneath).
The theme only has one problem to me — and as i’ve noticed, to some other people as well. Infact, Its annoying me right now, just writing this post.
So, What is it?
Its the limitation of limiting your TinyMCE (Thats your visual text editor on the New Post screen) window to 640px. It does have some uses, but for someone like me, just writing text, and not caring about the benefits; can be downright annoying.
Oh, I nearly forgot, It also applies to fullscreen mode. So for people with a 1200px wide monitor.. well.. you get the idea (If you dont, it means, your post will be using the left most 53% of the screen). This is actually a limitation of TinyMCE not being able to distinguish between inline and fullscreen edit modes to be fair, but is still a PITA all the same.
Do try and use it yourself however, I quite like it for aligning images, but not for general purpose posts..
So, Whats the benefit exactly?
Floating images. When was the last time you were writing a blog post, and tried to insert an image, then hit preview, and found it was in a completely different place than you were expecting? And that the text was flowing badly around it? Well, this allows you to have a preview of how the actual post WILL look right in the WordPress new Post administration panel. Pretty cool in general, a downright pain to others.
So, What can i do about it?
I’ve written this short (Seriously, Theres more comments than code in this plugin) plugin which allows your editor to regain its innermost full content width.
You can download the plugin from the WordPress.org repository Here. But since the plugin isn’t actually live yet (awaiting creation) you may download it HERE instead.