I’ve released a new version of the XMP module due to a request by a user. You can now select to use the photo’s “caption” metadata to populate the title of the uploaded photo in Gallery. Download it here.
XMP Module Version 1.3
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Publish on Gallery 3: Out of beta!
Having fixed a bug with the help of Quirin in the forums, I’m releasing Publish On Gallery 3 as a “1.0″ piece of software. The bug fix was to deal with some different URL rewriting conditions that were causing a connection attempt to fail. The method proposed by Quirin was much more general and should work for more rewriting rules.
Automatic Category Lists in FarCry (a la WordPress)
In this tutorial, I want to share how I went about using the <skin:genericNav> tag from FarCry, combined with a custom function, to create an archive of similarly categorized items. This culd be considered similar to WordPress’s category or tag view, in which all the posts matching the category are shown. I’ve extended this idea for FarCry by allowing any number of different types to be shown.
Seamless computing using Windows devices
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Now, some of the actions in this blog post / video are a bit hokey, but the idea of being able to seamlessly go from Windows Phone to Surface to Slate just sounds awesome. This is where Microsoft should spend some more money on.
Gmail copies Outlook
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This made me laugh when I saw it. Yup, gmail is gaining the ability to “preview” your email:
Sometimes, though, I want to see more than snippets, which is why I’m happy to announce that you can now preview messages in your inbox using a new feature in Gmail Labs called Preview Pane. It’s probably a very familiar layout to those of you who have used Gmail on a tablet device.
Sound familiar? Because hey, it seems like Microsoft actually knows what they’re doing with the whole email thing. Who would’ve known.
HTML Editing in Fossil: Tickets, Wiki, Comments & Events
Do you want to use an HTML editor in Fossil, would like semantically correct code that is sanitized appropriately, but don’t want to clutter up your repository with useless javascript, css, and image files? Well, here’s a guide especially for you!
If you’re only interested in the skin configuration for the solution (including the ‘google code’ type styling in use on my repositories), jump here. If you’re interested in integrating things into your own skin, download this zip file, and then follow through the tutorial!
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f.bat or f.exe: sometimes just use the easy solution
This was supposed to be a short topic about running fossil from the command “f”. I mean short – like a paragraph introduction and then some code and bam, done. But noooo, I had to try to out do myself. First, why would I want to use “f” instead of “fossil”? Because I’m lazy. Pure and simple.
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Updating my style
Another summer almost gone. I got back from vacation a couple of weeks ago, and looked over this blog. I realized that when I started, I had meant to do a whole bit on integrating bbPress and Hybrid together into one kickass package. A year later, nothing had happened — it was time for a change.
As you can see, I’ve updated the blog to be more stylish. I did this in a simple way: updated to the default WordPress 3.2 theme: TwentyEleven. Then, I got rid of the header images. And that was it. Well, not quite. There were a couple of issues left to fix:
- WordPress sidebar on single blog posts
- Styling bbPress to look like the default bbPress supported TwentyTen theme.
- WordPress sidebar on anything related to forums
- Updating to the highlight.js syntax highlighting plugin: aka shortcode hell
Highlighting Code & Diffs in Fossil’s UI
In a previous post and associated email on the fossil-users list, I had promised a write-up of how to get nice diff highlighting. Considering how long ago I wrote that post, I think it is obvious I might have forgotten about it. A recent email chain on the same list snapped me out of it. Thanks to this response to my original fossil styling tutorial on the user list, you will find a simple solution that doesn’t require committing anything to your fossil repository that will highlight your source code and your diffs.
Installing Windows 7, aka stupid partitioned USB Key
Having built the HTPC, I now needed to install the operating system. I am a Windows person, so I needed to get my Windows 7 DVD onto a USB key so that I could install it on the HTPC, which had no DVD drive. The only USB key big enough currently had a multiple partition setup going with an Ubuntu install (so I could boot up with my email etc. on most computers). Turns out, that was the first problem.