About My Days

Wordpress: Now Version 2.6.3 (Subversion)

I upgraded my WordPress installation to version 2.6.3. To make it easier for future updates I used svn to checkout the current version. The next updates should be a simple

svn switch ...

My New Web Gallery

I was not totally content with the gallery plugins for PicasaWeb available for WordPress. So I started to write my own: hbPicasa. I was surised about the ease with which one can write plugins for WordPress.

Here is the principle according to which my plugin works:

1. Load feed describing your PicasaWeb gallery or album.
2. Use XSLT to transform the feed to HTML displaying the gallery or album.
3. Use CSS to manage the layout of the gallery or album.

After just about 6 hours of work, the first version is alive on this website: Gallery (Picasa)

Read on to see the inpost album of my last year visit to Barcelona.

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Posting from iPod touch

Now that I have updated my iPod to Wordpress 2.6.2 the iPhone Wordpress application works with my blog!

Wordpress update

I updated to Wordpress 2.6.2. I was a bit worried, since I had heart from others that ran into problems. But my ride was quite smooth. I just followed the instructions for updating Wordpress. That was it.

The only extra thing to do concerned my theme. My old theme did not support the new Wordpress widgets. So I downloaded a current theme and did some adjustments (new banner, some CSS fiddling for the gallery).

I only need to get some posts flowing to the blog.

Google Maps on my Blog

I added a feature to my blog. I can now add maps to the posts. This utilizes Google Maps and Google AJAX Search API.

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EPGTool

I have a project at SourceForge. It is called EPGTool and contains a hobby project I am doing in my spare time. Its subject is the EPG (electronic program guide) of the VDR (video disk recorder) for Linux.

Have a look! Comments are welcome.