Lenfis bLog

Widget support for Reaction Buttons

Jakob Lenfers — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:16:42 +0000

I just uploaded a new version of Reaction Buttons, which features a widget now. In that widget you can show the top x posts with the most clicks for each button.

Coding took less time than putting the new version online, since there are a lot of places where you can set a version and they are parsed directly out of svn by some wordpress magic script. I tagged the new release properly in the svn repository and added the version nubmer as stable in the parsed readme.txt. But I forgot to change the version in the main .php file, which seems to be important too. Thanks to #wordpress on irc.freenode.net for pointing that out.

Download from wordpress.org or directly through the install/update function of wordpress.

Can’t download files from Dokuwiki

Jakob Lenfers — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:12:08 +0000

Recently I found out, that the user documentation videos my colleague made, weren’t shown anymore in our dokuwiki installation and I couldn’t find out why. Everything worked well, pages were shown, but only downloadable media wasn’t. I added a .htaccess for a different project a while ago and allowed them in the apache configuration. But even though I deactivated the new .htaccess file again to test if some of my settings messed with dokuwiki, I still got the following error:

[Tue Mar 02 12:34:14 2010] [error] [client 134.x.y.z] client denied by server configuration: /opt/wiki/data/media/win/printersetup.ogv

What I didn’t knew was, that dokuwiki has some restrictive .htaccess files for file downloads. Just modify them or deactivate .htaccess overrides for dokuwiki again, like I did.

New Reaction Buttons version

Jakob Lenfers — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:34:34 +0000

Yesterday I finally found some time to include cookies into reaction buttons, so that you could push every button only once. Sure, It’s quite easy to circumvent, but without authentication it’s not possible to prevent that. And authenticating before using the buttons would be against their primary idea.

Download from wordpress.org or directly through the update function of wordpress.

Samba+Cups with 64bit Windows clients

Jakob Lenfers — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:04:13 +0000

The new Dell desktops we get at work, don’t come with an Windows XP license anymore. And I guess it’s kinda time to exchange the old XP installations, at least on the new desktops. But now we had the problem, that the current windows cups driver doesn’t support 64bit windows. Solution: Check out the current driver from the subversion repository. (Source)

So, that problem seems solved, but now I need a newer samba version to push the drivers to the clients. I’ve got the current Ubuntu 8.04 LTS version (3.0.28) and as far as I understand, I need a 3.4.x. Now I wait for the new LTS version of Ubuntu, which should arrive in April. Further information:

Mozilla Weave: Why?

Jakob Lenfers — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:51:18 +0000

I read a blog post about Mozilla Weave a few days ago and I’m happy Mozilla developed such a tool. But a few years too late, I’m now hooked completely on XMarks (formerly Foxmarks) and completely satisfied. Does anyone perhaps know, why I should or shouldn’t use Weave instead?

Emacs keybindings in gnome and firefox

Jakob Lenfers — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:14:26 +0000

For those who love their readline/emacs keybindings, you can have firefox and all gtk applications behave a little bit like that. This article describes how easy you can activate it and what keybindings there are. I recently created a new user profile for myself and missed the keybindings I got used to. To activate it under gnome, it’s enough to run the following command and have shortcuts like C-a, C-e or C-k work again.

gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme Emacs --type string

Reaction Buttons on the wordpress plugin site

Jakob Lenfers — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:38:52 +0000

My Reaction Buttons plugin got accepted on the wordpress plugin site. Yeah! I guess thats not too hard, but I’m happy about it anyways. Now you can install Reaction Buttons right out of your wordpress blog, without the hassle of downloading and uploading it to your blog.

Next hing to do is make some colors configurable through the admin menu. Or is CSS enough? Not sure yet.

Wordpress Plugin: Reaction Buttons

Jakob Lenfers — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:21:39 +0000

I finally found time last weekend to try to build my first wordpress plugin. I stumbled across a Blog at bloggers with an interesting little feature: There were a couple of buttons below the post to express your reactions to the post, like “interesting” or “cool”. Since I always like to interact with my readers, especially on my blogs which cover a certain topic, it’s always nice to find ways to make it easier for your readers.

But I couldn’t find a plugin which does that on wordpress and well, long story short, here it is: Reaction Buttons. You can check it out on this very blog and on the screenshot of a clean german wordpress installation below.

Speakers for Dell monitors

Jakob Lenfers — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:05:48 +0000

Today I got my speakers (AX510) for my Dell 24″ screen. They are attached to the bottom of the display and are powered directly through the screens power supply. But since I attached LEDs at the back of my monitor two years ago, I had to take the bottom LEDs down. And that went quite well, I was a bit afraid they wouldn’t come off anymore, but the Tesa PowerStrips did well. Attaching the speakers was done in no time and I hooked them up to my server/second workstation, where I hadn’t had any sound yet. They sound quite nice for small integrated speakers, even though they cannot compare to a real 5.1 speaker system. And now I attached the LEDs again and everything works great.

Problems with VDR

Jakob Lenfers — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:02:17 +0000

Today I re-tagged some of my posts again, because thats the only information the s9y to wordpress script didn’t got. While doing that, I relived some of my pain with the purchase of my vdr. But now I’m home and started chalooby, my vdr in the living room, to see an episode of Sons of Anarchy and realized: My vdr runs pretty damn good. It may not be as flashy and nice as some of the modern HTPC systems, but the feature list (old german post) is still impressive, especially the fact that I can use the tv signal over the network on my second vdr and any other computer in the network. (Working on TV on my android phone though ) And in addition to that, I really hated the company that sold me the hard (and at the time software) for the vdr. But even though they made some pretty bad decisions, the hardware is quite good supported after all. Today and yesterday I worked on a vdr I set up with my colleague for him and we had soo many problems with it over the last two years. First the output to the TV (we tried through the graphic card, a dxr3 and it finally worked after buying a technotrend card), then the display, the remotes and the biggest problem was the automatic power on with an external self made device. He had some problems lately with the vdr and we upgraded the system yesterday. After I got the remote running again, now the automatic power on doesn’t work.

What I’m trying to say is: Yeah my vdr, yeah chalooby, yeah yeti!