Lenfis bLog Computer, Coffee & Co

28Jan/100

WordPress Plugin: Reaction Buttons

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, [...]
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25Nov/090

Speakers for Dell monitors

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 [...]
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4Nov/090

Problems with VDR

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 [...]
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3Nov/090

Moved from Serendipity to WordPress

I just decided that my Serendipity, as much as I liked it in the past, got a bit dusty. That was my fault I guess, but since I write in other blogs with wordpress too, I decided to switch. It was quite easy actually. You don’t really have to mention the installation and the import [...]
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3Nov/09Off

Halloween

My blog is quite dead ATM, I somehow can not or don’t want to find time to blog. But I twitter from time to time, thats much faster than a whole blog entry. But I tried this year to have a small Halloween party and gave some Halloween recipes a try: At first I carved [...]
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21Apr/092

New Ubuntu soon!

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27Jul/081

rails, acts_as_rateable, will_paginate and efficient sorting

Forget what I said here, it’s really inefficient… I just stumbled upon (or actually really searched for) a article, which describes an easy way to cache the rating and make searches as performant as it was before we put the rating into an extra table. Only thing I had to add was a method to [...]
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24Jul/083

rails, acts_as_rateable, will_paginate and sorting

Today I added will_paginate into my application (damn, that was easy! ). Yesterday I added acts_as_rateable with a cool web2.0 css star rating system. Not that easy, but a cool feature. And then I wanted to combine those two. I couldn’t find any nice ways of doing this, but until someone tells me a better [...]
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