today I’ve released a new version of the Wordpress Plug-in “Autocompleter”.
What is the change?
The new version contains ability to display number of matches per word or phrase in the drop-down. The example is available in this blog (top/left search field). Of course in order to activate this you should go to Admin under the Settings section, where there is an option “Autocompleter”
Bear in mind that ‘number of matches’ are not the posts in the blog, but number of times where the tag or category is used. I would provide small example of this.
Let’s imagine that in your blog you have 3 posts all tagged with Wordpress and one of them is in the WordPress category, while other 2 are in another category.
The result in matches for wordpress would be 4, because there are 3 tags attached to the posts and 1 of the posts is attached to the wordpress category. Hope this make sense to you.
There is also ability to change the word ‘matches’ with your own, or even word in your language.
If you want to play with position of the matches, you could change autocompleter.css from the plug-in directory.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all readers of this blog!
This is my last post for this year and I could say I am pretty happy with the results achieved. There are 42 posts and 311 comments on them. Hopefully some of the posts helped someone, which is the main goal of this blog.
So, next year I hope they will be at least 1.5 times more. (at least I am thinking for stable growth) .
Ok, the main reason for this post is completed, now it’s time to show you what brought me Santa Claus … a second monitor as well as good Video Card with 2 outputs, so now I am working on dual monitor machine. Here is the picture of my new work place:
Adding second screen on Ubuntu is really piece of cake – I was ready to go after 15 min including the HW mounting Hopefully this addition will increase my productivity
That’s all folks. See ya next year! Happy New Year to everyone!
So, I had experience with an UPS Inform GUARD Standby SERIES 1500AP recently. It took me a while to understand that this is not the right model for the server ups solution, but anyway, this give me opportunity to understand something for this part of the hardware which I haven’t had change to touch.
The whole problem is that this ups doesn’t have Auto restart functionality, so if the power is down I can shutdown it, but on the power-on it doesn’t start up automatically, so the next power crash the server is doomed.
According with this I couldn’t manage to find single package which could work properly with this UPS. The nut package clam to support it, but in fact the driver recommended as working was not working at all.
Finally I managed to get signals from the ups with powstatd which is quite low level software. Ok, there are some additional files, but they cannot work with the upstart in Ubuntu. What I managed to get from it was status change in a file with following states: OK, FAIL and LOW.
So, in order to turn these states in actions I just wrote a small bash script, which doing different things on each state change. Read more…
Today I found a new service which could help to designers and developers while they creating the menus for their projects. The site is: www.cssmenubuilder.com and as far I can check from the site’s blog it’s quite new – about a month, but it provide very good service to it’s visitors.
So what is it? As the domain says it’s an online menu generator. The site provide 3 main types of menus: Horizontal and Vertical Menus as well as Breadcrumbs bars. The combinations are unlimited – see what the author said:
Please check out our 30+ horizontal menus, our 700+ vertical menus combinations and our breadcrumb menus that consist of more than 200+ combinations, in total the site offers more than 1000 menu combinations not including the endless color combinations.
Briefly what I like and what I miss in that site:
Great service for people which are too busy to spend hours for building menus. I could say I am one of them
It’s free, no need to register.
Ability for live preview of the menu while doing it.
There is only one thing which missing and it’s multilevel menus, let’s hope this functionality will be available soon.
I definitely will use this service for my future projects. Why don’t you try yourself?
The site: www.cssmenubuilder.com
Yesterday I’ve seen the presentation of this new plug-in and I think it’s quite good! I’ve installed of course and indeed it’s very good! The part which I like is that it’s possible to be extended. Take a look of the video, it’s very good.
Here what the author of the original article say for Ubiquity features:
The overall goals of Ubiquity are to explore how best to:
Empower users to control the web browser with language-based instructions. (With search, users type what they want to find. With Ubiquity, they type what they want to do.)
Enable on-demand, user-generated mashups with existing open Web APIs. (In other words, allowing everyone–not just Web developers–to remix the Web so it fits their needs, no matter what page they are on, or what they are doing.)
Use Trust networks and social constructs to balance security with ease of extensibility.
Today I found a nice CSS framework which claim to solve the multi-column layout issues which everyone of us meet during the construction of the web site design.
Actually I am speaking about YAML – Yet Another Multicolumn Layout. At first time I mix it with Yaml.org, but actually it’s a different thing. It’s a set of CSS files + few image files which would sort the issues with multi-column layouts.
The benefit is the availability of good documentation and nice examples.
Finally Wordpress 2.5 is out and I was encouraged from some blog authors that upgrading doesn’t make any damage to the content or the entire site and voilà – it’s true. I could say – easy like written with CakePHP /couldn’t resist/ .
Now the admin area is quite different and it’s a little bit confusing at this moment, but I like the new design. The upgrade option is awesome – instead of downloading to user’s machine and then uploading to the server with one click you could upgrade your plug-in versions on the fly.
So far all plug-ins are working correctly so far. Here is the list which I am using at the moment:
I always liked such sites. Probably there are a lot of them out there, but recently I found that one – toondoo.com and within 2 weeks I found that they upgrade the service and it become very advanced.
With few words – toondoo.com is a online service which give you ability to build comics by drag and drop elements from the gallery. The features which I like in it:
ability to create your own characters
ability to change character’s mimic and body position
ability to upload images
ability to draw your gestures
ability to edit previous created comics
There a lot more things.
This also inspire me to start my own comics blog. You can find my “art” at comics.chankov.net.
Last Friday I found quite nice service for vectorization of raster images. The service is provided from University of Stanford.
The front end is written in flash or flex and the interface is very intuitive and easy to be used. There are input image detection, quality levels and also ability to edit the preview of the image.
The supported input formats are JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF and EPS, SVG, PNG are the output formats.
The comparison results showing that this tool is better than Adobe and Corel alternatives.
It’s very nice tool I really enjoyed with it /while I tried to vectoring my own portrait /
This service seems to be already very popular – according to their blog there are already 1,000,000 uploads.
Hope you like it too.
Update: The service becomes paid. Although you have 2 free credits while you sign up.
Today I’ve read about Lily. Lily is an open source, browser-based, visual programming environment written in JavaScript. It’s an XPI application which could be executed in Mozilla run-time and of course in FireFox browser.
This application uses JavaScript modules and there are already over 180 ready to be used including UI, Graphical and Sound, Math and various Web services from Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Flickr, Twitter and Digg. There is possibility to write your own modules which give you possibility to expand the functionalities depending from your needs. The applications written with Lily are stored in JSON files, so it is very convenient to exchange applications between users.
The biggest benefit of this application is that you literally connect functional blocks in order to “construct” the application. That’s why it is very intuitive and easy to be understand.
I’ve tried to create a math application and it run quite well. It’s extremely easy to make it, but it was a little bit hart to understand how to run it. Fortunately for every module there is nice and good help with examples written with Lily.
What I really like in this application and strongly recommend you to take a look on it.
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