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Twitter and Plurk test

Found two other plugins which will hopefully solve the automatic posting at least as far as Twitter and Plurk goes

They seemed to work when I was editing some other posts on the web-based administration of my blog. This post is now to test if posting from an offline client like Ecto works as well.

The plugins check for the existence of a value assigned to postIDs in the postmeta table of the database. Naturally, if it doesn’t see it, it will go ahead and assume it’s the first time you published the post… which means they’ll post it to Twitter and Plurk then generate the values to mark them as already posted.

That’s fine for any new posts made… but I already have about 800 posts total, and none of them are marked! That would mean editing any of the 700+ older posts would “post” them… we can’t have that now can we? Read More

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WordPress vs MT revisited

Now that it’s been a while since the blog started being powered by WordPress, I figured it was the time to do a comparison of the two systems.

I guess the short of it is that if you don’t need plugins that much… MT would be the better system. It’s highly configurable on it’s stock setting. In other words, you probably can do most content “filtering” with a base install of MT, while you’ll be needing a bunch of plugins on WP to accomplish the same things.

Having said that though, if you need lots of “special” functionality, WordPress can be a practical choice because of the sheer activity of the plugin development community.

For the next post, I’ll be evangelizing a certain plugin-architecture that I think may benefit a lot of WP plugin developers. I’ll also drop some code in to extend and make it more useful. In the meantime, I’ll go through my general opinions of the new system after the switch. Read More

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Now powered by WordPress

Recently, during my downtime, I’ve been slowly migrating the blog to a new system 1 doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what that system is 😉

The “move” wasn’t really prompted by one being superior over the other (i.e. MT vs WP). Truth be told, while migrating it became very clear to me that MovableType was by far the more superior system simply by the way it tackles data-flow processes. The best analogy I could give now is similar to why I still use Windows for my audio recording when I use OS X for everything else: because it’s more practical.

PC audio apps are cracked left and right whereas OS X audio apps aren’t as easy to find. Take out the whole piracy aspect out of it, and we have a similar situation: WordPress has more plugins being developed than MovableType 2 or at least the plugins I use. I initially wanted to upgrade to MT 4.x, but when I looked for the plugins I considered to be indispensable, I found that WordPress was the better choice.

I’ll do another post for my opinion regarding the switch; for now, let me just welcome you to the new system by pointing out the changes. Read More

Notes

Notes
⇡1 doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what that system is 😉
⇡2 or at least the plugins I use
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Mobile OSX 2.2

So updates to the iPhone/iPod Touch OSes were released, and again, it was another one of those “cross your finger” moments of upgrading; making sure everything restores and nothing breaks. In my case, something broke… and I traced it back to the plethora of pre-installed Cydia stuff.

The “fix” was easy once I figured out the problem; simply let Cydia’s core components install from PwnageTool stock setting (because you can manually download the individual components, which is normally useful if the “stock” stuff are outdated. Since PwnageTool was updated specifically for 2.2, I figured it was using the most recent builds.

So simply put, I didn’t include any of the RED tagged components listed below.

I also updated the “list” from the last time since there have been some changes since the last time I analyzed the files.

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Synchronicity

Ok a lot of people have been asking for this. So for all two of you, here’s how to get your multiple Mac machine’s synced up without having to resort to a paid service (e.g. MobileMe) 😉 This is where everything is going… you mark my words.

Now for the obligatory introduction:

As you all know, computers have become more and more integrated into our everyday lives. And apart from the OS, there are some applications that we rely on almost all the time. Mail, Calendars, Addressbooks, etc. And these are constantly updated. And in the era of portable computing, keeping these devices “synchronized” is an important, but difficult task.

I’m here to give you some suggestions on how to deal with such data – because on OS X you can have near-realtime, reliable synchronization for free. Read More