Note that Fresh Comments 1.2.1 is out.
I written a little widget for WordPress during my weekend. I call it Fresh Comments after I search in the thesaurus for the word ‘recent’. It wasn’t the best widget around of course, but you can try it out and play around with it if you have got a WordPress blog that supports widgets. You can download WordPress’ widget plugin. (more…)
I made a couple of changes to my blog.
(Akismet caught my spam!)
Firstly, I am most happy with Akismet. It is amazing. You won’t understand the joy of clicking the ‘Delete all’ button on that image above. I smiled after I clicked and waited like a little kid longing to play the new toy when queueing for purchase at the cashier. The feeling is just amazing.
The set up isn’t hard. All you need to do is to upload the plugin and enter the WordPress.com API key. And you’re on. Actually, the WordPress.com API is the hardest part. Read more about Akismet.
I was lazy so it took long. The updating process is simple but as I have made some customizations here and there, I was kinda lazy to check through the PHP files to see what changes I made. Anyway, it is up. I don’t see significant changes. But I do note that there is improved administering interface for adding pages. I can finally click on ‘Save and Continue Editing’ in pages.
(An ajax web poll. It looks pretty good already so I didn’t make any changes to the looks.)
Currently, it reads something like - Do you like polls. I know it sounds dumb. It is dumb. Do sound out if you have any suggestions for the web polls.
A good thing to point out is that the web poll support Ajax. The specifications of an Ajax application is that it updates the servers through JavaScript silently. You can read about the technical specifications at Wikipedia.
I chose Jalenack’s Democracy poll and it’s been working quite well except for the fact that no one responded to my polls.
I think that’s all for updates. See you! I’m going to camp again.
If you get this error message, I’m sorry about it, I am in the process of finding out what the hell happen.
Warning: file(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /home/beconfu/public_html/wp-content/plugins/fishfin.php on line 30
Warning: file(http://beconfused.com/misc/beconfused/taglines.txt): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/beconfu/public_html/wp-content/plugins/fishfin.php on line 30
Sometimes programming can be rather strange. I often think, “didn’t it use to work just a couple of days ago?” It just isn’t working any more and I doubt I changed any setting accidentally because I don’t god-damn know how to.
[Fishfin is a plugin I made. And you thought, "no wonder it's problematic", hahaa...]
*It has been fixed.*
I still don’t know what’s the problem though (I even give 666 for the permission), but I decided not to use a file and just put everything into an array. It works already.