Monthly Archives: August 2008

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Twitter badge script updated

I just made a small update to the twitter script hosted on this website. For further details read the original post.

PS: For those who don’t know what it is about, very bad! It’s a great, magnificent and brilliant effort to improve the original Twitter Html/JavaScript based badge.

linux

Strange colours on my Ubuntu box

Strange Colors on Ubuntu

Strange Colours on Ubuntu

Quite strange: today I turned on my computer and got this window decoration colours instead of the classic full orange human theme. Anyway it doesn’t look so bad and I could keep it for a couple of day.

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Lost in Translation, aka Gengo and SimpleTags incompatibility

World Flag Quild - by Moab Girl

World Flag Quild - by Moab Girl

As someone noted, this blog and my personal blog have been down for a couple of days. No terrorist attack, no atomic bomb, just a new plugin (Simple Tags) who decided to fight against an other plugin (Gengo) previously installed.

Unfortunately I took a lot of time to figure out the problem, mainly because I’m not the expert of WordPress (now I am), and I got the answer from the Gengo forum, and from another unlucky guy who faced this issue just a couple of weeks before me. I’m not going to apply his solution now because I’m too happy to see everything working again.

And I’m also happy I learnt something about the Gengo plugin. E.g. Gengo uses the following tables in the WordPress database: wp_languages, wp_post2lang, wp_summaries, wp_term2syn, wp_synblocks.

And also that if you re-import your posts and comments using the WordPress XML file, WordPress will not reinsert the posts with the same number and as a result it will be in a mess for the translations.

Update

It works. Now this blog is running both Gengo and Simple Tags.

chicche

Who Developed Linux?

When you make an online test to check your knowledge about Linux and Open Source there could be some very very difficult question to answer. Help me! Which one is the right choice?

Who Developed Linux?