Archive pour Décembre 2005

After reading around the forums, trying to upgrade to 2.0.2 and decyphering the content of some of my MySQL tables, I decided the scratch the whole install, delete the MySQL tables and install a fresh new copy of 2.0.2. I kept my pics on the server (I have close to a000), and I’m in the…

If you follow the 2.0 upgrade instructions religiously on the WordPress Codex, you will find that the upgrade is a lot less frightening than what it could seem.

I’m always on the lookout for applications that make use of the Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform). I’m curious to see how far some people can push that framework, and whether the apps are useable or not. I already knew of Owl, the RSS reader. This one is called jBlogEditor and seems to provide a…

Well, like many others, I’ve been really bogged down by the frequent power outages of del.icio.us. I’d been looking for an alternative on SourceForge, but to no avail. Then, I discovered Scuttle earlier today, installed it, imported my del.icio.us feed and killed my account ther, just like I did for Google. The Scuttle user interface…

I think I’ve finally found something I’d been looking for a long time: a decent WYSIWYG editor that’s cross-platform and works well. NVU is very well featured and relatively small to download, which is always a bonus, as I hate bloatware. That’s another one to make my opensource list of keepers for 2006.

After canning my Gmail account, I decided to clean up my act and start using my domain -provided email capability more intelligently. I re-installed Thunderbird on my Thinkpad and configured it to connect using the IMAP protocol. I did the same on my Mac, and enabled automatic synchonization, that way, any changes local or remote…

I believe Google’s quality has somewhat eroded in my view: Google Analytics is slow, never really worked well for my hosted blogs and the fact my domain’s root was empty Google Local does a pretty poor job for Montreal, my home city Gmail‘s interface is something I couldn’t wrap my head around – why I’d…

Great. Just great… I just realized I hosed my Gallery2 installation when playing around with my MySQL installation at my ISP. Must have been when I dropped all those tables created by whatever PHP program I was installing – I think it was some KnowledgeTree – damn you, for not offering the ability to add…

Since I can’t go on for too long without trying some pet projects, I thought I’d give a whirl to Confluence, which is now just out with its V2 of its wiki engine. I’ll try installing it on WAS 6 (duh), so I’ve now got a brand spankin’ new VMware image to try this in.…