LostFocus

A weblog by Dominik Schwind

I have nothing to say, really.

Fuck off.

Bookmarks for June 14th through June 15th

Rivva
The return of @rivva reminds me again how stupid the German blogosphere so often is.
ntrnts
RT @newezra: Single serving, fullscreen animated gifs? Yes! @topherchris's latest blog
Property for sale in Wilsford Cum Lake – Houses for sale in Wilsford Cum Lake
I would not go for a swim nearby these houses. #gnihihihi
Adriano Celentano – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
@tomcoates I remember the Beatles, Joe Cocker, Adriano Celentano and the Spider Murphy Gang.
Spider Murphy Gang – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
@tomcoates I remember the Beatles, Joe Cocker, Adriano Celentano and the Spider Murphy Gang.
Untitled (http://www.lostfocus.de/archives/fun/bahn-it-ler.jpg)
@widenka @johl "Top-Aktuell: EDV im modernen Arbeitsumfeld. "
OmniGraffle Wireframe Stencils | Konigi
Indexhibit
"A web application used to build and maintain an archetypal, invisible website format that combines text, image, movie and sound."
WordPress › Daring Fireball-style Linked List Plugin
Worth having a look at, later. I'm not too sure what to do about the whole link blogging/bookmarking.
Traumatic brain injuries in the Asterix comics
Drowning my sorrows in Tannenzäpfle and old Top Gear episodes. | pixi.li
Drowning my sorrows in Tannenzäpfle and old Top Gear episodes. #fb
Download Go the F–k to Sleep | Adam Mansbach | Go the F–k to Sleep Audio Book UNABRIDGED | Audible Audiobooks | Audible Audio Edition |Audible.com
Go the F–k to Sleep, Narrated by Samuel L Jackson
(404) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/americas/78/default.stm
RT @PRDH: More Britons died on the Titanic because they queued politely for the lifeboats – …
China’s Cell Phone Pirates Are Bringing Down Middle Eastern Governments | Fast Company
Fascinating article about the way Chinese Shanzhai phones are fueling the "Arab Spring"

How to rescue your WordPress-Tag-Feeds when using the FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin

It’s quite popular to use the FeedSmith-Plugin when using FeedBurner with WordPress.1 There is just one little problem: as Google themselves say on their webpage:

Please note that “tag” feeds in later WordPress versions are not supported.

Which just goes to show that they’re a bunch of lazy bums. All you need to do to make the feeds for tags work again is to change this line:

111
if (is_feed() && $feed != 'comments-rss2' && !is_single() && $wp->query_vars['category_name'] == '' && ($withcomments != 1) && trim($feedburner_settings['feedburner_url']) != '') {

into this:

111
if (is_feed() && $feed != 'comments-rss2' && !is_single() && $wp->query_vars['category_name'] == '' && $wp->query_vars['tag'] == '' && ($withcomments != 1) && trim($feedburner_settings['feedburner_url']) != '') {

in the FeedBurner_FeedSmith_Plugin.php.

Voila.

  1. Yay, CamelCase! Well, you’re at LostFocus. Duh. []

Introducing WordPress Hook Sniffer: a Developer Plugin

Introducing WordPress Hook Sniffer: a Developer Plugin

Useful little plugin to reveal the inner workings of WordPress.

tagaroo

Basically, this is just a long test post for the OpenCalais plugin to see if it will find anything. They have a nice blog post about what they are and what they do over here – strangely enough they talk about having 30000 developers using their services but only 50 publishers and 75 entrepreneurs. So what do all the other developers do? [via]

And after writing just this, I am impressed that the plugin notices that I write about “Technology/Internet” but disappointed that it doesn’t offer pretty simple tags like “OpenCalais.”
It does offer me those two pretty pictures, though – they are supposed to be related to my content:


(Image: + Day 47 + Reverse the history, a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (2.0) image from bichxa’s photostream)


(Image: The Fractalius Cat, a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivative-Works (2.0) image from alemdag’s photostream)

The Flickr attributions are not done through the plugin, I’m using this bookmarklet for those.

Elastic Theme Editor

Elastic Theme Editor

Interesting – a wordpress plugin that can create new themes.

The Dirty Web

These are my links for October 11th through October 13th:

There, I fixed it.

Sollte noch jemand das Problem haben, daß das Update des Disqus-Plugins dafür gesorgt hat, daß man gar nicht mehr kommentieren kann – es ist relativ einfach zu reparieren – einfach in der Datei lib/api.php im Plugin-Verzeichnis die Zeile

'state_closed' => ($post->comment_status == 'closed') ? '1' : '0'

in

'state_closed' => '0'

ändern und alle sollten glücklich sein. Naja, bis auf diejenigen, die die Kommentare eigentlich geschlossen haben wollen, aber das soll nicht mein Problem sein. ;)

NoseRub-DevCamps / WordPress-Plugin

Am Wochenende war ich ja auf dem NoseRub-DevCamp und wir waren sehr produktiv – generell war das Motto das Wochenendes ja “Schaffe, nit schwätze,”1 was wir wohl auch ziemlich gut umgesetzt haben.

Meine Hauptenergie ging in das WordPress-Plugin, das seit heute auch einen Platz auf wordpress.org gefunden hat. Die wichtigsten Features (aus meiner Sicht):

  • OpenID-Delegation – man kann jetzt seine Blog-URL als OpenID verwenden, die Technik dahinter liefert die NoseRub-Installation, die man benutzt.
  • Lifestream-Widget und Template-Tag – Hier auch benutzt, leider noch komplett ungestyled, mein CSS stellt da ganz wilde Sachen an.
  • Blogroll-Widget der NoseRub-Kontakte. Praktisch und super. Finde ich. :)
  1. Für alle, die nicht das Glück haben, aus dem allemannischen Sprachraum zu kommen: “Arbeiten, nicht reden.” []

Twitter-Tools

Kann man sich mal anschauen: Twitter-Tools [via franztoo]