Phasing out the forum
Written by Arnan on May 15, 2010 – 6:21 pmOver the coming weeks i will be phasing out the forum.
The shortcomings and broken code in BBPress is getting on my nerves.
So, behold! Starting today AdRotate along with some small fixes will be the first plugin to point yousers to a new support platform.
If things work out it will replace the forum. This new system is a ticket system. It requires no accounts from users. And it has a Knowledgebase. Which i am very fond of. Short manuals, descriptions and general information will show up here over time.
This ticket system can be found at http://meandmymac.net/support/ and i encourage everyone to use it and provide with feedback if things are not working or should be done better or differently.
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AdRotate 2.6.1
Written by Arnan on May 15, 2010 – 5:58 pmA small update introducing the new support system i will be using on Meandmymac.net as well as some minor changes and bugfixes.
More information:
http://meandmymac.net/plugins/adrotate/
Download:
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/adrotate.2.6.zip
Changelog:
[update] Support links for meandmymac.net
[fix] Renewal message no longer states renewal of 1 year.
[change] Dashboard Widget, stats are now more relevant and accurate
[fix] Group deletion including all ads gives the right message
[change] New installs now default to the WordPress media browser for images
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Pretty Mining Op in Eve Online!
Written by Arnan on May 4, 2010 – 8:17 pm
Somewhere in the middle is a Capital Industrial Ship, called “orca”. It’s large, has lots of storage space.
Around it are me and some mates mining away at the asteroids scattered in this area. The yellow beams are mining lasers destroying the asteroid belt! HARR!!
We’re gonna make millions today!
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Horrible Documentation == Source of Frustration
Written by Arnan on April 21, 2010 – 11:12 pmToday i was working on some things for my AdRotate plugin. Then a sudden lack of documentation hit me. People on IRC who know nothing. And endless, not working, examples from a million websites made me get highly annoyed, frustrated and very unmotivated to do anything with WordPress.
As so often with WordPress the documentation was lacking. It gave so pointers and an example. Vague explanations as to what the variables to call this or that function could be. Right below the example there was a note that this example was just that and that it should not be used for a real website. Yay! Useless example! No clue as to how it should be done otherwise then!
Soooo, fuck php and WordPress for now! Enough useless non-productive evenings for the time being. Staring at a blank wall would get me further in life i’m sure.
If anyone knows how to properly implement a function (or bunch thereof) to make custom rewrite rules work in WordPress, let me know.
I want to use the $wp_rewrite class of which WP provides an API for plugins.
In the meantime…
*Resumes playing games and doing things that work! Like reading a book.*
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A support ticket system – Your advise?
Written by Arnan on April 14, 2010 – 7:46 pmFor an upcoming project i’m gonna need some simple noob proof ticket/issuetracking system.
I have discussed this matter with my webhost and they claim that on their system there is no option for trac. Which is a pity.
Any system that runs of of a Linux/PHP/CGI server that has an easy interface and works solidly would do really.
There’s gonna be a few developers i nthis project. And users would need to register to submit tickets. Additionally we would like to be able to categorize stuff and have some flexibility with themes (themes are optional).
Preferably we would like to use an free to use system based on PHP.
Currently we have a setup of Flyspray going. It does what we want but it’s a bit clunky and ugly. We’re not sure if it’s gonna hold up.
Any input is welcome! Cheers!
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