Me and my Mac

Posts Tagged ‘experiment’

Plugin internationalization

Currently i’m investigating if it’s worth the hassle to generate translation files for plugins.
I’m orientating on which tools i should use and which are the best.

Any ideas welcome. I use OSX. So Windows based tools will be worthless to me.
I’ll be experimenting with a smaller plugin IF i put this through.

A ton of information here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin#Internationalizing_Your_Plugin

Any help is welcome!

[update]
Well after a few hours of searching i think this is totally doable were it not that there are NO working tools for OSX. So i guess it’s a no go after all. There is Poedit ofcourse. But it keeps writing faulty files or missing headers that are clearly there. It makes no sense and i’m not in the “fixing-other-man’s-crappy-application” business. It’s either missing a header that is present, or it cannot read the UTF-8 charset. Epic fail!

It’s fricken epic!

lol

Found it on some site… And i never uploaded something flash to my website and wanted to see how that went… It was an epic adventure to find out! I now realize i need a flash-embedding-thing if i want to do it again!

I also wanted the noisy flash not to show in the index listing…
And so i went into #wordpress and talked a bit to to simonwheatley_. He suggested to use ‘Shortcodes‘. I had no clue what that was, but it seems it’s a new feature in Wordpress 2.5 and up. Allowing people to use things like [somerandomfunction] in posts and have it do amazing things.

He put together a tiny example. With that and the API i mocked up a quick plugin to get flash embedded yarrr!!
Usage will be a snap:

[hiddenmedia width="384" height="288" url="http://meandmymac.net/wp-content/uploads/its_frickin_epic.swf" loop="true" autoplay="true" urltitle="More after the jump!"]

Is the code for the flash used in this post for example… And most variables will be optional, too. To make it even easier.

I’ll release a version soon i think. Stay tuned.

Syncing 2 Macs, what a pain!

So today for the second time i dove in the internet to find a proper way to keep certain things synchronized on my Macbook Pro and iMac. This seems an impossible dream as the software is either very (in my eyes) expensive/incomplete/stupid or otherwise not what i want.

So to start with iCal (calendars):
So i’ve tried Spanning Sync, it’s ok… But requires google calendar to get things done. And a proper license is $65… Too much. Other than that i had no trouble using it.

I’ve also looked into BusySync, which requires a $25 license… Per computer, wtf? yea! what’s the point if you have to buy it twice for 1 user. Thats just stupid. However, their Bonjour sync works nice! So it’s too expensive but not really out of the question. They should really rethink their sales strategy… And introduce a “home user” thing that allows 2 computers. Their Google sync brought me frustration and anger. I won’t be using that if i get BusySync.

There is some lame bunch of scripts called GCALDeamon, which, again, requires Google calender. Just the sheer amount of time and terminal madness to get it working scared me away. It’s too linux, in fact. There is no Mac software. Just some *edited* Linux distribution. I thought it was awkward and silly. Then i saw the manual and i quickly closed the browser…

Then there is of course Apples solution, dotmac… But damn! $99 for a bit of LAN Only synchronizing per year is nuts. Also i don’t see why i would need internet to sync 2 macs which are maybe 1 feet apart. Seems illogical. For that reason BusySync might be my savior… But 2 licenses. Bah…

Syncing 2 iTunes libraries…
Don’t kid yourself! There is no proper tool for it. And backup/sync apps that can keep 2 folders in sync are weird too because of the new files not being added to iTunes. Just moving files around isn’t gonna cut it… They need to be added to the iTunes library as well. The only app i could find last week (i forgot the name) was some 4 year old thing for OS 10.3. Bah, i say!
I know, i know. It’s all the fault of the record companies. But i bought most of the music or just downloaded it and i want to listen to it. Even if i bought it it’s mine! And i’m (everyone else too!) getting my way anyway, so don’t make it hard and just allow me to sync my library to computers i authorize via iTunes.

Synchronizing your contacts:
This is a lot easier. But still lacks in many ways. Most solutions require Google contacts. What the fuck is up with everyone using Google… Geez, piss off! Macs have this super great and awesome thing called Bonjour, why not use that a bit more to keep things in sync. Or use P2P synchronizing for all i care. Why does Google have to be in between of everything!
Anyway, Also here. no real solution other than SpanningSync (comes in version 2) or Apples AddressBook, google syncing option.

Conclusion:
You would have thought that in the wondrous world of macs there would be a more proper solution for people having multiple macs. Now i’m either stuck with Google or with half assed software that’s either outdated or not working at all (Except for BusySync).