Me and my Mac

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Events and the magic calendar…

A sneak preview:

The idea is to list all event’s per month, all days are clickable to show the events for that day.
Adding of events goes the normal way.

The calendar looks a bit wonky right now and it doesn’t *actually* work yet. But it’s making progress. Slowly!

Pleasantries of a plugin release

I make plugins for WordPress so people like me, sometimes. Until they break, then my forum is crawling. Some even find their way into my IM accounts.

And, well… What can i say –

Not me: “yo!”
Me: “hi”
Not me: “Your plugin is broken! Help!”
Me: “i don’t do support via IM, go to my forum http://forum.at.meandmymac.net”
Not me: “But you must help me!”
Me: “i will, on the forum”

And he, i assume it’s a he, just stops talking and someone with a similar name registers shortly after on my forum.

Not me: “How can i use your plugin on my site?”
Me: “what plugin, i have more than 10″
Not me: “uh…”
Silence
Me: “well? Events or AdRotate?”
Not me: “the one for ads”
Not me: “Adrotator for wordpres”
Me: “AdRotate”
Not me: “How do i use it?”
Not me: “Hello??”
Me: “did you read the manual?”
Not me: “no”
Me: “try that first, http://meandmymac.net/plugins/adrotate/2/”
Not me: “Can’t you help me?”
Me: “i just did, besides i don’t do support via IM, says so on my contact page”
Not me: “You’re a twat”

I don’t see how i’m a twat. Am i? Perhaps i am. After all, he demanded help and i told him to read my manual. But hey, he didn’t introduce himself. Rude!

Not me: “Hello”
Me: “hi”
30 minutes later
Not me: “i like your site”
Me: “cool, which one did you look at”
Not me: “yours”
Me: “meandmymac.net?”
Not me: “your blog”
Me: “…”
Me: “ok”
20 minutes pass, i attempt for a conversation
Me: “so what’s up”
Not me: “?”
Me: “You started a conversation like 45 minutes ago, you must have something to say”
After about an hour, ‘not me’ goes offline

Useless sod! Leave me alone!

Sadly these conversations are all real. None of those people i know a name, sex, or anything specific about. Not that *really* i mind that. Chat is fun, i think. But please… this is horrible. Make an effort people!

Translations for plugins

At the moment only Events has a translation option. But i’ve created a forum for it.
http://forum.at.meandmymac.net/forum/translations

Here you can download the original English PO file to translate and upload your own language to it.
If you do, simply create a new thread and put the file either zipped or as seperate MO/PO files there. Please include both files so other people can add to your translation or continue where you left of.

I will not be reviewing the files as i don’t know any language but English and Dutch. But i will moderate the forum and remove any junk not belonging there.

WordPress 2.9

Today i’ve installed the RC for WordPress 2.9.

While i haven’t tested every bit of the plugins. Events and AdRotate work fine in their current version.
If you however encounter any issues let me know on the forum.

Other plugins are expected to work. But this is, for now, untested. Also here; let me know if anything goes wrong.

SVN on Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server

Today i finally pulled it off. Using Snow Leopards built in Apache and Dav modules.
Also built in is svnserve. A repository server for SubVersioning.

So, with no additional software i now have a Repository for internal use to work on some PHP and related. Woot!

That being said, i have implemented some new features in the AccessQontrol plugin. And perhaps if i keep up the coding spirit for a bit i will release an important update for it. Including many new restrictive features to even better control who or what gets on your site or not.

Among the new things is timezone support, Referer blocking (people coming from a certain site, or set of sites, are not allowed) and User-Agent blocking (a simple filter to block bots or users with a certain browser or OS).

Let’s just see how it goes…