I’ve installed the final release on Windows Vista on one of our family computers. It’s not that exciting, really.
I hate hot weather
22 November 2006Bassoons and hot weather don’t mix. I had two of my reeds virtually die on me today. They’re still usable, but they make a horrible saxophony noise. It’s because they’ve completely dried out. Even my cleaners, which normally stay slightly moist, have dried into shape while lying on the floor. It’s so dry.
User-Agent Sniffing
21 November 2006I think User-Agent sniffing is a bad idea, and here’s why:
Well, a while ago, I discovered that Google Maps had a cool zooming transition when you scrolled your mousewheel. Unfortunately, it didn’t work on Linux for some reason. It was weird, because I was using Firefox on both Windows and Linux, but the gradual zooming only worked on Windows.
I thought it might have been some “speed check” that was preventing the effect running on Linux. Perhaps it wasn’t up to the job? However, I installed a User-Agent changer plugin for Firefox on Linux, changed the OS to lie that it was Windows, ran Google Maps and got the cool zooming effect. It worked perfectly and just as smooth as it was on Windows.
So there you go. Don’t sniff for User-Agents — it’s evil.
Heliodor
15 November 2006While browsing the Beryl SVN, I found a program called “Heliodor”. Curious as to what it did, I Googled it and found that it’s a window manager that integrates with Beryl, but allows you to use your existing Metacity themes for the window decorations.
I then downloaded a pre-compiled deb from a custom beryl-svn repository (knowing my luck with compiling stuff) which I installed. Even after restarting beryl-manager, Heliodor didn’t appear in the window manager list, so I had to close beryl-manager and run it manually.
It seemed to work fine, apart from a slightly deformed minimise button. Other than that, I’m a happy little camper running Metacity themes on Beryl!
Updated FeedBurner Plugin
15 November 2006I’ve patched Steve Smith’s FeedBurner Feed Replacement…again. Get it from the project page.
I’ve fixed two bugs:
- The plugin is now compatible with WordPress 2.1 by making it not use a deprecated function.
- The plugin now no longer confuses the WordPress URL and Blog URL for those with their
index.phpin the root.
The download package comes with a .diff file to see exactly what changes I have made to the original plugin.
