Category: Development

  • Gravatar – Globally Recognized Avatar

    I saw these on Chris Davis’s site (see example in the comments: New Plugin) and they look pretty cool. Gravatar – Globally Recognized Avatar What is a gravatar? A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an 80×80 pixel avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you…

  • Convert Real Player and WMV into AVI then join and encode into new WMV file using Real7ime Converter, Stoik, VirtualDub and Windows Media Encoder

    I was working on a project and needed to combine a Real Player clip together with a Windows Media Player clip into a new WMV file. I was able to use the following software (all free to download and use) to tackle each part. 1) To convert Real Player video to AVI format: Real7ime Converter…

  • Theme Development – Codex

    Theme Development – Codex Introduction The next version of WordPress will have support for user-defined themes built in. Until now, WordPress used index.php and the comment files in conjunction with a CSS stylesheet to control the way it presented the content when published. All other pages, including the category and archive pages, were actually generated…

  • Blog Torrent – Simplified bittorrent by Downhill Battle

    Blog Torrent – Simplified bittorrent by Downhill Battle What is Blog Torrent? Blog Torrent is software that makes it much easier to share and download files using the bittorrent protocol. Blog Torrent is easy to install on your website: we don’t use MySQL so installation is as easy as uploading a folder to your web…

  • find: missing argument to -exec (remove Picasa.ini files)

    So let’s say you just ran Picasa, Google’s new aquisition, and it displays all your pictures great. It’s actually a reall neat little application, pretty slick. However, it is not so slick that it can’t help but leave a (hidden) “Picasa.ini” file in every directory it finds images in. That is mostly fine, except for…

  • WinSCP – Freeware SFTP and SCP client for Windows

    WinSCP – Freeware SFTP and SCP client for Windows WinSCP is an open source SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) and SCP (Secure CoPy) client for Windows using SSH (Secure SHell). Its main function is safe copying of files between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this basic function, WinSCP manages some other actions with…

  • Web File Browser

    Web File Browser Web File Browser is a simple open-source file browser written in PHP (1 single file) that allows users to create, delete, edit, copy, rename, move and upload files and directories thru a light, full-text, web-based interface. We’re using this for Nora Larimer‘s site admin area to handle image uploads. Going to give…

  • GForge CDE : Collaborative Development Environment

    GForge CDE : Collaborative Development Environment GForge helps you manage the entire development life cycle GForge has tools to help your team collaborate, like message forums and mailing lists; tools to create and control access to Source Code Management repositories like CVS and Subversion. GForge automatically creates a repository and controls access to it depending…

  • jEdit – Programmer’s Text Editor

    Gonna give this a try. jEdit – Programmer’s Text Editor jEdit is a mature and well-designed programmer’s text editor that has been in development for over 5 years. While jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use, it is released as free software with full source code, provided under the terms…

  • GPL build process management tools

    Hmm. Only 2 results for a Google search on ‘”build process management” GPL’. The MK – a Configuration Management Concept. “The MK – a Configuration Management Concept.” (mk-3.18.4.ps.gz, mk-3.18.4.html.gz mk-3.18.4.tar.gz) The MK system is a UNIX software package that addresses some of the CMVC (Configuration Management and Version Control) issues. The MK system started primarily…

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