This is a demo of the customfield used to create a “photoblog” of sorts. In my “Picture” field I have the names of my 3 images, seperated by “;;;”. A Smarty foreach loop then runs through the list of images. You can find more information in your “Custom Fields” administration page.
Monthly Archives: May 2003
Mozilla Firebird 0.6
A new release of Mozilla Firebird is out.
I tried it. It’s nice, but I prefer Galeon. The fonts don’t look quite as nice (probably need to have the browser compiled specifically for gtk2/xft), and I’ve never liked the tab system Mozilla uses. Galeon does them nicer IMO.
Space Shuttle: The Next Generation
Great speculative article about the Shuttle and Nasa’s plans for the future. The printer friendly version is a bit easier to read, but you miss the nice illustrations.
Roll on anti-gravity engines… (yes, I’ve been reading too much science fiction of late!) [slashdot.org]
New b2++ release – 0.6.1
You can now download the new 0.6.1 release of b2++. I had to add a small fix this morning as I had forgotten that a few database tables had to be created.. Somehow the referer feeder script got left out too. One the disadvantages of doing “diff --brief -r . htdocs | grep -v Only” and releasing code late at night..
Anyway, this one is worth downloading:
1. Fixed random template selection when new blog created.
2. Added Template help template. (Thanks Jim!)
3. Docs to configure Apache were wrong in install.php
4. I’ll try and detect if mod_rewrite is off in the actual install, not after.
5. Added blo.gs “favourites” plugin.
6. Moved lots of backend text into templates.
7. Templatised archives code.
8. Comments popup redirects to a “fresh” url.
9. Added lastupdated templates to default themes.
10. Redirect doesn’t go to index.php now.
11. Added referer plugin.
12. Added option to display comments on weblog.
13. Added b2customfields plugin.
14. Enabled Smiley support.
b2 updates
I’ve updated the blog again:
- b2customfields are now in.
- Smiley support is enabled. 🙂
- Display comments directly on your weblog.
The last two can be switched off in b2options.
b2customfields – Custom post field functionality
b2customfields are next on my list. Mystis created a nice hack that I’m integrating right now!
How to quit smoking cigarettes
There’s no single way to stop smoking. Some people read Alan Carr’s book, others just decide to give them up, yet others suffer a heart attack or other medical condition brought on by their habit. This story should be familiar to lots of smokers out there. Thank God I don’t smoke..
Tum podem extulit horridulum
If you’re in need of impressing someone with your cultured and broad education, you could do worse than look up some latin sayings here. As the page itself states, “Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur!”
Saving Private Lynch story 'flawed'
So, the Americans faked the rescue of Jessica Lynch during the Iraqi War. Surprised?
I watched Black Hawk Down last night and was horrified by it. With the same movie director working on propaganda during the war in Afghanistan, no wonder they made the rescue look good. It’s a shame they left so many witnesses alive to tell the truth afterwards..
font resizing
Russell listed several css designs and css information pages this morning. This page encouraged me to resize my fonts here a bit. I modified the font family, and took them down 10% in size, which should please IE users somewhat. It still looks fine in Galeon and looks better in Mozilla now that I fixed the font-family. What do you think? Are the fonts still too large?