An interesting discussion came up in the office today about using the ruby gem inherited_resources. Many people I work with or have worked with love it, they love the fact it dries the controller up does all the stuff they continually have to type. I don’t. Continue reading
I’ve been doing audio production on and off for a while now, I used to make drum & bass and slave in the studio for something to do. Prior to that I made 4/4 hardcore in Fast Tracker II and ModPlug Tracker (yeehaww!). A few years back I got together with a mate to start writing more and just generally have some fun making hip hop. We’re from Perth, we call ourselves Selekt Few.
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Sending RAW SMTP was something I used to do often as a support guy when troubleshooting customer’s email problems. It’s an easy way to check for the existence of a user on a mail server and a simple way to test message sending/receiving. Handy, but for ages I always forgot how to do it and what to type. So, quite a few years ago I wrote up this lovely internal document to help me remember. After switching jobs and doing less and less support I realised I didn’t have it anymore and couldn’t remember it all so I proceeded to re-create it.
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Posted from Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
I haven’t blogged here for ages, lets be honest; it’s almost been a year. I’ve been quietly managing the blog in the background, because blogs don’t just sit there and do nothing; as much as sometimes you want them to. Over the last year I’ve made some huge moves and decisions in my head and to be frank I just haven’t had time to be here. Does it really matter? with posts like this one right now no, but with posts like these.. yes. I’ve neglected my plugin. It still works fine but I think I’ve left a foul taste in some peoples mouths; so sorry for that – there’s new version incoming real soon.
So what’s happened in just under a year that’s kept me away from ITALM and other things?
It seems there may have been a minor issue in the last release of my iTunes Affiliate Link Maker wordpress plugin. Quite simply, if you had an existing install and didn’t have any links in it yet, you may continue to see the upgrade warning/notification no matter what you do. The man known to me only as daykilla has found the bug and nailed a quick solution (top work!) that’ll get you going for now.
If you need to work out what’s going on and how to fix it, head over and check out the post describing it. In the mean time I’ll be releasing an updated 0.5.2 later this evening with that fix and maybe a few extras.
I thought it might be a cool idea to get through a list of applicatons i’m using on the iPhone and what each application does. Sometimes it’s hard to get an idea of what iPhone apps you should try out, so here goes my list.
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Thought i’d take part in LunchDoodle today.
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I’ve just pushed version 0.5.1 of my WordPress plugin iTALM into the WordPress SVN, it should arrive soon enough. If you have any problems please let me know.
The system now works around the shortag [itunes] with the following attributes:
Saying all that you don’t need to type this stuff anyway, because that’s the beauty of the button being in both editors. Select text (it’ll be output as the content attribute) or don’t, click the button, search for what you want (or click manual url) and be quickly prompted through the process. If you enter nothing in the box? It’ll still enter someting like <Artist Name>-<Album name> out for you.
I think this is a nice step forward for the plugin, your feedback is appreciated, the general consensus seems to be to drop feedback over at the article page but i’m now closing that, so please leave your feedback on this post.