I have just performed an update to Wordpress 2.5 on this site and the update went great, no problems at all. As always there is a whole host of new features available including, but not limited to, revamped administration interface. I havn’t had time to test it fully but it seems as thoug there are some really neat features like the built in Media Library to handle uploaded images, videos etc.

To celebrate this bold move I went out and got myself a fresh new theme as well. I think it’s kind of cosy. Hope you like it.

Get the new Wordpress here.

I’ve been working on this off and on since this summer and I never got around to wrapping it all up. Now I finally made it so far as to making it usable. It’s “Yet-another-wordpress-gallery-plugin” I know, but I’ve been looking for a gallery plugin that suits me and that doesn’t require any third-party gallery software to work. So I jotted down some lines of code and out of that emerged the GDC Gallery plugin.

It’s quite feature less at the moment but I’m working on adding some additional features that are “nice to have”. If you are used to using Gallery2 and it’s WP plugin, GDC Gallery will probably piss you off. It’s not even in the ball park feature wise. You can upload pictures, one by one, and tag them. Thats it for now.

I chose to distribute it now because I want feed back, thoughts and what not before I get too far in the coding. And by releasing it before hand people wanting to learn more about WP coding can follow along more easily. So, head over to the code section and grab a copy. And then let me know of all the quirks and errors it produces.

If you’re a somewhat active web developer you probably have heard about the “Ruby on Rails” web development framework that helps developers speed up development of web apps using a predefined set of functions and code scaffolding etc. “Ruby on Rails” uses the Ruby scripting language as a base, which is quite nice, but if you don’t know, want to know or have time to learn Ruby you are’nt out of luck.

CakePHP is a similar framwork for the PHP scripting language and works in much the same way, from what I have tried at least. It’s an easy way to get up and running with a working application that you can improve on bit by bit as you progress. It won’t solve all your problems and it won’t produce a complete working solution for you but it will get you underway quickly.

I often find myself writing alot of code before hand just to get some “behind the scenes” functionality working so I can start coding the “real” project. By defining the database tables according to the CakePHP naming conventions etc. CakePHP scaffolds code automatically so that more or less without writing any PHP you get working insert, delete and update forms. Oh, and it also handles relationships between tables for you as well.

If you work with PHP and you are looking for an easy way to get results quickly check out CakePHP, link below.

CakePHP : The PHP Rapid Development Framework :: Home

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Ja, jag har gått över till att skriva på svenska. Jag har förstått att ingen läser min blogg och då ser jag ingen anledning till varför jag inte kan begränsa mig.

Brukar normalt inte hetsa upp mig. Detta intalar jag mig i alla fall och säkerställer det för mina bekanta, men det händer då och då att något dyker upp som får mig att krysta och himla med ögonen. Web 2.0 är en sådan sak. Först ett nödvändigt förtydligande, det är inte konceptet Web 2.0 jag har problem med. Min irritation stammar ur all den hype som vissa förvirrade personer försöker skapa. Det verkar för mig som om det i alla lägen ligger en hel drös människor i alla buskar och bara väntar på nästa sköna modeord som de kan ta till sig och börja mjölka.

Nu låter jag säkert som en sådan tråkmåns som vill att allt ska vara tillgängligt och lika och att man minsann måste dela med sig och hela den där jantelagenbiten. Jag är svensk, så det är väl inte förvånande att det smyger sig på. Read the rest of this entry »