Coding Day

Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 supports a new feature called microsummaries . It is a kind of smart bookmark feature added to firefox.
However because firefox 2 is beta,  I think they don’t support dynamic files. What it looks for an xml file is the extension xml. As a result it can’t use for the dynamic results as php for our case. I hope that this will be solved on the final product, I just mailed mozilla support team for this issue. Maybe this is by design, but it should support dynamic xml files.

Issues

It’s funny I know, but this plugin is not working This is because  firefox want static xml file. I made this plugin without knowing that, as a result waiting for them to support it.

Installation

To install it. Extract the generator file (microsummary-generator.php) to your plugin folder. And the xml file (microsummary.php) to your blog’s root folder. Then add MicroSummaryBookmark() function to your theme file. Actually this provides the link to be put on your page. So you can put this file wherever you want to see in your page.

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Download

Download Microsummary plugin for wordpress

Downloads: 47 File Name: microsummary.zip

I have the same localization problem with other guys that run binary blue theme. For details, you can read the post about Binary Blue Localization
I try and test from my home computer and the localization works perfect. However my server somehow doesn’t let me to do it. I tried every combination of the naming for the WPLANG and for the PO filename. My site was still displaying in german. So I decided to write a simple utility to convert the main files to the localized files. After 2 hours of hard coding I successed with localization using the PO text file.
Here is the tool to localize binary blue to your language using the PO file.

PO File Integrator

Downloads: 59 File Name: po.zip

To use the program you need to have .Net Framework 2.0 installed. Also you need to download the desired PO file and the theme itself. After that you can run the program to rewrite the files for you.
I don’t know if anybody is interested with the source code, if you do please let me know.

How to use it

• Run the program



• Select folders desired, destination folder should be empty!



• Click Start, and you are done. Copy the files to the default themes location in the web server

Another open source tool appears on the web.
DownloadSquadLink Console: Tabbed command prompt for Windows.

This one is really useful to me. We are using console when we can’t do everything with mouse clicks. For example, we might want to compile a cs from the visual studio command prompt, we can’t do from the normal command prompt because the assemblies are not referenced(of course you can do, but it is not out of the box)

Console is an application that allows you to use the command prompt. Not only the command or cmd but also anything we would like. Here is the settings windows that we do the configurations.

Using the settings window we can add new consoles. Actually we can directly edit the exml file. Here is my xml file configured for visual studio 2003 and 2005 command prompt, and windowspower shell

 
<tabs>
		<tab title="Console">
			<console shell="" init_dir=""/>
			<cursor style="0" r="255" g="255" b="255"/>
			<background type="0" r="0" g="0" b="0">
				<image file="" relative="0" extend="0" position="0">
					<tint opacity="0" r="0" g="0" b="0"/>
				</image>
			</background>
		</tab>
		<tab title="cmd">
			<console shell="cmd.exe" init_dir=""/>
			<cursor style="0" r="255" g="255" b="255"/>
			<background type="2" r="0" g="0" b="0">
				<image file="" relative="0" extend="0" position="0">
					<tint opacity="65" r="0" g="0" b="0"/>
				</image>
			</background>
		</tab>
		<tab title="Windows Power Shell" icon="C:\Program Files\Windows PowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe">
			<console shell="powershell.exe" init_dir=""/>
			<cursor style="8" r="255" g="255" b="255"/>
			<background type="0" r="0" g="0" b="0">
				<image file="" relative="0" extend="0" position="0">
					<tint opacity="0" r="0" g="0" b="0"/>
				</image>
			</background>
		</tab>
		<tab title="Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt">
			<console shell="cmd.exe /k ""C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\vcvarsall.bat"" init_dir=""/>
			<cursor style="11" r="255" g="255" b="255"/>
			<background type="0" r="0" g="0" b="0">
				<image file="" relative="0" extend="0" position="0">
					<tint opacity="0" r="0" g="0" b="0"/>
				</image>
			</background>
		</tab>
		<tab title="Visual Studio .NET 2003 Command Prompt">
			<console shell="cmd.exe /k "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat" init_dir=""/>
			<cursor style="4" r="255" g="255" b="255"/>
			<background type="0" r="0" g="0" b="0">
				<image file="" relative="0" extend="0" position="0">
					<tint opacity="0" r="0" g="0" b="0"/>
				</image>
			</background>
		</tab>
	</tabs>

Here is the result what we get for it.

Very useful and we have got the power of console…

Synergy is a great program that lets you share a single mouse and computer for multiple computers. You still need monitor for working.
Synergy

Settings window

Start dialog

Systray in action

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