Well it's Friday evening so why no to post something most people won't scratch their head about :)
Here's a few pics of my first lava lamp. Well actually I had one running in Dashboard, but the real one is a real deal :) Thanks to my wife who won this one at lottery at her friend's wedding :D
In my previous entry regarding "SSH Login without entering password" I have wrote about how to make it easier to login into SSH servers.
It's all nice, works, and makes life easier. But if you are a Mac user who uses Transmit to log into SFTP servers, there is one very nice side-effect of the technique described in the forementioned entry. You can actually log into your SFTP servers by just typing a server's address, and with not need to enter password, or even login name!
Here's how I connect to my SFTP server:
And after clicking the Connect button…
Voila! No login name, and no password, but I was logged into a server which actually does require a login name, and the password is actually more than 10 characters!
How does it work? Well actually, SFTP connection is a connection using the same mechanism which is used to do an SSH connection (you use the same login and password for both). And Transmit uses the standard OS built-in functions to do this connection. Therefore, once you have set up your computer to be able to login into remote SSH server without entering password, you automatically gain ability to use Transmit to log into the same server using SFTP protocol!
There's one catch though. I have told you that you don't need to enter login name, but actually it is not true :) A name is required in order to login, but if you don't specify it, your current login name is used (which is "mike" in my case), and if login name on remote server is the same as your local one (and it happens that remote server's login name is "mike" too), you are just fine with the default values.
But what you are to do if, say, your local name is "mike", and you have setup an SSH key for, say, server "example.com" as "hosting@example.com" (ie, the user name on the remote hosting is "hosting", and not "mike)? Well, you can override the defaults, and specify which default name you want to use when connecting to which server. In order to do that, you have to edit contents of ~/.ssh/config file (you have to create it if it doesn't exist). For the case above, the contents of the ~/.ssh/config file should read
Host example.com
User hosting
This way, when you connect to the host "example.com" without specifying user name, the default user name "hosting" will be used (thanks to Dave Teare for this hint).
And of course, you can always just specify user name in the Transmit connection window :)
That's it :) Happy name-less and password-less SFTPing ;)
I have updated the EasySWF plugin to version 1.0.1 today. New version contains exactly 2 fixes:
You can download the update here.
More info on the plugin is available here.
Friday last week, we have finally finished working on one site here at Media Japan where I currently work at. An ordinary site actually, but this is the first time we have used WordPress to build anything big.
The site is for construction company here in Nagoya. And the link follows, so you can look at the site and how it works (everything is in Japanese though..):
That's basically all we have done in order to build the forementioned WordPress-driven site. It all might look pretty complicated, and actually it was at the beginning (I never used WordPress to build anything big before), so I had to learn and search, search and learn, write plugins and workarounds. So it took about 2 months to complete this project. But I'm sure our next WordPress-based site will be a breathe to build - all required plugins are found, all missing plugins are written, etc.. Out client is happy and site working very smoothely. What else do I need? :)
So.. it might be a long entry, but the point is - you can build pretty complex sites in WordPress, and it is actually not very hard, and doesn't take lots of time to do that, once you understand the basics of how WordPress works.
Anyway, hope this info will be of use. :)
I have updated my Inline Google Maps plugin to version 1.1 today. The hightlight of the new version is much improved handling of HTML inside the marker description field. You can now basically use any HTML you want for description, unless it contains single quotes :)
Have fun with your maps! :)
There are several plugins to display Flash content for WordPress, but they don't make it easy for a user to insert Flash. They ask you to put some weird tags into your post, set Flash dimensions.. Well… NO MORE OF THIS PAIN! :) (cool CM huh ;) (more…)
Just a beautiful rainbow I took with my mobile phone the other day. There actually was a double rainbow at that exact place just 10 seconds before I shot this one, but the first shot with double rainbow was hopelessly out of focus :(
I am working on another WordPress-based system currently, and have faced a problem when I have many users who can log into WordPress admin panel to post their blog entries. But doing so, they all can see each others posts, even though not being able to edit any post but their own's.
From users point of view, it is not the best thing in the world to look for your own posts in the list, especially if there are lots of users in the system.
So, here's a simple solution for the problem - after logging into the system, non-admin users will be able to only see their own posts in the Admin -> Manage panel. The only thing is that I seems no plugin solultion is possible so you have to add 3 lines to one file.
The file you have to add these lines is located in /wp-admin/edit.php file in your WordPress installation. You have to go to line 150 (or near it, where it says:
if ($posts) {
$bgcolor = '';
foreach ($posts as $post)…..
..etc
Now, just add the following code ABOVE the one mentioned above:
if ($userdata->user_level<10) {
$posts = query_posts("author=".$userdata->ID);
}
So, in the end you will get something like that:
<?php
if ($userdata->user_level<10) {
$posts = query_posts("author=".$userdata->ID);
}if ($posts) {
$bgcolor = '';
foreach ($posts as $post) { start_wp();
$class = ('alternate' == $class) ? '' : 'alternate';
You're done! Now all non-admin users will see only their own posts :) Simple and easy. Have fun.
There are several WordPress plugins for showing Google maps on blog pages exist, but unfortunately, they are all kind of do "too much" :) Like displaying your posts on a Google map, or something like that. What I needed is just a simple plugin which would allow me to embed a Google map into my WordPress blog pages, anywhere I want, preferrably with a single line of simple code. There was nothing like that so I have wrote my own plugin. It's easy to use and install, and works fine so.. here we go :)
