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One for the Wordpress Users

08/20/2006 • Coding, How To..., Wordpress • 2 Comments

Here’s a little hint for the Wordpress users that smacked me square between the eyes yesterday in one of those “a-hah!” moments while dinking with the theme files for my site.

A lot of people will tuck an “All content © 2003-2006 So-and-so” or similar notice in the footer of their site. If you’re one of those who do, and you’re bugged by the fact that you have to change (or forget to change) the latter year every time a new year rolls around, there’s a quick and simple solution for you.

It dawned on me, since Wordpress themes are based on the PHP language (this works with any PHP based template system really), why not just tuck the date function into my template footer in place of the latter year? That way it will automatically change when it’s supposed to, and I won’t have to remember anything. So, in place of the following:

I simply did this:

Yippie! No more having to remember to change the footer on January 1st.

Overly simple? Yes. Painfully obvious? Only to those further along the path to web development enlightenment than myself. To the other neophytes like me, it’s one of those moments where we start to wonder “If I can do that, could I do this?” I hope this helps to bring one of those moments to your own work, be it for fun or profit.

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Some Public Opinion…

08/18/2006 • Coding, Yasu • 3 Comments

As I round the bend on Yasu 2 development, I’m wrestling with the thought of browser cache removal. Version 1.x simply has a single button to click for all browsers to clear either their cache, downloads, cookies. However, Cache Out X has the option to select individual browsers. A single click option is quick and painless (development wise). A popup selection option is more work on my part, but more flexible for the end user.

Which would you, the user, prefer? A simple one click method that wipes it all out, or a more refined, troubleshooting friendly method of selecting individual browsers of your choice?

I’ll put it to a vote-by-comment census. The majority opinion wins here, so start posting ‘em…

Yasu 1.3.9 Released

08/09/2006 • Coding, Yasu • 2 Comments

A quick note to say Yasu 1.3.9 is released that fixes the recent Intel/PPC app problems. Go grab yours here.

It’s a recommended update for all Tiger users, both Intel and PPC.

New Yasu Release This Evening

08/09/2006 • Coding, Yasu • No Comments

If you’ve been following my posts over at the Yasu development weblog, you know that a show-stopper issue was reported a couple of weeks ago with Intel machines and PPC apps (Rosetta). Basically, after running Yasu on an Intel machine, certain PPC based apps (Photoshop, MS Word) would not launch anymore, requiring a complete application reinstall to solve the problem. My apologies to any and all this may have affected.

I’m happy to announce that the bug has been squashed with the help of some daring individuals, and that a new version of Yasu (1.3.9) for Tiger will be released this evening. I’d do it now, but I’m in the office and don’t have the necessary files to make my disk image for distribution.

This will be the final release of the Yasu 1.x branch, unless some other end-of-the-world bug is discovered before I can get v2 wrapped up.

So, What’s Up with the Yasu Icon Contest?

03/18/2006 • Coding, Yasu • 2 Comments

I’m sure at least one of you is curious to know what happened with the Yasu icon contest, right? Well, I’ll tell you what happened. My domain host is what happened. They’ve had some issues over the past couple of months, and I found that when I went to check the results to make the tally final, I couldn’t access the sub-domain anymore. Everything was still in place as it should be, but no matter what I did to try to get it back, it was a no go. So, I had to just wipe it out completely. Darn…

So, these results are as good as it gets, and are approximate based on what I can remember from the last time I looked at them before the site got hosed:

Jim Mitchell (18 votes)
Yoram Blumenberg (17 votes)
Orignial Yasu Icon (10 votes)

There you have it.

But wait…

yasubyyoram_128px Since the race was so close between my creation and Yoram’s, I’ve decided to go with his instead. It’s a very fine piece of work, and will help to add to his growing portfolio. For those who voted for my icon, will you be miffed if I withdraw my entry and give your votes to the number two result? It’s done specifically to support an up and coming design artist with a load of talent, so you’ll be helping him out more than you would me.