Ubuntu 10.10

By Cohen | Published: September 15, 2010

Coming soon.. sooner than I imagined actually, feels like we only just got 10.3. Its great to see Ubuntu evolve in to a great desktop environment that less technical users can adopt and enjoy too.

The next version of Ubuntu is coming soon

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RB Internal Links v2.0.12

By Cohen | Published: June 10, 2010

A few months since the last update and not a lot has changed, but I’ve finally got around to sorting out the (very) annoying conflict issues. Instead of using wp_enqueue_scripts to load jquery, I’m just including it manually into the tinymce plugin popup.

Now we won’t be plagued by compatibility issues from other plugins!! :)

I’ve had some feedback about the usability of the interface over the last few months. I’m going to come up with some ideas for making it far easier to use, I’d be very interested in more feedback and ideas on how to improve the popup interface. I’m thinking a complete overhaul, with no sliding and a larger area for selecting items but open to all ideas at this stage. Just comment below or post in the forums (http://blograndom.com/links/forum/).

Get the latest version of the plugin from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rb-internal-links/ while its hot.

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Napster web service won’t steam some songs

By Cohen | Published: June 3, 2010

If you’re using the napster web service and find that random songs stop streaming properly, interrupting your (awesome) playlist, there may be a simple fix:

1. Clear your browser cache

If unsure how to do this, please google “clear [browser name] cache”, where browser name is either “Internet Explorer”, “Firefox”, “Chrome”, etc.

2. Clear your flash cache

I didn’t know about this one, but if you browse to the Flash Settings Manager page, you can delete your Flash cache.

3. For good luck, close your browser and re-open it

Seems to have done to trick for me, now I can listen to albums and playlists without playback stopping anymore! Only thing is the issue seems to reproduce itself every now and again.

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PhpMyDiff v0.0.3

By Cohen | Published: May 13, 2010

I had to use PhpMyDiff at work today for this first time in a while and managed to fix up a few bugs. I’ve also implemented a new way of comparing databases if the tables use the MyISAM engine. Rather than having to grab every row from the table and compare row by row, mysql has a CHECKSUM function, which quickly returns the table checksum. If the checksums are different the original process (of grabbing the data) comes back in to play but for databases with only a few table changes, its a huge speed increase.

Given time I’d like to introduce a similar row by row checksum, which should be easy enough for tables with a primary key. PhpMyDiff is still a long way from complete, but it may slowly get there!

Oh, it should also be possible to compare any database type supported by Zend_Db now, although I haven’t had the chance to test this at all. I’m sure something will break, as a few of my queries are probably MySQL specific!!

Feedback would be great if anyone gets the time… check it out at http://code.google.com/p/phpmydiff/

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Looking forward to Ubuntu 10.04…

By Cohen | Published: April 8, 2010

The new design changes coming in Ubuntu 10.04 look awesome, I really can’t wait to try it out. With any luck it will convince more people to give it a try.

Token countdown:

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