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Archive 23. April 2005
Borland open sources JBuilder - wow. I didn't see that coming - it's basically a surrender. Can Borland stay afloat without JBuilder?
Nikon responds to RAW WB concerns
Nikon responds to the discussion about the encrypted RAW WB data - and only proves that they don't understand. Sorry, but the whole thing is full of arrogance and self-congratulation, but doesn't say anything else than that customers who bought a professional camera are bullied in their choice of software by Nikon.
If everything is really so professional and great and good: why does even Adobe have problems? Maybe because Nikon doesn't keep up with their silly promises?
And what about open source software - should photographers who bought a Nikon camera be excluded from open source due to absurd ideas of professionalism at Nikon? The result instead is the confirmation of all prejudices against RAW formats (proprietary, not future-proof).
Really professional would be the complete documentation of the NEF format, so that the RAW format is not a dead end for the photographer.
Striped Calendar for WordPress
First plugin from my picture blog (now out) is the Strip Calendar. Basically a normal WordPress calendar - only not as a block for the sidebar, but as a strip to place it over the content. Since you usually have more space to waste in the length of a page than in the width and since someone might want to break with the rather worn-out format where the calendar is in a sidebar, you can now simply install the strip calendar. The code for installation is trivial:
< ?php get_strip_calendar(); ?> ```
Just put this in the header.php or wherever you want the calendar. Done (of course first unpack the plugin to wp-content/plugins/ and activate it in the administration!).Virtual Hosts with WordPress
The Vhost Plugin is my current favorite of the entries for the WordPress Plugin Competition. With this plugin, you can bind categories to virtual hosts - when this host is accessed, the appropriate category is automatically displayed and optionally, a different template can be applied to this combination.
I can think of a whole range of ideas spontaneously - for example, I could put my Bananenrepublik under it and present my rants as more independent content. Or I could finally run my photographic entries under one of my photo domains again. I think I'll play around with the plugin soon.
Another funny feature - but rather uninteresting for me - is the possibility to restrict a user to a VHost (and thus to a category) and set up a multi-blog platform on a WordPress installation. Could be quite funny for family blogs, for example.
Unfortunately, the installation is a bit tricky - you have to patch a few functions because there are bugs in the standard installation. With WP 1.5.1, this should hopefully be better.
The WordPress Versioning Plugin allows versioning of entries - i.e. articles and pages. This way, you can revert to an old version if necessary.