http://rmarsh.com Spirituality and Theology Mon, 12 May 2008 22:02:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Edel McClean offers these reflections: Readings: James 1:1-11, Psalm 118, Mark 8:11-13 The liturgical title for today is Monday of the Sixth Week of Ordinary Time. Ordinary Time. A quick look at ordinary in the dictionary tells us 'unexceptional, plain, uninteresting'. It seems a little like what the Pharisees ... http://rmarsh.com/2008/05/12/monday-week-6-year-ii/ Similar Posts v.2.5b28 has just been posted. Working on Similar Posts I have learned more than I care to know about the vagaries of MySQL, PHP, and Unicode. One particular issue that has so far resisted my attempts has been the satisfactory handling of content in Chinese, Korean, or Japanese (CJK). ... http://rmarsh.com/2008/05/11/similar-posts-and-pentecost/ Since bug reports for the post plugins have dwindled to a slow drip I thought I ought to make some substantial changes in the latest version (2.5b25) and get the flow going again... In previous versions the {image} tag did its resizing just by changing the tag's width and height ... http://rmarsh.com/2008/05/07/some-big-gish-changes-to-the-post-plugins/ It's not as if you do anything to make it happen but all of a sudden here it is -- 50! So far the day is turning out a lot of fun... http://rmarsh.com/2008/04/30/oops-ever-so-slightly-fifty/ Wooo hoooo! http://rmarsh.com/2008/04/29/feeling-so-very-forty-nine/ The latest beta (2.5b22) attempts to address some of the issues users have been running into when upgrading. It fixes various conflicts with various configurations and tries to be give the upgrader as little work as possible. I will be very interested to hear whether the attempt has worked! If ... http://rmarsh.com/2008/04/19/new-beta-for-similar-posts-plugin/ I've just published version 2.5b15 of the post plugins: Similar Posts, Recent Posts, Random Posts, and Recent Comments. Thank you to all who have found bugs and especially for those who have tested and re-tested when I couldn't reproduce the bug myself. There have been particular problems with the installation of ... http://rmarsh.com/2008/04/08/post-plugins-almost-out-of-beta/ While rebuilding the posts plugins for WordPress 2.5 I became frustrated by the excessive length of their settings pages and more than a little envious of other plugins which managed to split their settings into subpages accessible from a submenu. I pored through more opaque code than is comfortable and ... http://rmarsh.com/2008/03/27/plugin-settings-submenus/ As I've said I've been wrestling with the plugin directory and, as I suspected, the trouble is down to my lack of smarts. Two things to be aware of if you are wanting to host your plugins at the official site: When they say that you should name your tags/releases using ... http://rmarsh.com/2008/03/25/novice-notes-on-the-official-wordpress-plugin-directory/ I saw the film 'Once' tonight. Very moving. Here's a clip with the Oscar-winning song. Glen Hansard - Falling Slowly I don't know you But I want you All the more for that Words fall through me And always fool me And I can't react And games that never amount To more than they're meant Will play themselves out Take this ... http://rmarsh.com/2008/03/24/once/