Archive for programming
For about eight years now, I’ve been hapily using Crimson Editor. At its simplest, Crimson Editor is nothing more than a fancy Notepad; however, it is so much more than that. While it doesn’t have all sorts of fancy tools that some editors have, it does support customizable syntax highlighting, customizable colors, line number, visible whitespace characters, basic smart indenting, a file/directory navigation pane, project support, and a MDI interface. Those features aren’t really the reason why I use it as almost all programming editors support such features. I use it because it gives me tools that help me program without doing things that hinder my productivity.
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I work for a company that has a proprietary CMS software package written in Perl. We have a number of servers that run this code, and everything has been fine for a number of years and many different versions and customizations. A few months back, something changed. One of our servers started producing completely empty files for all uploads. This affected all of our code, all of our versions, and every site.
After some time debugging and testing, I finally found the problem. Apparently some code was updated, either Perl itself or one of its packages, and that caused my CGI object to be recylced before the upload code ran. When the CGI object gets recylced, all the file handles are closed resulting in reading and saving an empty file.
The solution was deceptively simple. All I had to do was store the CGI object in a persistent variable that has scope throughout the end of the program execution.
WordPress 2.6 allows for moving the wp-content folder and the wp-config.php file. Some code guidelines have been published to help developers standardize their plugins with the new changes. The following code will allow code to work with current versions and the upcoming 2.6.
This time I have a plugin for the masses. WP Easy Uploader will make any WordPress user’s life easier. No longer will you have to rely on FTP to upload new plugins, themes, or random files. Now you can take care of those tasks quickly and easily from the admin screen of WordPress.
For full details, check out WP Easy Uploader’s release page.
Time to release another public plugin into the wild. This plugin is a bit different in that it has nothing to do with how your site looks or operates. As a matter of fact, no one will even know that you have it, but you can rest well knowing that it is just a click away in the admin menu. For you see, WP Developer Assistant is a plugin for developers.
Now some of you may wonder what a developer needs a plugin for. Well, there are lots of reasons. The main one being that it would be a lot nicer if WordPress had a few extra tools that would make a developer’s life a lot easier. For example, being able to run any needed query from inside WordPress, being able to show PHP errors without turning them on for everyone, or uploading files and extracting archives anywhere in the site would be great tools to have, but WordPress doesn’t have anything like that… Until now!
If you are a WordPress developer, you need this plugin. You can find the full details on the WP Developer Assistant page.