Jake’s Weblog

It looks like WordPress 2.1 is getting closer to being out the door… The WordPress Development blog just made a post to suggest the plugin authors check their code to make sure if it’s naughty or nice. Well, Upcoming Events is somewhere in between. I followed the instructions on WordPress’ site for creating tables in [...]

I’ve actually been trying to figure out how to do this for a while and not having much luck. Here’s my situation: I have a computer that has a CD drive in it, but not a DVD drive. I had previously downloaded the DVD version of Fedora Core 6 in to install it on a [...]

It’s time to make the 3rd release of my Upcoming Events plugin. Updates in this release include: Removed a debugging statement that caused days/weeks to display incorrectly Individual iCal feeds can be immediately updated from the admin page The events list is now valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional The admin page now produces valid XHTML 1.0 [...]

Some may have noticed quite a few updates to my blog in the past couple weeks. In addition to my new Upcoming Events plugin, I’ve also put a new theme up. I found this Iowa Winter 1 theme on themes.wordpress.net. One thing I really liked about this site is that you can specify search criteria [...]

This second release of the Upcoming Events plugin has a couple of fixes that people asked for after the first release. Now supports being used as a widget. Should now work in PHP 4 (had received only moderate testing). This second bullet point will probably excite more people than the first. I’d much appreciate it [...]

I tried living with the trac bug system and it’s just way too limiting. Maybe if you’re the admin it’s configurable enough to live with, but as a normal user I found queries and what-not to be not very robust. So I made a bugzilla install for my projects. Please file bugs here rather than [...]

NOTICE: This is the URL specifically for version 0.1 of this plugin. For all posts related to this plugin, please see the upcoming-events category. Some of you may have noticed a new section in my sidebar labeled “Upcoming Events” for the past week or so. Up until today, it said it was “Powered by a [...]

UPDATE: This is now a page.

This one didn’t take too long to figure out. A little time with Google and I found the solution. There’s a little perl script that came with MythTV that will create an XML file that mythfilldatabase can use to put the icon information into the DB. It ended up just being two commands, though there [...]

I had heard about this thing called MythTV a couple of times when looking at posts on Slashdot, mostly when issues regarding TiVO came up, but I had never looked into it until recently. Then my wife mentioned that she kinda wanted a TiVO and that got me started with a more in depth look. [...]