Here is a WordPress plugin that I had almost forgot about only to “rediscover” it during an upgrade of WordPress. The main reason being that it is a drop in replacement for Rochus Wolff Endnotes plugin which I didn’t realized that I had replaced. The main difference is that the drop in replacement don’t need any hacking done to wp-include/functions.php and has a simpler implementation.
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I just want to give a shout-out to the software, LilyPond, that I used to produce the notation in yesterdays post.
February 27, 2007 – 10:55
Ok, I must just post something. Otherwise it will just become even more embarrassing when the message “upgrade postponed” sits on top for a whole month and I’ve upgraded not once, but twice, in that time frame. Not that I have much to tell, I’ve some things that I plan to post but couldn’t find the time to finish due to lack of time. But there will be more installments (O’ Hyperbole!) of Redesign Chronicles to come. Also on my ToDo-list is the rel-link WordPress plugin that is still semi-broken and needs fixing.
I’m going to upgrade WordPress to the latest 2.1 version this weekend. Not that it should matter to you or the day to day business of this blog. I just want to mention it because I will not get around updating my own plugins and widgets, of which one is reported broken, until after the upgrade.
As you may notice, the site is back. No more “WordPress Error” screen. The reason it went down was a scheduled upgrade of MySQL from 4.0 to 4.1.
The blog will be down today January 19th at 15:00 due to planned maintenance. The reason is an upgrade of MySQL.
I can’t figure out why the PNG transparency wont apply to the artwork in my previous “Redesign Chronicle” when viewing the post in IE6 — despite the fact that I’m using Dean Edwards IE7 script and the files end in -trans.png. Arrrgh!
Update: I’ve cracked it! Turned out that it was the PNG files themselves. The illustrations were drawn with Inkscape as vector graphics (SVG to be precise) and rasterized as PNG with the softwares own bitmap exporter. However, Inkscape seem to produce PNG files that Internet Explorer doesn’t like and the transparency bugfix can’t do anything about. But the solution was simple: just open each PNG file in Gimp and re-save it. Of course, I could also have opened each SVG file in Gimp and saved the PNGs from there.