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July 15, 2008 at 18:26 · Filed under Life
There are a couple of “Word like” onsite editors floating around but I need to rant about one stealing my time.
WordPress uses tinyMCE and it works well even while having it’s flaws, you get your work done, there are a couple of plugins to extend it to embed videos and all normal people need so you do not have to switch to the codeview as often.
Then there is the mess called FCKeditor (Best Quote: “the text editor for the internet”).
While it works after you are done installing it. It imposes a hell of design flaws onto you.
- Rather unpleasant configuration with endless options (most people just touch the original sources which just pains you on upgrades)
- It has issues with Word/PlainText and general formatting interoperability
- You simply can NOT use the browser paste menu… Only CTRL+<cmd> shortcuts are working
- Bad OOP architecture, mix of OOP and some crap I simply don’t understand (Yes, they work on it for future 3.0…)
- Hardcore to extend with any plugins/custom functionality, most of the features are not plugins themselfs
- Other stuff combines to bad handling of tag, visual/code switches, spellchecking… (stuff like YouTube embedding is hard to do etc.)
- The documentation only touches the first tidbit of what you actually need to know
Yes, I had to fix issues with it as it was used on a website I was asked to help on and I do not feel like contributing to the original project either as they ripoff people to buy their advanced Filebrowser for something that is designated as a FOSS project in the first place.
An onsite visual editor should end up being useful and allow editors to be productive with it.
Short, I can haz NOT FCKeditor and try to avoid it in your next project!
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July 3, 2008 at 17:25 · Filed under Life
Damn, always had this on my mind but never picked this up…
Checkout “wordle“, a cool word cloud generator.
Only missing features seem to be the lack of a Flash implementation (requires JAVA now) and the inability to directly export the clouds as images (for wallpapers etc.; currently you have to screenshot the clouds…).
Off to Tallinn for a week tomorrow, new work is waiting.
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January 23, 2008 at 14:27 · Filed under Life
Some crab from the internets removed the download links to my Tango Symbian 60 theme. For those who have written me, it’s fixed. Go ahead and give some Tango love to your mobile.
Alongside of that I received a lot of nice feedback on the theme, appreciate it! I’ll fix the small issues like white font color with input fields and more black stroke issues and especially the landscape version soon.
Last but not least for those asking, I am using Carbide.UI on VMWare. It works to some extend “natively” since it is based on Eclipse, however parts of it (such as the tools) are compiled on win32 and NOKIA dev support stated in their official forums that they won’t support Linux due to wasting resources to support a very limited number of developers…
Thinking to create a Summerboard Tango theme (one exists already, however it is not very good) for the iPhone/iPod Touch at times. Alongside I found a note by Nate, one of those early ones in iPhone history who had time and enough brain to hack that thing, that with the new 1.1.3 firmware, Apple appears to already prepare the device’s system for 3rd party applications.
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January 19, 2008 at 19:20 · Filed under Apple, Life, Lounge, Web
I thought that the weeks at NY were a bit crazy, but I had one hell of a weird week down here afterwards. Must have received some injection down there. What a nice timing, right before exams!
By the way, “Die Bank“, which was a full fledged bank for over 100 years, is a pretty nice place with good music for either chilling with the laptop, signing a contract or having some delicious snack with drinks in the heart of Hamburg.
Make sure to check it out if you are around there and take the stairs to the right.
Also had a late business meeting for a new webapp project which I can not talk about here. If done right it will be 2-3 months before Facebook goes down! No, wait, I mean StudiVZ. That german pixel perfect clone of the social giant is enforcing a new commercial-friendly privacy agreement many users don’t like.
Additionally Facebook is soon heading for the one only missing feature before world domination: localization, which will give StudiVZ a hard time. Similar what can be seen with “invest-VC-in-me-coz-I-copy-that-US-site” MyVideo (I won’t even link to those freaks here, sorry!) and their loss/move of the userbase to the recently germanized YouTube. It seems not very likely that two social sites with the same service/application survive in the web 2.0 market.
Anyways, time to fix the promised music thing while we are waiting for Apple to release details about the iPhone/iPod Touch developer SDK. Judging from that blown Macworld Expo drama this Tuesday and charging iPod Touch users $20 for the iPhone apps (Google Maps, Mail, Stocks, Weather, …) means they have not left the best lookout for next month on this topic. Expecting extreme vendor lock-in ala Symbian Signed. Nevertheless below an exclusive video of the new Thinkpad Air, awesome stuff.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHs9AZbumKc[/youtube]
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January 9, 2008 at 00:21 · Filed under Life, Party, travel
Amazing weeks are over. Still starving for NY. Broke my Macbook hard drive. Run around whole Central Park. Met more people than one can handle. Partied at the meat packing district. Food practically everywhere and anytime. U.S. hockey girls on return flight, go girls! Need to shift my biorhythm with a nap. Too much input. Thanks to all I met down there, it was great, take care!
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