Performancing Your Blog Tuesday 2006-01-24
You may find it somewhat tedious to post entries in your blog. The way it normally works, you have to first log in to your admin or author account before you get to the editor. Now there is the Performancing plugin for Firefox, that you can use to post to your blog ( or blogs if you have more than one to talk to ).
The plugin installs using the normal Firefox procedure, and after a restart you get an icon in the status bar.
When you click on the icon or press F8, the editor dialog presents itself in-line in the current window or in a separate tab.
For every blog where you have authoring rights, you go through a simple wizard to set up the address and authentication data and you are ready to post. It uses the xml-rpc server built into your blogging software to add posts to your blog.
The editor is WYSIWYG and you enter your article, select the category(-ies ) and push the Publish button. When you select your blog, the categories shows up in a handy tabbed sidebar in the editor.
If you know the URL of an image, you kan easily include it in your post.
Chris Garrett has written a clear and short handbook on how to install and use the Performancing blog editor.
If you want an in-line spell checker, he recommends SpellBound, although he gives you a soft warning that is still beta. As I’m not English speaking by birth and habit, I’ll certainly need it.
This post is written and published in Performancing to the WordPress category - Lets see what happened!
( Read my comment 
Live Searchbox
Here is an Ajax live serachbox for WordPress…
And Behaviors
Best Blondie Joke Ever? Sunday 2006-01-22
Let me hear what you think about this.
As BOTD suggests:This may be Best Blonde Joke Ever.
I wouldn’t know being a Swede and all - better see for yourself!
Translate ( -form ) your blog
Sooner or later it had to happen 
The amazing “Taking Your Camera on the Road” Lorelle shows you how to instantly translate your blog from English to eight other languages, including Chinese. More languages to come, she states.
She uses the Google’s language tools for the purpose. It’s a fine initiative, but must be taken with not a grain but a spoon of salt.
The ill famed machine translations still have a long way to go, but with a disclaimer that you shouldn’t believe every translated sentence, it has it’s value. The number of language pairs you can translate between is fairly limited and mostly the original language is English. The interest in MT is great of course and a googling for “machine translation” renders around 19,200,000 results, so efforts are made to bring more language border cross overs and better translations. I wish I could write in Swedish and have good translations to other languages, but for now I’ll just have to wait for this to happen.
If you read Spanish, try this Translation! - The disclaimer above applies
Another J2ME Emulator
Talking to Bartek I realized there is another SourceForge project for emulating mobile Java platforms on and off the web.
The competitor to MicroEmulator is called ME4SE and is distributed under the GPL license scheme.
Performancing - will be killed?
http://performancing.com/ has closed for the day
[ Edit ] It came back up again
WordPress and Google Earth Saturday 2006-01-21
I had a dream the other day, that it would be possible to somehow integrate WordPress with Google Earth to make the strength of the blogging community even better. Then yesterday I stumbled over an article by Podz at his “What makes you happy” blog. He suggests just that and in an afterthought he comes to the conclusion that this si something not only for WP blogger, but for other bloggers too. Why include bloggers on the basis of their platform?
At closer examination, the idea is not as unique as I thought at first. There are already many communities on the globe, the first of them being the Keyhole developers and fan club. I remember my love affair with Google Earth last summer, that made me sleep far to few hours. There were communities of photographers and hunters of beautiful sights and aeroplanes on the globe.
As Ian pointed out in a comment to mine on Podz site, Chris J. Davis is planning to put the sites on the 9rules network on the globe as well.
I think that using Google Earth to enhance the social aspect of blogging would be great. Building social networks where people makes friends over all kind of boundaries requires lots of tools. The pings and trackbacks that relates thoughts and ideas among writers, the blogrolls, the Gravatars and the XFN relational markup are such tools.
One very good article I read on the matter of the social web is Personality and Utopia also by Chris J. Davis.
[ Edit ] If you have installed Google Earth, you can find my place in space here.
Lightbox JS Friday 2006-01-20
Lightbox is good Javascript popping up an image from a thumbnail within the window but above the rest of the page.
Really fine with some good descenders for WordPress and Flickr
Localizing WordPress
Localizing WordPress is easy if a translation already exist. I’ve spent four minutes to change the language to Swedish. Here’s how:
Download the mo-file sv_SE.mo from the WordPress Language File Repository
Copy the file to wp_includes/languages ( I had to create it first )
Edit the wp-config.php, setting define (’WPLANG’, ‘sv_SE’);
That’s it!
Well, not quite. The inherent texts in WordPress, such as links and buttons in the Admin interface and some standard texts in the reader interface are translated. Other texts are defined in the theme and are not translated.
The Web Versioning Race Goes On
Had i just hit the Publish button on a post, humbly ranting the 2.0.x suversioning of the buzzy new web, when I stumbled upon an article by Jeffrey Zeldman at A List Apart, with the scary title “Web 3.0“. I promise to read it and learn whats up the sleeves of the near future demon.
I expect that a googling for Web 4.5 will render some results already, but I daren’t try. I’m a fast learner, but not that fast.
[ Edit ] There’s a lot on peoples mind on this matter; In four days this article has gathered 67 more or less lenghty comments on the LA site - and certainly many more outside, like this one.
Jeffrey thinks the signal to noice level is to low, and that the real benefits of new technology and architecture will obscured by the hype and fuzz over web 2.0. I’m confident it will not, simply because the folks that make beautiful and usable software aren’t impressed by the hype and versioning race. The are too occupied with doing the voodoo that they do so well.
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