Amasan – Common sense 2.0

Commentary on Digital Media and Usability

[Plugin: WP List Files] Fix: links don’t work when blog not installed in root of site

June 26th, 2009 ·

We’re using a customized version of WordPress as an electronic portfolio for students and we are using WP List Files to make documents available on the eportfolio. Unfortunately the WordPress support forums seem to delete my topic (possibly because it’s an older version) and the author is no longer supporting the plugin.
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Letter to Ministry of Sound

October 28th, 2008 ·

Dear sir/madam,
I am writing you to complain about the new ministry of sound website and the lack of data protection with regards to your users.
Earlier today I received an email notification about the new MoS website. The email also notified me that a new password was issued to use on the website. These are two [...]

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Fixing Trac after upgrading VisualSVN

October 22nd, 2008 ·

If you upgraded VisualSVN Server like I have today to 1.61 and have Trac installed as per VisualSvn+Trac then you’ll notice Trac stopped working.
To fix this, follow this part of the instructions:
Add following line at the top of file C:\Program Files\VisualSVN Server\httpd-wrapper.bat:

set PYTHONHOME=%~dp0\Trac\python

Update: Later updates to VisualSvn Server break Trac.

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TracFogbugzPlugin 0.9u-py2.5 Patch for Trac 0.11

October 15th, 2008 ·

If you use both VisualSvn + Trac (or another flavour of Subversion and Trac), and tried to integrate them with Fogbugz , you will have tried the TracFogbugzPlugin.
Trying to get this to work isn’t straightforward as it’s not compatible with Trac 0.11. You will come across the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\trac\web\api.py”, line [...]

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Passing and receiving multiple values to VbScript functions

October 9th, 2008 ·

Maintaining code can be a real pain in backside. Especially when you’re using shared code, almost always at a later date you will want to make the code more versatile to accommodate a scenario you hadn’t thought of before.
I’ve had experience this in an ASP / VbScript environment, and therefore I’m going to use the [...]

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Rewarding feedback

August 4th, 2008 ·

Acquiring feedback on web projects can be harder than you’d think, especially when you’re working on internal projects that don’t get discussed on outside your organization. By making feedback a fun, easy and rewarding thing to do more people might be encouraged to help us and put in the effort.
I’m sure some of you are [...]

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Youtube Dreamweaver CS3 Tips

April 28th, 2008 ·

Brian Wood presents an excellent Dreamweaver tips video on Youtube. Many people just use DW as a text-editor but it’s capable of a lot more even in code view. The following video might open your eyes:

Very nice.

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