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11.07.12
Posted in Blogroll, News, Tech at 7:47 pm by Liv 
I’ve been digging for a while now into how to fix this annoying issue that I’m having with WP-Syntax plugin when writing code which contains less than (<) or greater than (>) — which, let’s face it, if you have an if / while / for in the code is bound to happen! The trouble is that WordPress automatically escapes these (and a few other characters) when pasting code in the visual editor — and since you need to use the <pre> tag with WP-Syntax, from there on these don’t get interpreted by the browser back as HTML entities and you will left with code “decorated” with < and > — needless to point out that makes code unreadable! This has been annoying me for a while now because it means every time I go back to edit code in a previous article, if the code contains < or > I end up screwing up the whole formatting if I switch (by mistake or not) to the visual editor. (As a side note, I love the visual editor, I prefer using it wherever possible — that’s what it’s there in WordPress for: to make lives easier, right?)
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20.01.12
Posted in Blogroll, Tech at 1:11 am by Liv
The title might not be the best, I’ll give you this, however, having just spent some time trying to get Checkstyle to run in the site phase of one of my maven projects I have figured out that a lot of the resources you find out there miss out a few important details. So if you are looking for the complete usage guide of the Maven Checkstyle plugin, this post isn’t what you’re looking for. However, if just like me you found yourself adding the configuration example given on the Maven Checkstyle plugin and then issuing a mvn site only to find out that Checkstyle plugin doesn’t kick in, then this is post is probably for you.
I’m not going to show you here how to configure your Checkstyle rules but rather what you need to include in your pom.xml to actually get the Checkstyle plugin to generate the reports when you issue a mvn site.
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11.01.12
Posted in Blogroll, Fun Time, Random Thoughts at 2:33 pm by Liv
OK, I’ll give you the fact that this is a pretty bold title! I’m not going to talk about the state of banks per se though, why are they struggling in the current climate and/or falling over — I am simply going to talk about the way the banks employees feel about working there (I have touched on this subject before if you remember).
While maybe so far one might have thought the whole thing is based on just a personal feeling of mine, I’ve just been proved that this is not the case — hence this post!
For those of you who use WordPress/Wassup the screenshot below probably says everything, however, a bit of explanation for those of you who might not “get it” straight away. Read the rest of this entry »
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07.10.11
Posted in Blogroll, Random Thoughts, Tech at 2:18 pm by Liv
It’s not often I big up WordPress plugins or extensions, but this one caught my eye: WassUp. I’ve just installed it on my blog a couple of days ago and I am utterly impressed with what this little thing can do! I have got access to my website stats aggregated via awstats and webalizer, however, since for the purpose of my blog I’m not interested in that much level of details, I think WassUp is THE stats plugin for WordPress! I just want to find out quickly for instance if there are any pages 404-ing, what are users searching for to reach my pages (for once, if certain keywords direct users wrongly to my blog, I need to tweak those pages such that they don’t appear in the results on the likes of Google, Microsoft etc — I am happy to have less readers on my blog, but ensure all of those are “qualified” users, rather than increasing my number of hits on the blog but have a huuuuge bounce rate). I want to know what are the top performing pages — and I want to be able to exclude spiders, spammers etc when I pull these stats. And look at this, it does just that — it even signals things like the user has tried to leave comments (and failed! 
) so it’s probably a spammer:
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16.08.11
Posted in Blogroll, News, Tech at 11:34 am by Liv
Some of you might know that I’ve moved to Mac recently (no comment!) — as such I had to ditch the HeidiSQL client for MySQL (booo! why does it only run on Windows????) and had to figure out another handy MySQL client which works on Mac OS X. You can of course use the MySQL Workbench but I found it clunky and not that helpful to be honest. So digging around I found this open source (hence free) client called Sequel Pro: http://www.sequelpro.com . I have to admit it doesn’t yet rival with HeidiSQL but like all the open-source projects, they had to start somewhere so a bit of patience is required.
One of the good things I found about it, is it offers a plugin framework (bundles) which allows you to write your own bundles — and even better, these can be written in Bash script, or, any other scripting language you can shebang from bash. Now that I found to be cool because I don’t want to learn a new scripting/programming language for each product which allows me to write my own plugins.
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