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It's taken me a little over a year to put all my soldiers in a row and finally migrate my personal blog from Wordpress to Habari.This long delay really had nothing to do with Habari or Wordpress, but rather my pedantic desires, constantly changing ideas and the need for me to come up with my own Habari equivalents of Wordpress specific plugins. I also wanted to create my own theme from scratch.In this post I'll detail the steps I took on the road to migrating from my old Wordpress installation to my nice shiny new Habari installation.  Continue reading ►

I've just pushed out a new revision of HB-Cumulus. This isn't a major update, rather another maintenance update in which I've:  Continue reading ►

I've just run through the "Getting Started With JavaFX Technology" tutorial, and in a word: WOW!!!Creating the simple demo was incredibly quick and easy to do and very easy to follow. I didn't time it, but it couldn't have taken me much more than 20 mins to go from nothing to this simple simple working demo (this is just a screenshot of the designer preview window showing my app as I still need to learn how to embed etc and it's probably an overkill to embed the Java applet here anyway):  Continue reading ►

I've just pushed out a new revision of HB-Cumulus. This isn't a major update, rather more of a maintenance update in which I've:  Continue reading ►

I've been battling with Mercurial's precommit hook for a while now trying to get it to do as I wanted, only to find it's not as "pre" as it or the documentation would lead you to believe.I've been using Mercurial now for some time for all my version control needs, including all my web development. One of the things I like to do is ensure the version number in the application/web page is correct and accurate (as I use hg code in production). So I whipped up a quick shell script that took the current repo revision (hg id -n | tr -d '+'), added 1 and then replaced all instances of my version strings with the repo tag (hg tags -q | grep -v tip | head -1) and revision in the form "{tag}r{rev}", eg 1.0r34.The shell script works a treat, but I was finding after running a commit, hg stat still reported several files had been modified, which they had as the precommit script modified them. These were always files I hadn't modified prior to the commit, but were modified by the precommit script.  Continue reading ►

I've had to push out a minor update to HB-Cumulus as I've just discovered a little bug which causes the HB-Cumulus settings to be deleted when another plugin is deactivated.  Continue reading ►

I used to be a text editor PHP/HTML/CSS developer. By text editor, I mean I only ever used a basic editor like Vi/Vim (via ssh), jEdit (at work) and TextMate (at home) for all my development. I've tried several PHP specific IDEs, but could never find one that I felt comfortable with, and that would work with a certain degree of consistency across platforms. However, that's now changed thanks to NetBeans.  Continue reading ►

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you my first Habari plugin: HB-Cumulus.  Continue reading ►

Well, I'm on my way to contributing to Habari and have just submitted my first defect ticket (#332 - Monolith's "Manage %s" doesn't show draft pages or entries) and even supplied a patch containing a possible fix.

Well, after running with ALL options in the wp_options table set to no for autoload for about 3 days, I can say it doesn't really make much difference. If anything, there may be a slight decrease in performance, but nothing broke that I could see, and there really wasn't a significant difference in memory usage either.  Continue reading ►