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http://wonderwinds.com/translator/index.php is a 242 installation that exists to support my shiny new translator plugin. Translator doesn't translate, but it helps plugin authors by making a messages.pot file for you, and it helps translators by taking your messages.po file and giving you a _global.php file in return.

If you write or translate plugins go there and register. The "makes messages.pot files" part already works. The "makes _global.php files" part is pretty damned close to working. Being tidy is not happening yet, but hey function over form yah?

Long view: pre-translating files based on finding phrases in your new plugin that have already been translated. Cool eh? So like if your plugin needs "my dog has fleas" and someone else has already translated that string for another plugin then you automagically get that part translated to at least one language. That is way off in the future, but certainly not impossible given the way I've built the initial bits because everything is going into a database table.

Other stuff is in the works as well, but it doesn't work without a community of users sticking their plugins and translations in it. So if you write or translate plugins go there and sign up, and be patient with me about turning on your permissions. I got this stupid piece of shit job I go to is the thing. It pays so good it's almost worth the time it takes away from sittin' here playing with code

It is also Pennsylvania's Democratic primary day, so in theory today would be a great day to plant a candidate but I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to mix your activities like that. At any rate, Hillary is winning Pennsylvania and Barack is winning the nomination and the earth is losing ... well ... everything. Everything except of course the ability to shrug us off like dandruff if need be.

It is also the day my counter officially goes to 3 months straight and sober.

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This is the v2.4.1 version of a hack I did for v2.4.0-RC2. It is effectively the same, and in fact might be exactly the same file, but I wanted to make sure so I started with the v241 file and tweaked it up.

What this hack does is lets you "Make Posts" that show up as a draft instead of automagically publishing them. "Make Posts" refers to a cool trick the file manager can do for you: you upload an image of whatever size via the file manager, and it will automagically downsize it as need be to fit your skin - assuming your skin has the groovy code that makes that happen.

The existing limitations in the Make Posts feature will still exist. For example you can only have one image linked to a post when you "Make Posts" even though after the fact you can add more images in edit mode. That is one of the reasons you want to have the post show up as draft instead of published yah? Another funky thing is that if you use "advanced upload features" when uploading you can preset fields that will be used for the post title, the alt text, and a bit of text as a caption. If you use the quick upload method then "Make Posts" you will get the image name as the post title, which looks like crap. So the idea again is "make it as a draft so I can edit that stuff before it pings".

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This is a fairly pointless upgrade of a fairly pointless hack. All it does is put line breaks in some of the widgets so that when you "view source" you don't get the entire sidebar on one line. Hardly worth doing unless you're into viewing your source page to see what's broken or something like that. Or like fixing a validation issue. Or whatever.

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So you're running b2evolution v241 and you've got a lot of blogs and you just don't want to type in all the blog numbers that you want to aggregate? You wish you could just aggregate ALL the blogs into one blog and be done with it? You can't understand why it can't understand a simple little thing like "All" means "All the blogs that are available in the public blog list"?

Sweeeet. Gotcha covered

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If we get to read one day soon that this stupid fuck had a heart attack and died before he hit the ground I'll buy everyone a beer. (thanks dkos btw)

Got this from Travis: no css for a day. Kinda neat idea yah? A bit late to the party, and obviously there are some things wrong with my site now - other than not having a style sheet - but yeah it's a great way to (a) check out your actual content independent of the dressup and (b) expose yourself in public without undesirable attention from the law.

For example I'm not happy with borders on my button bits. Was happy to pull the stupid "border = 0" thing from the img tag but now it looks like crap. I wonder if that counts as styling or not? And unfortunately my plugins are still dropping styles in. Gonna have to work on a method to attend to that later in the day, which will be a day late and a dollar short but what the fuck: it's fun for a moment or ten.

And a plugin for next year because publicly naked is a good thing

hmmm... this puts off tinkering with stuff I wanted to tinker with today. Like some of the sidebar stuff should also show up on a single post page, but ... it sucks to see the web this way. Oh well!