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09.08.2010

Export blogs

posted by Karsten

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I’ve been investigating solutions for exporting blogs from Redgloo to elsewhere.
I’ve already added the functionlity to export your own blog posts as rss in one single rss file. This however doesn’t export comments, nor is it possible to export any access restricted material.
It seems feasible, by using rss2.php under mod/blog, to create an export facility which creates an extended WordPress rss feed to allow easy export to WordPress. This would allow export of comments and potentially tags as categories.
Some discussion would also be needed regarding access restricted material.

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03.02.2010

Happy days – New computer!

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DHL is at the moment handling my new computer, and it should arrive today!! I could start to sing, so therefore I’m writing on my EU bid from home this morning 🙂

Here are the specs of the new beast:

Processor (CPU)

  • Intel® Coreâ„¢2 Quad Q9500 (2.83GHz) 1333MHz FSB/6MB Cache

Memory (RAM)

  • 4GB CORSAIR XMS2 DUAL-DDR2 800MHz

Motherboard

  • ASUS® P5QPL-AM: DDR2, S-ATA II, 1 x PCI-E x16, 2 PCI

USB Options

  • 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS (4 REAR + 2 FRONT) AS STANDARD

Memory – 1st Hard Disk

  • 1TB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 16MB CACHE (7,200rpm)

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive

  • 22x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Graphics Card:

  • 1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTS250 PCI EXPRESS

Sound Card:

  • ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Network Facilities:

  • ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT

Memory Card Reader:

  • INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (READS XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) Case

Power Supply & Case Cooling:

  • 600W Quiet Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case FanProcessor Cooling
  • SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE CPU COOLER

All in a STYLISH BLACK/SILVER TRIDENT CASE + 2 FRONT USB. Yum yum :o)

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27.01.2010

Just received this mail

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Just received this clever little mail:

 

The University of Reading,
Whiteknights, PO Box 217,
READING, Berkshire, RG6 6AH

URGENT SECURITY UPDATE – JANUARY 2010

Due to the excessive spam emails received by most users in 2009, we have upgraded to an advanced server for your premium security to prevent spam from getting to your inbox. As a result of this, it is important that you login to your email using the link below, to make sure that your account information is up-to-date.

Click Here to Protect Your Account (Removed link)

This email has been sent to all 2010 University of Reading Webmail users and it is mandatory to follow.

Thank you for your cooperation.

IT Department
Copyright © 1999-2010 University of Reading

 

Just three problems.

  • Firstly the link although very well hidden, but nonetheless, was pointing at a url in a ".net" ending domain.
  • Secondly our IT department normally calls itself ITS
  • Thirdly the spam filter is, if anything, way TOO good – absolutely no need for any updates there – as this was my first spam in my spam box for a week, and I have the filter set on the absolute lowest level of filtering. It has even retained important mails for me in the past…
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27.01.2010

Where to post?!

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So now it is my turn to have that question…

I’m not, as you’ll notice from my RedGloo postings, the most productive blogger in the world. And I’ve tried to keep my blogs to a limited number of places, where it has been making sense where a certain blog should go. For instance MUVE related stuff has gone to either LLL3D or MUVEnation, other work related stuff has gone to here, and private stuff, well at the moment facebook, but for a time it went to my private webdomain, which ended looking like I didn’t have a life, so I removed the blog, and has kept it as a static webpage.

But now I have the problem, where I feel like I should have one single repository of blogs, which then are distributed to the different blogging platforms on demand with a shared pool of comments. Linksphere has been introduced! It’s a social network intended for researchers at UoR, which has been set up by my friend and colleague Pat, who is reminding me what a good idea it is to blog there – yet the same post could easily have been posted here…

This is all good, but now I have this blogging sense of multiple personalities, which I somehow have to sort out in my head… 😉

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09.01.2010

Relevant Spam

posted by Karsten

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What should we do with spam, which is actually vaguely relevant?

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13.12.2009

Christmas Party – Soup preparation

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You might have noticed – It is (almost) Christmas! Therefore the time is nigh for the annual Odinlab Scandinavian Themed Christmas Party – Yay!

The actual party is tomorrow, but today I’m starting the preparations. I”m going to make a traditional Danish “Klar Hønsekøds Suppe”. This is a long process (takes 5-6 hours) with additional preparation of “Tartelletter” (actually the main reason for making the soup) and other bi-products of the soup. I’m a bit scared of this, as I rarely make this soup, and I would utterly hate it, if all this effort was wasted.

Wish me luck – I’m always more confident in front of the keyboard than the kitchen utilities 8)

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25.11.2009

Javascript widget

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I’ve now finalised the Javascript Widget for RedGloo, so that you for instance can embed Google Gadgets. You can see a Pacman game example on my profile page.

Remember that Javascript is powerful, and thus a bit dangerous. Don’t add stupid stuff please! We enable this, because you could have embedded javascript in the templates anyway, now you just have a bit more flexibility…

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19.11.2009

RedGloo meets Facebook

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I've added a facebook sharing button underneath blogposts. This should make it easier to make posts on RedGloo and then share it on facebook afterwards, and indeed share interesting blogs by others if you fancy that…

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16.11.2009

Fish Tank

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I'd like to highlight the fact that RedGloo allows you to change the template of your blog. Therefore I've added a Gooogle Widget fish tank to my site instead of the RedGloo banner.

We decided to allow this, so that you guys can be as creative as you like – and perhaps learn a little bit about web dev in the process… To start changing you just go to "Account Settings" and press change theme, and you'll get to a page with the templates you have available. You can easily create a new template based on another one, apply the changes you want, and preview it before you actually apply it to you page (or any of the communities you "own")

BTW I might soon add a Javascript widget, because that would allow even more innovation, and the risks in a normal site would be minimal, as we'd know who'd done something seriously bad if that were to happen – and you already could do harm if you really wanted to in a template 😉 

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09.11.2009

The Arrival of Wave

posted by Karsten

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I’ve created a wave widget for RedGloo 8)

The easiest way to see how it looks is to go to my profile.

You can set one up yourself, if you have access to the wave system. The easiest way to get the needed wave panel and wave id that is needed to setup the plugin is probably to invite the embeddy robot (embeddy@appspot.com) to the wave. It will give you all the needed info (albreit in a script).

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