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I've accumulated quite a number of tags over time, and it's not always easy to determine if I've used some peculiar tag before. Neither is it undemanding to pick the correct tag out of the list by using the mouse pointer. So, after reading about the Simple Tagging plugin for Wordpress, I decided to add some find-as-you-type functionality to our beloved freetag plugin. It's not yet as sophisticated (feature-laden) as the WP plugin, but it does its job quite well using the WICK library.

Instructions: Download the WICK lib, extract it, and copy wick.js and wick.css to your freetag plugin dir. Then you need to patch two files, serendipity_admin.php in your blog's root dir, and serendipity_event_freetag.php in your freetag plugin dir.

Add something along the lines of

to the HTML head in serendipity_admin.php.

Finally, apply this patch to (the current version of) serendipity_event_freetag.php. Now you should be done. Please report if anything doesn't work and/or if it works perfectly for you.

O-kay, I admit that I need to clean up the comment view HTML a little bit, but until I find the time to do that, it's still looking kind of messy. To brighten everything up I added a little feature for all comments after I stumbled upon those cute monsters yesterday. These monsters appear as a replacement and/or fallback for non-existing Gravatars or Favatars and are unique for each URL. So if you comment on a blog posting and type in a URL that does not provide a favicon, a monster will be generated for you on the fly. Cool, ain't it? You'll probably spot more of these monsters over at NUMBlog. Check it out and tell me if you like it! Source code will be published soon.

I was not aware that del.icio.us offered an easy way to include bookmarks and tags on your website: by pasting a little javascript into the HTML code of your page. But then I received a trackback from Andreas who hacked his blog into displaying a tag cloud based on his del.icio.us account. So I decided to add this nice feature to my Social Bookmarks plugin although you can also achieve this functionality by simply pasting the code into an HTML nugget. But, hey, now it might be even easier for some people

A couple of weeks ago I acquired a new USB WLAN stick for use in my laptop and/or media center PC. Since it was cheap and I couldn't find any negative comments about its Linux compatibility (I just browsed the first couple of google pages -- mistake), I decided to go for Netgear's WG111v2 stick. As I found out here, the stick comes in different flavors, either with a Prism chip, or a Realtek 8187 chip. Luckily, mine had the Realtek chip in it (0846:6a00), so basically everything should work under Linux.

Driver setup went smoothly on my W2K partition, but I had real trouble after booting Linux. First I tried it with Fedora Core 6 which has been a brand new release back then, but couldn't get it to run. Then, after I had installed Ubuntu 6.10 on my trusty ASUS L3500 laptop, I went through it all again, but to no avail.

Just yesterday, I got it to work at last (right after deciding that I sell it on eBay finally -- sweet irony). This blog entry got me on the right track. So, because I searched about every forum on the topic in the past weeks and I found that a lot of people had (or still have) the same problem, here's what I did:

"Netgear WG111v2 USB WLAN Stick on Ubuntu" vollständig lesen

I've recently updated the social bookmarks plugin for Serendipity to version 0.44. There were problems with the feeds that ma.gnolia delivered, i.e. they changed the format of their RSS feeds. This is now fixed. They also now include preview thumbnails of webpages (bookmarked websites that is), which I added as an additional feature. Go and grab the latest version via Spartacus, CVS, or my download page. Feedback should be added to this S9Y forum thread.