WordPress Gallery transformation
The gallery transformation plugin for wordpress that was used in http://cosplay-naruto.com is now released!!
This +1000 lines php script was first intended as a wordpress mod, but as the development progressed, I found that nothing other than what a wordpress plugin can do is needed. So it was converted to a plugin.
Basically, the idea was that wordpress is a very powerful CMS, much more advanced than any gallery CMS like Coppermine, or 4images. The idea then was to convert WordPress to a usable picture gallery CMS without losing the basic functionalities of it, and while keeping it compatible with the majority of the available plugins and themes on the net.
So after months of work, http://cosplay-naruto.com an experimental gallery was built on this plugin, and it had aided a lot to make the WordPress Gallery Transformation what it is today.
To take a look at this plugin, please check cosplay-naruto.com, and please take the time to subscribe there and try some stuff, please be gentle, and report any bugs you may find here
The plugin is downloadable (here gallery.transfromation), Hopefully it will be added to wordpress.org soon enough.
WassUp a great wordpress plugin, at a cost
I have been using Wassup, a wordpress that provides visitor statistics to your blog for about 2 years now. It is great, you can track the keywords that are driving the most traffic to your blog along with your referrals and visitors counts.
The downside is that WassUp collects a lot of data, way too much, and unless you have a killer server, your blog is going to get slower and slower until one day when the MySQL starts crashing on you.
As a matter of fact WassUp provides the ability to choose the data to be record, but if you had all recording options on for a long time, there is no way to delete just useless data, all you can do is delete the records that are older than a certain period.
In My case, the Wassup grew up to be 514,91 Mb (1934468 records) and that is way too much for my humble host. But at the same time, I didn”t want to lose all the records from the last two years. So what I did was to write my own SQL to delete only BOTs and spider visits leaving all real users data intact. The SQL query was:
delete from wp_wassup where `browser` =”;
after taking around 2 minutes to execute, this query deleted 1675315 rows, leaving my blog fresh and fast without losing the important records.
Also do not remember to adjust the WassUp options not to record everything, but only the things you really care to know.
Do you like WassUp, do you know of a better alternative? Tell us your story.
Invitation to google Wave!
Yesterday I got an invitation to google Wave by email:
Hi,
You are being sent this mail because you requested access to the Google
Wave Developer Sandbox. If you would still like a Google Wave Developer
Sandbox account, please fill in this linked form:http://wave.google.com/signups/signup1.html#xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
After filling in this form, you should receive a mail with your account
details within a few days.Hope to see you on Google Wave soon,
- The Google Wave Team
I tried it on Opera and IE 7 and 8 and it was very buggy and slow. I will try it on Google chrome today, stay tuned for updates on this matter.
Did anyone else recieve invitations yesterday or today? did you do anything yet.
Update 1: First Picture of Google Wave. exactly as they presented in the IO conference
Google wave
I did start a wave, but nothing fancy yet, I’m looking up google wave API programming, I WILL BE BACK,
Google Wave
What is Google Wave?
Google Wave is a product that helps users communicate and collaborate on the web. A “wave” is equal parts conversation and document, where users can almost instantly communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Google Wave is also a platform with a rich set of open APIs that allow developers to embed waves in other web services and to build extensions that work inside waves.
For more information about Google Wave, please visit wave.google.com.
source: Google code
not much info about it yet, but as I get it, it is a new open source protocol, this protocol is used to create extensions or embed interactive contents to an existing blog or website.
The big Idea as I see it is to create a communication protocol that allows different social networks, blogging platforms, and other interactive application to exchange data freely and safely.
The project is still in development stage but you can always apply to get access to a sandbox for developers. I am a programmer my self but I dont have the gut to participate in such a worldwide event.
It is decided after I watched the keynote presentation video I’m on fire to join, I just applied for sandbox access, wish me luck!
I don’t know about you but I feel that when this project is done, it will change the face of internet interactivity as we know it. what do you think? 
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