Happy Halloween : Google Doodle

Everyone around the world who observes Halloween are now making stuff that scares their friends. TV shows here and there have segments related to the upcoming Halloween.

In Philippines, Halloween or the locally called as "Araw ng mga Patay" is filled also with scary stuff. During my childhood, we share scary stories and make each of us scared to death. In generation today, most of those scary things or related to Halloween are shared in digital way. Some would send halloween comments or halloween quotes to their friends social sites profile such as Facebook, Friendster, Myspace and etc.

If you are looking for halloween comments or halloween quotes you can check the following sites.

• Myspacecomments 
• Glitterbell
  

Google today also made another doodle in relevance to the Halloween. You can also Google halloween comments and halloween quotes to obtain more sites results.

Wordpress debugging : CformsII, Jcarousel and Timthumb

Just blogging my debugging experience  in Wordpress.

First problem encountered : Timthumb.php by Darrent Hoyt not displaying the resized images.

Solution: First thing to do is to check the file permissions properties of the temp/cache folder where your timthumb.php stores its temporary files is set to 777. This is also part of the timthumb instructions so don't hesitate to visit their site. If this doesn't solved your problem, you can also try contacting your host because I noticed it will give an Error 403 or 500 which is particularly in security issues. By searching the Wordpress forum I found a solution at this thread . It was suggested to use relative path of the images. Solution is straightforward, you just have to omit from the path of images your url address and leaving only "/wp-content/uploads/bigs.jpg&w=232&h=158&zc=1". I immediately tried copying the URL of the image and paste it to the address bar of my browser, removed the address of the site with the following sample.

Working
http://www.address.com/wp-content/themes/magiting/functions/timthumb.php?src=/wp-content/uploads/big_boobs.jpg&w=232&h=158&zc=1

Error
http://www.address.com/wp-content/themes/magiting/functions/timthumb.php?src=http://www.address.com/wp-content/uploads/big.jpg&w=232&h=158&zc=1


Second Problem : Conflict between Jquery's plugin Jcarousel and WP plugin CformsII

After the first problem was solved, I noticed another problem from the Jcarousel. Both navigation buttons of the carousel was not displayed eventhough the its background was already loaded. I suspected some javascript or css files are doing it.

What I did was, I copied the source in plain HTML and save it to my local disk. Initially, I removed some css and javascripts pre-loaded by some WP plugins. The last plugins' javascript and css I removed was from Cforms II, upon refreshing the page the navigation buttons of Jcarousel magically appeared again. Until now I'm still looking for solutions to make the Jcarousel gallery and CformsII work together. If anyone have some solutions to this issue please leave your comment.

Converting WP Theme to Drupal Theme

Yesterday, I was surprised to read from Technorati that White House's website will be shifted to popular CMS Drupal which happen to be my favorite when I lost my appetite with Joomla!'s categorization.

Also yesterday, I posted my first experience in converting WP theme to Blogger layout which I worked out last month but got pissed off with the posts display problem. Today, I'm happy to post that my conversion with WP theme Masunurin to Drupal theme is another milestone to me.

For those interested in creating Drupal themes, I suggests reading this tutorial How to Make a Drupal Theme which was my source in converting the Paddsolutions' Masunurin WP theme. Also, you can visit Drupal's Theme guide for more comprehensive documentation.

Tomorrow, I will finalize packaging the said theme for Drupal community to give it a try. I will also capture screenshots and setup its demo site.

My First : Wordpress Theme to Blogger Layout

I have been studying for a month now how to create a Blogger layout but unfortunately I only spend a day then back again after a few weeks or more because of my daytime job. In short, I just did it during my leisure time.

Anyway, here's the screenshot of my amateur conversion of Wordpress theme to Blogger layout which you can visit at Bloggers Templating. During the peak of my conversion, I decided to check some of my resources for Blogger template tutorial and noticed that FalconHive already converted the theme I'm working on. Too bad for me I was late in publishing it earlier. Well, I can't do anything about it now so I decided to continue what I've started last month and post it here instead.

I also checked FalconHive's work, it was awesome, great actually. I didn't even bother to put Tweetmeme plugin in my version because this is just my exploration with Blogger. What makes my version different? Very obvious is the color, I used the magenta/pink version the Masunurin theme of Masunurin Pink of Paddsolutions. And the most is, when you add gadgets in the sidebar, it will have the same styling with the original design.

Last month, I was really having problem creating this because the posts and other contents are not displaying as expected that was also one of the reasons I ended up to nothing. But with the help of the blank template by Kendhin , it works brilliantly. Then, I was able to play around with it a little bit more.

 Here's my version's screenshot.

Here's from FalconHive version of Masunurin Theme

For those interested to download my Masunurin Blogger Theme version just leave a comment. I would also like to acknowledge FalconHive because it has been my resources for learning the Blogger theming.

How to watch TV using your Internet and PC

Have you ever thought of watching TV in front of your computer? Well, for technical person like me that's really possible. First you need a TV card tuner installed into your PC and of course a cable subscription from your local cable service provider. That's quite heavy to handle. You have to add new parts to your computer plus a cable subscription.

Since you already have an Internet connection, have you thought of watching TV online with at least 3,500 channels? No subscription? No monthly fees? No hardware install? Channels from all over the countries?

Doubting it? Well, here are some reviews for you.

REVIEWS
"I was amazed by your large collection of channels, my cable company only had a quarter of your content. Great stuff!"
- Maria C. Albany, NY
"Product was just as described. Big selection of channels and easy to use. A+++"
- Sylvia R. Seattle, WA
"I hooked my computer to my 65" flat screen and now your software works just like my previous satellite dish service, except 100 times cheaper. Thank you!"
- Jason E. Montreal, Canada
"Thanks to your software, I cancelled my costly TV Cable service. Money well spent!"
- Mark D. Manchester, UK


As for my experience, I'm watching Sample Stream: (France 24) during the writing of this post and found no delays at all. How cool is that? I'm in Philippines particularly in Cotabato City which is 3 days away from our capital city Manila by boat while an hour and half more or less away by plane but still enjoying the live streaming.

If you're really insterested you may click here.  You may also visit DishTVforPC to know more.

To do 's during the 2010 Presidential Election in Philippines

Recommended to do's in the upcoming 2010 Presidential Election

• Don't register to Commission on Election
• Don't research more about the Presidential candidates
• Turn off your tv when any news about election are on your on it
  
• Don't participate in any groups related to election
  
• Don't start a topic or discuss with your colleagues pertaining to election
• Don't mark the date of election in your calendar
• Don't bookmark sites related to election
• Don't go to polling precincts
• Finally, don't vote

 

Debug mode 'true' results in Wordpress 2.8.4

I'm not a Wordpress expert myselft but I often asks by friends to do some stuff with it. Recently, I tried debugging some error we encountered with my friends blog using Wordpress. 


Normally, in some CMS or some other web project there's an option to turn on the debug mode for us developers to know what are those error we don't easily see by walking through the lines of codes.


Now, I tried enabling Wordpress' debug mode by adding define('WP_DEBUG',true); at wp_config.php file at the root directory of Wordpress and noticed the following errors:

Notice: get_settings is deprecated since version 0.0! Use get_option() instead. in F:\AppServ\www\projs\wp\wp-includes\functions.php on line 2918.

Well, it won't actually make a huge problem with your Wordpress site using the version 2.8.4 but for compatiblity concern this must be change from its core since 2.8.5 has arrived with security issues addressed already. I believe 2.9 will be coming soon too hope this has been addressed too.