Well, this is my first WordPress theme I have developed. It’s designed for photoblog with nice slideshow. I would like to named it “ZigZag” because it has a zigzag background. Unfortunately there was a theme named “ZigZag” out there.

Since this theme is still premature for the public release and I have no idea for the name. This theme will be releases soon as free but you may checkout the early demo of this theme.

I have few questions on my head about this theme:

1. Is this a good theme?
2. Is anyone willing to have this theme?
3. What features should I include?
4. What name should I gave?

As the older version, FadeIn 2.0 offers a simple and clean layout. The 2.0 has rebuilt from scratch and now the design looks more stylish and neat. As usual, this theme have the full support for Twitter and Flickr widget. The 2.0 layout based on 960.gs for the better view experience.

FadeIn 2.0 offers the multi-colors design scheme, so you may pick which one the best for your eyes. FadeIn 2.0 will be available for WordPress and of course Habari platform. The good news, it’s still free!

Fade 2.0 is planned to be released at New Year 2010, so keep awake.

Introduction

This plugin allow you to display the album cover art from your recent tracks recorded at Last.fm powered by Audioscrobbler on your Habari page.

Requirements

• Habari 0.4.1 or later
• SimpleXML enabled
• GD enabled

Installation

1. Download the plugin ([LINK REMOVED]).
2. Extract the the file to user/plugins in your Habari path.
3. Activate and configure the plugin at the Habari admin page.

Configuration

• Last.fm username – If you don’t have a Last.fm username, get it at Last.fm for free. The web service may take about 5 days to works if you just for first time using the Last.fm.
• Period – The period of record to fetch.
• Records cache path – Cache directory to store the records cache relative to Habari path, make sure it’s writable by webserver.
• Cache expire time – The expiration time of cache in second, 0 also means no cache. Beware your page will slow loading.
• Cover image size – The image size in square dimension.
• Maximum albums – Maximum CD cover images to display, may from 1 to 10.
• Image cache – Would you cache the image in your server or use the original one.
• Image cache path – Cache directory of cover images relative to Habari path, fill it only if the image cache is enable and make sure it’s writable by webserver.
• Default image URL – An URL of image to use as default if the album cover not found.
• Stylesheet class – Select the stylesheet class to apply on the <ul> tag.

Usage

<?php $theme->scrobbler() ?>

Demo

Take a look at the bottom of my home page.

Changelog

Version 0.1 (May 16, 2008)
- Initial release

Version 0.2 (May 17, 2008)
- Fixed handling for not found cover
- Added no cover image option

Version 0.3 (May 20, 2008)
- Improved error handling
- Better handling on 404 response
- Retitled some options
- Added support for recent weekly album chart
- Added period option
- Improved cache handler

“Hey what’s up man?”
“You’re not a lucky guy my friend, me either”

Did you know that the SQLite file format has changed again? At January 10th, 2006 exactly the file format changed to version 3.3, here is the log for it:

Version 3.3.0 uses a new encoding for binary values that uses less disk space. Version 3.3.0 can read and write database files created by prior versions of SQLite. But prior versions of SQLite will not be able to read or write databases created by Version 3.3.0

for complete file format logs, you can read here. Additional log can found on the complete SQLite changes log.

“We’re soo late my friend, it’s more than one month ago”

Current PDO uses SQLite library version 3.2.8undefined, not weird if it unable to works with your SQLite databases those created by SQLite 3.3.x console.

This time and only this time, just use your SQLite 3.2.x console in order to makes your PDO SQLite working properly and your databases safe while waiting for new PDO released. Don’t made any mistakes with open your SQLite created by PDO using SQLite 3.3.x console, if you won’t frustated and don’t get PDO wrong if it happened to you.

“You has been noticed man!“

Several days ago I read private email from Keith Palmer Jr. (the Math_Polynomial lead) about the capitol bug in method calls right on Math_Numerical_RootFinding::factory(). Now all methods calls are using their insensitive-case alias names, some driver file names and class names were renamed into more prety names. Fixed some coding standard mistakes, also added Matthew Fonda as package co-lead.

This version is compatible with the previous version, don’t worry my friend just take a rest and close your code editor, there’s nothing to change. So what are you waiting for? Get it now!

So I’m looking for another lead to bring this package to be more usefull, if you interested on this package, please don’t hesitate to contact me anytime.

I’m waiting for you!