11.24.07
Posted in General at 8:19 am by keith
Taking a look at the date of my last post in this TestBed blog, I am certainly guilty of neglecting this site, for ages! It is about one year (November 2006) since a post was last made (or published) here.
Since, I am doing some spring cleaning on the web server, I might as well perform some script upgrades on this site. There may be few visitors from time to time, but it is still vital to ensure that the scripts are up-to-date, so as to avoid any malicious hacker’s attack or security flaw issue.
Hence, the latest WordPress version is deployed and new plugin versions replacing the old ones. Now, the site is as good as new!
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11.30.06
Posted in General, Leisure at 12:21 pm by keith
This is all part and parcel of the human brains being able to interpret the jumbled up words in a paragraph. A lot of factors come into play, including length of the word, smooth-flowing sentence, the first and last letter placed correctly, commonly used word (and names), etc…
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too.
Cna yuo raed tihs?
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.
Amazing isn’t it? In some way, our human brains work like probabilistic model describing the most probable outcome from a noisy data, such as the paragraph above. It is just amazing how powerful our brains have been trained and adapted to the environment around us.
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10.14.06
Posted in Computing, General, Leisure at 6:30 pm by keith
After looking around the Internet in search of a compatible weblog client, I finally bumped into w.bloggar. As I would suggestion BloGTK for Linux users, Windows users would probably find w.bloggar a good choice for publishing to Blog.
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10.12.06
Posted in Computing, General, Leisure at 10:26 am by keith
This is a trial test to using XML-RPC functionality in MovableType API to submit a post to WordPress. If this works, it is going to be extremely helpful.
Some HTML tags here:
- First unordered list - to ensure it works
- Second in the list - has to work
BloGTK 1.1 is the current version of this engine.
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10.04.06
Posted in Computing, General, Leisure at 10:27 am by keith
Al is an excellent friend; very generous minded and friendly as well. He has great interest in running his own sites, and some of them, such as Coolest Gadgets and SoftSift has soared to great heights after a few months they were launched, particularly the former.
As a programmer by nature, he has also developed a WordPress Gallery Plugin for some of his blog sites. To avoid confusion, there is also another kind of WordPress Gallery plugin in the World Wide Web (WWW), however though the naming is the same, their functionalities are different. Not sure if Al may consider changing the name of his plugin, but the tool that he’s developed is excellent.
The WordPress Gallery Plugin allows blog visitor to see a visual summary of the latest posts. The idea of having this plugin is to generate a post that reflects the summary of the past few posts that the authors of the (WordPress) blog site have made. In terms of search engine rankings, it also helps to provide more internal linking to improve search engine optimisation (SEO) ranking.
Basically, how the plugin works, is very simple. The plugin first generates a new post containing images and links to the latest recent posts made, and these images are scaled properly to thumbnail sizes, so that they look better than just scaling HTML. Since they are scaled, they are much smaller and faster to load. Once generated, the post is marked as draft on your WordPress Dashboard. To post, simply edit that post and click on Publish.
This plugin also has some configurability to the various options, e.g. number of recent posts. Try it out and you will see how simple it looks.
Download Link
I will not put a hotlink to the plugin download here, as I’d like to credit the work done by Al. There are documentations on his site. So, if you are interested in this plugin, check out the original WP Gallery Plugin page.
Examples
Some of the examples are available here:
- SoftSift
- Coolest-Gadgets
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08.04.06
Posted in General at 12:53 am by keith
This post is just an announcement. I have recently upgraded this site to support multi-lingual translation. Thanks to Angsuman Chakraborty’s development of the WordPress Plugin, Automatic Machine Translation. With it, now the site can translate up to eight different languages, including English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Korean.
As you can see on the sidebar to the right, there are 9 flags, each representing different countries, and their respective languages. Simply click on your desired flag and the page will automatically translate the current page into the language of your choice almost instantly.
Unfortunately, there is one small issue with the translator, as subsequent navigation from the current page does not automatically produce the translated versions. Meanwhile, the next release of the plugin is almost to be released. I will just have to wait before upgrading to the next version. So, keep an eye on this site!
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05.06.06
Posted in C/C++, General, Java, Labview, Matlab at 2:33 pm by keith
This is my first genuine post in this Wordpress blog. Personally, I would like to set up this blog site, for some interest group personnels who wish to exchange pointers and discuss some of the functions used in our generally-used programming languages, such as C/C++, Java, Labview, MatLab and so on.
If you are interested in my introduction to these programming languages, do not hesistate to read on.
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02.13.06
Posted in General at 6:00 am by keith
The widget for the Weather Icon for the sidebar has been successfully implemented.
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