Wesley's Tool-Box - News:WDSoft

New s9y plug-in: Comics

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:29:07 +0900

You'll notice that there's a webcomic on top of the website. This is implemented by the new plug-in I made, named "Comics." It shows the latest comic on top of the front page, and adds a navigation link on the bottom of the comic so you can go to the first / previous / next / latest comic available.

The functionalities are simple at the moment, but I think it gets the job done, so I decided to officially release it on SourceForge CVS. Refer to the README file for details. As always, SF CVS web view has a few hours of delay, so come back later if it's not showing up yet.

Oh, and the comic. It's called "The Toon-Box" as a parody of the website name. I have thousands of images from my digital camera archive and I decided that this may be the best way to present it. Hope you like it. I plan to have it as a daily feature.

Google quicksearch plug-in

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:24:00 +0900

Since s9y's default quicksearch plug-in indexes only the default language, Korean versions of the pages were mostly ignored. But because Google indexes the website every couple of days, including the Korean pages, I've decided to make the Google search function into a plug-in. It appears in the sidebar looking like the quicksearch, but the search results page is generated by Google. For best results and functionality, it is recommended to be used with a Google AdSense account.

Google Quicksearch plug-in is downloadable at SourceForge CVS.

Korean support out-of-box: s9y 0.8.3

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 02:31:26 +0900

The new point release of Serendipity (s9y), version 0.8.3, came out a few hours ago, which can be found in the official download page. This marks the first official s9y release with full Korean support, completed by yours truly. Previously, the first s9y version with such support was to be the next major release, 0.9. I have already noted this in my previous post. However, I thought it would be better to have this come out sooner than later, so I backported the changes to the 0.8 branch, and naturally the new release came out with the changes integrated.

Of course, the new version also comes with an ample set of security patches and bugfixes, making it a recommended update. My 'HTML Nugget on Page' plugin can now function fully with this version because
a new hook intended for 0.9 was backported and is part of 0.8.3. Complete information related to the 0.8.3 version update can be found in the official s9y blog.

Serendipity has full Korean support

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:51:05 +0900

Administration page snapshot

I have just finished all the Korean translations for the core s9y package in the trunk. That includes the main language file, all the plug-ins, and the Kubrick template which needs a separate language file. They're available in the SVN trunk now, and should come with subsequent nightly snapshots and eventually, 0.9 release.

When I started using s9y 3 weeks ago, Korean localization had been effectively nonexistant. Now I believe it has the become on par with the German and English versions for the package itself. With the translation in place, I think s9y can cater to a wider audience - there have been very few Korean folks using s9y at this moment probably due to the lack of Korean support.

Still messing up with plug-ins

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:26:15 +0900

I'm trying to have more freedom on where the items that comprise the website can be put. The page nugget plug-in now boasts five possible locations (one of them needs the latest s9y SVN). The plug-in that shows the previous and next entry links for a given entry has been modified so that the links can be placed on the bottom of the entry instead of just on top. You might notice that these modifications have taken effect on this website already.

More nuggets, less filling

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 04:05:42 +0900

I've created/modified both the 'page' type and the 'sidebar' type HTML nugget plug-ins so that the nuggets can be configured to be shown only under a specified language. Simply put, I can utilize this to have different navbar or sidebar for each language of my website, thus making it more 'localized' than before.

Oh, and starting with the 'new' articles on this website, I've decided to actually use that 'extended body' function. Instead of the whole article showing on the overview, only the first part will be shown. This is done so that the main page won't become too long. I think it looks nicer. I'm not sure what to do for the older articles yet.

HTML nugget anywhere?!

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:40:33 +0900

As noted in my previous entry, I made a plug-in that would let me place an HTML nugget on the top of the entry page. It was nice... but the fact that it's limited to showing up on the entry page only and that it's only for the top of the page, made it limited in its usefulness.

So after much wrestling with the code, I have re-written the plug-in so that it can place the HTML nugget on the top, on the bottom, or even inside the HEAD tag. And it can be configured to show on the entry page, the overview page, or both. All the flexibility of the original HTML nugget plug-in, but in more locations.

The plug-in is now called HTML Nugget on Page. It should appear on the SourceForge CVS as serendipity_event_page_nugget soon.

"Choose Language" flexibility!

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:19:28 +0900

Big chart.

Okay, I think it confuses the heck out of many people to have the 'Choose Language' sidebar showing... 23 language options. So what did I do? Modify the plugin so I can choose what language to show on the dropdown box.

Box on the left (click for larger image) shows how it looks like from the admin screen. Since this blog is currently written in English and Korean only, I disabled all the other languages from selection. I may re-enable other languages if I get motivated enough to write in other languages, such as Japanese.

I have the plugin modification (now version 1.3) committed to the Sourceforge CVS. It takes a while before it shows up on the web, so come back later if the plugin is still version 1.2.

Korean localizations in s9y SVN/CVS

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:42:10 +0900

The Korean localization data I've done is now in the main trunk of the s9y SVN at BerliOS, so it should be readily available starting with next release. The plugins' localizations are also in their respective SourceForge CVS trees. I recommend that the folks needing the localizations get them from these distributions from now on, since I now have access for updating them there.

s9y BerliOS SVN (language file in trunk/lang/)
s9y plugins SourceForge CVS

The Tool-Box custom s9y pack

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:19:00 +0900

The Tool-Box custom s9y pack contains various modifications done to plugins as well as the Toolbox theme that I made for use with this website. All files ending with 'copy' are original versions of the files. Unzip the whole thing and copy the files to the appropriate s9y folders. Simple folder replacing in Finder may delete all other files in the folder so beware.

~~DOWNLOAD HERE~~
UPDATE: See Here

- lang
English language: the CHAR_SET is changed from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8.
Korean language: COMPLETELY written from scratch and is 100% up-to-date with s9y 0.8.2.

-plugins
event_entry_entrypaging
event_multilingual
event_staticpage
plugin_multilingual
plugin_staticpage

-> See NOTES for details. Mostly adding Korean support and putting some fixes.

-templates
default: plugin_staticpage.tpl is for using staticpage plugin and is the original file.
toolbox: the official Tool-Box.info theme 'Toolbox'.

Moving to New Server

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Sat, 22 Jun 2002 19:01:00 +0900

The hosting company Netsgo, in which the websites of Wesley's World including this one was home to, will close its service at the end of this month. Therefore, Wesley's World websites are being moved to Wesley Chung's main domain, www.wesleyc.com. This site can now be reached at www.wesleyc.com/soft/. You can continue to reach this site by www.wdsoft.com address.

[69920] - New Address

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:40:00 +0900

After exactly 8 years, WDSoft.com moves again to a new address. Refer to Contact Info page for more information.

Completely New Site Design!

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Thu, 22 Nov 2001 23:00:00 +0900

The much needed revamp of the site design has finally been done! The 5-year-old design that had been around since the very beginning of the site was deemed too archaic.

[56097] - Hardware Product Update

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Wed, 30 May 2001 00:00:00 +0900

Hardware Products section is updated. Prices for products and shipping have been adjusted. New beta of MultiWin 2 Uploaded.

Now Accepting Zalman HS Orders

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:00:00 +0900

There has been many requests for ordering Zalman's heatsinks. Those who were waiting may now wait no more. I have set up an international order page for you.