I.D.E.A.

I was just digging around my theme editor trying to insert a piece of HTML from my hosting service that says that my site is Green, because the hosting service Carbon Neutral. I decided to add the HTML to the footer of my theme. When I looked at the file there were tons of links embedded in a div that had a style of ‘display:none’ !!! I looked at the header and same thing, there were tons of hidden links. I of course deleted the divs from each file and all is well now.

It turns out that people’s WordPress themes are getting hacked for some reason. Here’s an article about it.

I’m really enjoying using TextMate for my coding and will now try with my infrequent blog posting.
Go here to get the TextMate Blogging Bundle.

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I’ve been aware of MTASC for awhile now but haven’t tried it until today.
It all started out with a search for an Eclipse plug-in for Actionscript. I chanced upon this page which contains a great tutorial for acquiring and testing out all the tools you’ll need to start compiling .swf’s.
These are the pieces you’ll need:

• Eclipse – open source IDE
• ASDT – eclipse plug-in for Actionscript development
• MTASC – open source Actionscript compiler
• Flashout – eclipse plug-in that gives you a function similar to “Test Movie” in Flash

MTASC comes with all the classes for MX and 8 (the site mentions its successor, haXE, which will support Flash Players 6-7-8 and 8.5 as well as Javascript and Server-Side scripting.)

I had a little bit of trouble working with Flashout on my Mac running OS X Tiger. When I was trying to configure Flashout in the Eclipse preferences I kept getting an error message saying that it couldn’t find the FlashoutMTASCPreferences class. It turns out that Flashout requires Java 1.5 which doesn’t come with Tiger. This page gives you the fix. Essentially you have to download Java 1.5 from Apple’s site and then you need to point the CurrentJDK folder to the 1.5 folder.

This is my first post to the blog after moving everything over to Dreamhost. I followed the procedures here. But essentially, I just:

• tar’ed my wordpress directory from my old server and exported the wordpress MySQL tables to the file wp1.sql using phpMyAdmin
• ftp’ed the files to the new server
• created a database on the new server, created a new user, and from the MySQL command line, executed the wp1.sql file
• updated the wp-config.php file to use the new DB_HOST, and DB_PASSWORD
• copied over the image directory to which certain blog entries link

And voila!

So far, I’ve found their adminstration tools and their setup a bit confusing. For example, when you setup an email address they create an account that looks something like m132435 and you have to use that to configure your mail client. Howeve, besides having this weird kind of setup, the features that their basic account provides is unmatched…from what I’ve researched so far. They give you 40Mb more storate space every week, for example! You can host an unlimited number of domains with them, which means I have the ability to act like a mini ISP and develope websites for other people.