Category: Programming

  • Strange error message in Poedit

    I’m currently working on a PHP project that needs to offer possibilities of internationalization, i.e. the application should be translatable into any language with minimal effort. Since I had already come to know the mechanics of gettext from WordPress and was highly enthralled by its simpleness and effectivity, I decided to use this system for…

  • Dual monitor Flash player fullscreen hack

    Wow, actually I thought I couldn’t top my five-noun post title “Live Ajax PHP regex tester, but now it happened. Looks a bit weird indeed. But let’s get on topic: If you have two monitors connected to your PC, you will probably have a movie run on one of them sometimes while keeping on working…

  • Date formatting with qTranslate

    Almost a year ago I described here how I had managed to set up two different date formats for German and English in my WordPress theme. That’s why especially users of the plugin “qTranslate” ended up here frequently, because I had found a – rather muddled, but working – solution to show each language in…

  • April showers bring May flowers!

    “Something’s different here… If only I knew what!” Did you feel the same when you entered this site today? If so: Congratulations, you got an extraordinarily good cognitive ability! As you can see, I have finally managed to create my very own WordPress theme after more than a year. The former variants were just modifications…

  • Blemish in WordPress plugin “FireStats”

    Actually I didn’t want to write about this at all, but now I see that some people googled for the very same error message that I recently got from FireStats as well: Wrong parameter count for debug_backtrace() Obviously Google combed through my site just at the time when it was littered with that unlovely error…

  • Object not showing up in Firefox?

    When converting my site to XHTML, the WordPress plugin “WP GuestMap” posed another little obstacle. It is the plugin that I use on the “Visitors” page to display the world map with the hometowns of all visitors. Until now, I had implemented the map via IFrame. Although the plugin does offer a code snippet for…