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What’s up with me, why so little updates? University has started four week ago and I am somewhat busy with projects there unfortunately. I finished re-visions of all my past themes, but still the themeviewer is closed to updates (their laziness is really starting to piss me off; not once, not twice, but at least three times I have offered the community’s and my help to speed things up. So many people work on fixing bugs in WordPress; I am sure that at least 10 to 50 highly motivated individuals would volunteer to fix the themeviewer “according to Mr.Wordpress’” needs.

What is still in need to be done from me this the coming month(s)?
- real release Japanese version
- release croatian version
- release polish version
- release spanish version
- update manual (to reflect credits and bug-fixes/faq)

- work on wordpress 2.5 compatibility

- do IN wordpress work (slice and dice)
- do SAMBA! work
- do Zone work

- release calendar style theme (yes, this is going to be the next big thing after magazine styles)
- release highly simplified show-hide collapsible theme that does not look like wordpress
- work on a way to pass dynamic data to flash and forth and back (seo-aspects)

- release my theme (h4x3d.com) to the public?
- come up with a new format
- launch wordpress mu more successful
- launch forums (again…)
- launch photoblog / flickr incorporation
- re-write moo

but first of all some university work:
- individual topic about offshoring in germany (did offshoring paper 50 pages before)
- finance report (LBO)
- finance and accounting exam
- SAP report and certificate
- student company work

- release deviant audio trance mix monthly
- record more vinyls, because of my recent change to Rane Serato Final Scratch
- sell vinyls before work placement London
- sort out a flat in London (may)
- visit company in London (may)

university wise:
- individual topic (late april)
- sap (5th june)
- accounting LBO paper (june)
- exams (june/july)

Possible vacations / work opportunities between July and August, commence Work placement in September till March (Maybe February); Interim assessment in Late February; Semester six March / mid March.

pfew… I better get started some serious scheduling with Google Calendars…

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I finished the pictures for the Japanese Translation of Rainbow Feather today -
unfortunately I cannot put the translation into the plaintext UTF-8 encoded PHP-Files.
Update, if you have the language pack for Eastern Languages installed you can enjoy the whole beauty!

Does anyone know a walk-around for this problem?

Credits for the translation (I do not speak Japanese I must admit) go out to Yujin Takayanagi , thank you mate!

about.jpg
about.png

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Personal note: Post here

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first of all, get rid of the following two things in the header.php:



window.onload = function() {
new SmoothScroll({duration:2000});
}

because if you use lightbox (with prototype it does not play along that well.)
if you want to use lightbox with moo,
you should use slimbox

the file (feather.zip) comes with different headers:
one for slimbox and moo.tools (smallest) default install
one for lightbox (no moo.tools) bigger

also, see the manual.

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New version of Rainbow Feather WordPress theme released – click above to read full story
Demo?
Resources?
Download!

UPDATED: feather_English.zip
feather_French.zip
feather_German.zip
feather_Portuguese.zip
feather_Turkish.zip

In the pipe: Japanese, Serbian (Croatian), Spanish, Romanian

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As mentioned earlier, I worked (and still work) hard on Rainbow Feather; I had many people help me out with the work for Rainbow Feather, especially the translations for the localized version of Rainbow Feather, are beautiful. However embedding all those changes takes quite a while; also creating photoshop files for every language and every item (every button, every heading) is a time-intense process. I have finished the English Version to 100% and am now working my way through the German, Turkish, Portuguese, French and Romanian version. Here is a quick teaser video (Windows Media File) that shows how beautifully the widget-support is built-in, as well as the native Lightbox/Slimbox support, but also the cross-browser compatibility. Rainbow Feather is now looking all the same in every modern browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 6, Safari). Also, I added more php-fanciness to auto-cut long titles, a (currently) four pages manual and even more… please stay tuned and don’t hesitate to bug me/leave a comment.

Overall Preview (21MB WMV) | Show video online (new window)
Cross-browser compatibility (16MB Flash) (new window)

UPDATE: been working all evening and morning, English, German, French versions are done 100%, now working on pt_BR, tr_TR and ro_RO

UPDATE: You can check-out the accompanying manual for Rainbow Feather here

rainbow feather logo

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I realised the reason why I keep receiving so many e-mails where people ask if they can modify or use my themes or other material is because of the Creative Commons License I selected. Some months after I first released multiple themes to the public I realise that my choice of the Creative Commons License was wrong. I went with the CC BY-NC-ND, which basically means you could distribute my files, but were not allowed to change them (remix), not allowed to use them commercially and had to credit me.
Many people have come up with great modifications of my themes and I really appreciate that.

New Creative Commons license for my work (By-nc-sa)

Now only hours away (I post the first media here today and go public Monday) of a major new release of Rainbow Feather with widget support and several languages I decided to change the license accommodating my work to the Creative Commons License BY-NC-SA, which means you are of course allowed to remix, modify, exchange, distribute, host my themes and material. However two parts of the license remain intact: you need to attribute my work, which I believe is fair since I spent numerous (literally) of hours working on my themes. It is good karma and a nice thing to not remove my attribution; then also, except with written permission, you are not allowed to use my work commercially, which means resell my themes, add your link to add ‘because you are some theme hosting site’ or similar. Again, for specifics, please drop me a line. And now get active, get busy, get remixing!

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Today WordPress 2.3.3. was released as an urgent security update to the last version.
I wanted to update my install by making use of my subversion install:
so as usually I’d go on with opening PuTTy and logging into my server.
From sh I’d enter

svn up

This for some reason did not fetch all files and no real update was carried out. Any idea why? I have no guess.
So what I did was:

svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.3.3/

More to type, but luckily this does update everything. Still an annoyance that svn up did not work.

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Take my Bonsai WordPress Theme (mentioned in Smashing Magazine’s Top 100 Themes for Ultra Big Font Type)

my bonsai theme

or the red version

my red growth theme

Apply UPSTARTBLOGGER’s colours on the idea of Bonsai

upstartblogger

and voilá you get STRIPPED (stripped, big letters, good copy)

stripped copy

Far fetched or simply stripped bonsai style and applied upstartblogger styling? – I must say I admire Upstarblogger’s themes, so in case this was co-incidental (which I believe), this is still funny!

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It does what it says – it optimizes your sql-database (really hard!).
From time to time it makes sense to log into phpMyAdmin, click the desired database, select all tables and select “optimize” from the drop-down.

My WordPress Database went down 4MB (from 20MB to 16MB), here are some figures after the optimization:

16 tables total
47.081 entries
MyISAM type
language: utf8_general_ci
size: 16,8 MB
overhead: 0 Bytes (was insanely high before the optimization)

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