Playing with APIs is very funny, especially if you can obtain a lot, coding a few. This time I realized Translate This a simple wordpress plugin using Google Ajax APIs for Languages to translate the post you’re writing, directly from wordpress administration interface.
It was easy to create the plugin but it’s also very simple to use!
In fact it just adds an icon in the toolbar above wordpress text editor. Clicking it will open a popup containing a select for the language you want to translate your text to and a quick preview of what you will obtain. You change the language from the select and the preview updates itself. When you’re satisfied you press save and your text is automatically replaced with the translated one. There are 42 languages in which you can translate your text.
That’s amazing in my opinion…. here is a quick screencast to show what I’m talking about
As I’m still waiting for wordpress to accept my plugin on their directory you can visit the dedicated page on this blog.
Reading Fabrizio‘s blog article I came to know about Koders, an incredible resource of open source code. Using Koders search engine you can easily find the code you were looking for, or get informations about the classes you are already using.
In fact, their database does not only contains the code but also informations about the author, the licence and the source it was cut from.
Apart from the web interface I believe the most interesting part of Koders are the IDE plugins, developed to rapidly access code’s informations directly from a developing platform. In the download page you can find the Eclipse plugin, which searches in real time any documentation, information and code related to what you’re writing on eclipse. As shown in their screencast as soon as you declare a class/function the plugin will start a research on background and will return all the posssible related class. If you find what fits your needing you can just double click to include open source functions and classes inside your project!
Just a quick tip to monitor download status and problems while using Amule. On Gnome, the program notify is used to show notifications on the desktop, for example evolution uses it for new messages alerts.
Amule does not support it natively but on its configuration panel it is possible to specify a custom command to launch on some events. For example, as you can see from below screenshots I set to launch the command
notify-send "Download Completato - %FILE"
when a Download finshes.
You can set other custom events obviously, like errors or chats, also using native amule variables like %FILE, which prints out the name of the file that determinated the event.
Have you ever dreamed about an andvanced IA (I’m ironic) who could understand what browser you opened and open all the links you click on your DE in THAT browser and not in the default one?
Well this is asdGB (Automatically set default Gnome browser), a simple bash script which runs in background, checks for opened browsers and sets the default handler for http / https links on the one you prefer. Obviously if you got only one browser opened it will set that one as default. This means memory and resource saving. This means no more too many windows opened.
asdGB is released under GPL v3 licence and it’s as simple as ./asdGB.sh!
Yes, it’s ture. There are a lot of plugins for WordPress that let your users interact with Social Bookmarking sites, but as soon as I looked at Hey Silver, I started loving its new way of proposing content. Continue reading →
After looking in the whole web (ok, not in the whole web but a major part of it for sure) a Sitemap Generator for Google News (not the search engine) compatible with the CMS i’m currently using, i convinced myself to realize it with my fingers, so that it could be integrated with my Joomla Installation and that it could import url from Open Sef plugin.
Pommo is a simple but powerful Open Source Mailing List managing tool, with a simple and nice interface, and a complete managing system, full of all the aspects that are required for a mass mailing software.
Sidu is an Open Source Mysql client, completely programmed in Php. Even if it can not be compared to PhpMyAdmin, Sidu offers advanced Javascript gestures, tables sorting and a simply interface, easy to use.
Pisa,Italy. 
