Comments on: Computational rage

By: Milan

Milan — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:33:38 +0000

TextMate is really pretty great.

I getting more familiar with the features and finding new ones all the time. I especially like the ‘wrap word as link’ tool and some of the ‘snippets.’

The integration with Fetch is also excellent and highly useful.

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:38:36 +0000

WordPress 2.3.1 is out. I hope you haven't already gone through the trouble of upgrading to 2.3.

By: Milan

Milan — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:12:57 +0000

Not true, Anon, as an intellectual non-scholar I am variable in my nerd tolerance.

You are a positive nerdophile – look at your group of friends.

By: R.K.

R.K. — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:07:17 +0000

Don’t sweat this stuff.

Enjoy Montreal.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:08:51 +0000

Not true, Anon, as an intellectual non-scholar I am variable in my nerd tolerance. Thank you for prefacing an article with such a caveat, it prevented my brain from imploding.

By: .

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:05:49 +0000

Security vulnerabilities in WordPress

By: Milan

Milan — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:29:07 +0000

Apparently, upgrading to Leopard (Mac OS 10.5) will also fix the problem. There is one other good reason to do so: Memory randomization to protect against buffer overflows.

By: Milan

Milan — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:10:18 +0000

The sandbox / whipping boy blog has been upgraded to WordPress 2.3. (No need for extensive backups or testing there.) It doesn’t seem to crash Safari.

TextMate 1.5.6 seems to talk with that installation happily enough.

This means I just need to work through the steps described in the last paragraph of the post above. Perhaps I can do so while on the train tomorrow.

Now, to actually get to sleep.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:47:43 +0000

Only nerds and the nerd-tolerant ~~should proceed past this point~~ read this blog in the first place.

By: Milan

Milan — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:42:15 +0000

XMLRPC related entries on the WordPress.org forums I am now officially going to sleep...

By: Milan

Milan — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:38:00 +0000

Description of the XMLRPC problem:

“There has been a few problems related to correct dates. This comes from the fact that the dateCreated argument (in the XML-RPC protocol) has no time zone info, and until WordPress 2.2 it was interpreted mostly as server time.

Starting with WordPress 2.2 this field is GMT and dates should be offset correctly.

Unfortunately WordPress 2.2.1 introduced a Z in the date format which breaks Ruby 1.8.2’s XML-RPC parser — so if you use WordPress 2.2.1 then you need to update your installed Ruby version. If you have MacPorts installed then you can run sudo port install ruby and update your PATH. See RubyVersionIssues for help with that.

Even more unfortunately, the next version of WordPress will revert its date handling to before 2.2 and so, after that release, dates will again use the wrong offset.”

By: Milan

Milan — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:37:08 +0000

The fix to make TextMate work with WordPress 2.2.X is insane.

First, you need to install the Apple Xcode tools.

Then, you need to install something called MacPorts. Doing so is a lengthy process that involves installing XWindows (X11) and setting up a bunch of things in the shell.

Once you have done that, you use MacPorts to install a new version of something called ruby. I don’t think ruby is the same thing as Ruby on Rails, but I may be confused.

Then, you need to do more shell configuration.

All this because “Unfortunately WordPress 2.2.1 introduced a Z in the date format which breaks Ruby 1.8.2’s XML-RPC parser.”

Unfortunately indeed!