You might wonder why installing a web application takes me so long… The only answer I can give to this question is that it takes just about the necessary time that is required to deploy and support a modern web application like Redmine on an old-fashioned, but secure and predictable, operating system like Enterprise Linux [...]

During the last week two applications I use quite often, Skype and the official Last.fm client, had stopped working. The error message that was displayed the first time any of these programs was launched during the login session indicated that there was a problem with the imsettings-applet. This has been a bit frustrating as I [...]

Just before the outage, and having read fog’s comments about the newly released 2.7 version of WordPress, I upgraded G-Loaded’s engine. Once again I used my WordPress updater script. This script has worked well for a considerable number of upgrades, so, although it is still in alpha stage, I will probably make a public release [...]

After some months of inactivity, a new version of the Add-Meta-Tags plugin for WordPress has been released today. Version 1.5 contains the following additions/changes: The license under which the plugin is released has changed. The Add-Meta-Tags plugin is now released under the terms of an Apache License version 2. This change is directly related to [...]

This is a notice that I have updated the tab-session-management extension for Epiphany, so to make it work in environments that use Python version 2.5. This mainly involves the newest Fedora and Ubuntu distributions – at the time of writing. The plugin makes use of the cElementTree module, which has been moved into Python’s Standard [...]

I proudly present the latest and greatest version 1.0 of the Creative Commons configurator plugin for WordPress. The code was almost re-written from scratch, but now the plugin is feature-rich, more flexible and is 100% ready for localization! Greek users will find the Greek translation at the plugin home page. This is the first time [...]

According to the latest post, at the time of writing, on the WordPress development blog, a cracker gained access to one of the servers that power wordpress.org and modified the WordPress 2.1.1 distribution package. It is said that malicious code that can make the web application vulnerable was planted into the archive.

Version 3.0 of the Creative Commons Licenses has been launched. The license code can be generated at the Creative Commons website. The Creative-Commons-Configurator plugin for WordPress has been updated this morning. All content, which is hosted on G-Loaded!, unless otherwise stated, has been re-licensed and is now available under the terms of a Creative Commons [...]

I am glad to announce that I have released the first stable version (v1.0) of my Add-Meta-Tags plugin for WordPress.

This is a notice that I have released updated versions for the Bot-Allow-Content and CC-Configurator WordPress plugins. Read about the bug fixes in their changelogs. For those who are not familiar with these plugins, here is a small description: Bot-Allow-Content: Makes it possible to set which user-agents will be able to read the full content [...]