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HemingwayEx v1.8 released

I played around a bit with WP 3.0 Menus and was able to incorporate it into HemingwayEx. Also, with this theme, users can decide to have a single column homepage instead of have the two columns. Setting up WP Menus was quite straightforward actually, based on information in Nicholas’s article. Then there was some work… Continue reading HemingwayEx v1.8 released

Logging tests to separate files

We have been using TestNG to run our tests for a while now. When we initially started, our code was written using Log4J and we were able to configure it to log all the tests to a single file. This made the logs very unwieldy and looking for issues very difficult. Looking at 100+ MB… Continue reading Logging tests to separate files

HemingwayEx v1.7 released

I finally found some time yesterday to fix a bug and made HemingwayEx compatible with WP3.0. It’s been a long time since the last official release. A lot of work has gone into this theme between the last few revisions and most of it was done by db0. He spent a great amount of time… Continue reading HemingwayEx v1.7 released

Connect to MS SQL Server using JDBC

The following example shows a java class that can be used to verify if you connection to MS SQL Server using JDBC is working properly. The following code establishes a connection to MS SQL server and then executes a query to print system tables. You need to get Microsoft’s JDBC drivers or jTDS JDBC drivers.… Continue reading Connect to MS SQL Server using JDBC

Removing tags from WordPress posts content

I have been using WordPress since version 1.x and back then there was no native support for tags in WordPress. Easiest thing to add tags to post was to use UTW or other plugins and because of my new found love for tags then, I started using WP-Tagerati and then moved on to Ultimate Tag… Continue reading Removing tags from WordPress posts content

Static IP address on Ubuntu 8.10

Last Friday I upgraded my install from Ubuntu 7.04 to 8.10 Intrepid Ibex on my office workstation and I noticed that I was unable to assign static IP to the machine. After reboot the netmask was getting messed up and reset to 22. Look at this bug for more info. So, I ditched the native… Continue reading Static IP address on Ubuntu 8.10

HemingwayEx 1.5 Final

I finally got myself to fix some more bugs and add a couple of new things into the HemingwayEx WordPress theme. I received a few suggestions on features that could be added and after thinking about it a bit, I add some more things to this theme. This will (99.99%) be the last update of… Continue reading HemingwayEx 1.5 Final

Hemingwayex 1.1 is finally here

I have finally found time now and then in the past three weeks and tweaked HemingwayEx to work with WordPress 2.3+ and WordPress 2.5. I have fixed a lot of small issues here and there with CSS and the PHP code. I also added few more options to make the theme even more customizable. One… Continue reading Hemingwayex 1.1 is finally here

HemingwayEx 1.1 on it’s way

Tonight, I finally found it in me to fire up my XAMPP installation and make modifications to HemingwayEx. Things have again changed quite a bit in WordPress 2.3, especially with the way categories are handled now and the added support for Tags, and this means a lot of changes in the theme as well. The… Continue reading HemingwayEx 1.1 on it’s way