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Viewing Chinese Japanese Korean Webpages when using Windows

Since I have installed the global translator plugin I want to be able to view the chinese entries rendered it would normally meant to be seen. To do this I need to enable the rendering of the character set.  This is my webpage where I note the various things I find.  No working solution yet! 

Viewing Chinese Webpages when using OS= Windows with Windows Explorer

Both of the major browsers can support Chinese without any other programs. All you need is the right font, and there are many good free fonts you can download. The best method is to download Microsoft's language packs and input methods for Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

Microsoft Global Input Method Editors (IMEs)  – This pack is "free" if you have a qualifying microsoft office product. 

Additional information at  Creating Chinese Web Pages

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

WordPress WP-Latex Plugin for rendering Mathematics

I found another math rendering plugin refered to here: http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/kumara/2007/04/10/latex-math-plugin-for-wordpress/

It is based on LaTeX.

Note To Self:  Kumara Sastry  appears to be an interesting an talented person.  He studies in the area of genetic algorithms.  An idea I have is to study talented people and make a blog and the subsequently a company based around these people. 

Easy LaTeX – author interesting blog to punch around also

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

How to write a wordpress plugin

I will be summarizing for myself on this page how to write a WordPress plugin.

My initial search on Google

WordPress PlugIn Skeleton Generator

Fun with Plugins makes some assumptions about file names and paths to resources.

It is assumes that your plugin file is located at: YOURBLOG/wp-content/plugins/wp_emarket/wp_emarket.php

It is assumes that your external Javascript file is located at: YOURBLOG/wp-content/plugins/wp_emarket/js/script.js

A Sample functioning Plugin that appears very simple

 Write your own plugin for Wordpress

A step by step for producing plugins

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

WordPress User Geo Location by IP Address Map Generation

http://blog.vimagic.de/ip-city-cluster-wordpress-plugin/

This plugin requires a statistics plugin to remember all the IP addresses.  The plugin maps the geo locations associated with this.

  1. Need to have a statistics plugin that remembers all the user IP addresses.   During configuration of the plugin you specify the database table and field name.   See screen shot below.
  2. The MaxMinds geo ip data base is here: http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity   You can import either binary or CSV list to your database.  The binary is said to be much faster compared with CSV  which may take up to a few seconds. 
  3. For #2 I need to convert to SQL because my ISP does not allow CSV lists to be imported. ( at one time they did )

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

VB Visual Basic ModBus Checksum Routine

Function CRC16_BIN(ByRef ModBus_Data() As Long, NumBytes As Integer) As Long
  
    Dim Temp As Long
    Dim CRC As Long
    Dim Polynomial As Long
    Dim i As Integer
    Dim j As Integer
'—– following are read sequence checksum verification vectors  — test where either hi or lo byte == 0
'— Example temperature= 1 :   1  3  64  0  1  217  144
'—         temperature=255:   1  3  64  0  255  88  16
'—         temperature=256:   1  3  64  1  0  25  192
'—         temperature=257:   1  3  64  1  1  216  0
'—                     =0 :   1  3  64  0  0  24  80
  '— verified write string = Chr(1) & Chr(6) & Chr(64) & Chr(3) & Chr(232) & Chr(24) & Chr(34)
    CRC = 65535          '–bottom 16 bits are all 1's
    Polynomial = 40961   '–poly = A001
    For i = 0 To NumBytes – 1
      CRC = CRC Xor ModBus_Data(i)
      For j = 0 To 7
        If (CRC And 1) Then
          CRC = (ShiftRight(CRC) Xor 40961)
        Else
          CRC = ShiftRight(CRC)
        End If
      Next j
    Next i
    CRC16_BIN = CRC And 65535
   
    End Function

 

Research Links

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

phpBB php Bulletin Board integration into WordPress

I am researching the integration of phpBB into Wordpress.  I will put the results of my research here as time goes on.

Wp2BB

     Wp2BB Plugin Home Page   – Wp2BB in the Wordpress plugin directory  – The homepage has phpBB set up very well stylistically – It creates a forum topic automatically for every entry in your blog if you want. 

Configuration of the plugin

You have to install your phpBB separately.  Appears that it does not integrate USER / PASSWORD authentication. What that means is to log into the blog you have one user / password pair and yet another pair for the bulletin board software. 

Wp-United

 Wp-United Home Page   this site has alot of examples of its usage in well integrated artful sites. Including this one: GardeningZone.org  

Appears that the USER / PASSWORD integration problem was solved in this case.  I have not tested this but did read on their site that it is integrated.

Forum discussion of its usage

BBPress

BBPress is not phpBB. It is by the WordPress crew. For this reason I suspect it integrates more easily.

bbPress Integration – This plugin gives the default WP role to users who registered through approved bbPress installations. It also populates things like usernicename and displayname as necessary.

Notes on bbpress installation:

I found that in spite of having the most up to date version of WordPress I needed to add the following lines to my wp-config.php file

define('AUTH_KEY', 'KeyValue1');                    
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'KeyValue2');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'KeyValue3');   AUTH_KEY, SECURE_AUTH_KEY, LOGGED_IN_KEY explanation here  HOWTO: Set up secret keys in WordPress 2.6
define('SECRET_KEY', 'KeyValue4');    Secret Key Explanation here

The respective key values are long strings of random characters.

 Markdown for WordPress and bbPress – Markdown syntax allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format.

punBB Latest Topics Widget

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Visual Basic: Returning an array from a function

How to return an array from a function

Parent Form Function that passes back an Array / Vector

 Private Sub ReceiveArray_Click()
    Dim intRcvArray() As Integer
    Dim i As Integer

    UserInterface.Text = ""
    intRcvArray = NumberList()                   ' —Get the array of strings.
   
    For i = LBound(intRcvArray) To UBound(intRcvArray)     ' —Display the strings.
       UserInterface.Text = UserInterface.Text & CStr(i) & " "
    Next i

End Sub

Private Function NumberList() As Integer()          ' — This function returns an array 
  Dim intArray() As Integer
  Dim i As Integer

    ReDim intArray(1 To 10)
    For i = 1 To 10
        intArray(i) = i             
    Next i

    NumberList = intArray
End Function

Code here: ReturnArray.zip

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago