Archive for the ‘[lang_de]Software[/lang_de][lang_en]Software[/lang_en]’ Category
Alex Günsche · January 12, 2007
The ServerSite project, which implemented a webserver with lots of additional features on a LiveCD, is discontinued.
The main reason for this is that I don’t have the time to manage the project in an appropriate manner. The intentions of ServerSite were to provide a stable and widely running LiveCD with very recent packages based on Gentoo Linux as well as providing special features such as saving settings and contents on a USB stick – and these intentions can not be satisfied with a too short time budget.
Whoever might be interested in the build scripts or other stuff created during the ServerSite development, is welcome to contact me.
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Zirona-News, Software
Alex Günsche · January 10, 2007
There is an exploit for WordPress available which reveals the admin user and the hashed admin password. WordPress versions lower than 2.0.6 on servers with register_globals=On are vulnerable. (The exploit script suggests that 2.0.6 is also affected, but this couldn’t be reproduced so far.) Everybody is urged to update to 2.0.6 as soon as possible.
Wikipedia provides some background on SQL injection exploits.
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Wissenswertes, Software
Alex Günsche · December 24, 2006
A new version of the Advanced Search is available. Prominent changes are:
- Search can now be limited to a user-defined period,
- Various improvements on the highlighting function; it should work pretty perfect now,
- Compatibility with the Polyglot plugin (thanks to Christian)
- Fixes and some revisioning for compatibility with WordPress 2.1 – yes, we’re ready for the 2.1 release!
The plugin is as always available from its home page. Have fun with the new version and let me know how you like it. Also, please help out with translations, and report bugs as well as improvement ideas!
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Software
Alex Günsche · November 27, 2006
We are happy to announce the release of our next great WordPress plugin. It is called Subrosa and it is a snap-in for various WordPress contact forms to allow Public Key encryption of confidential messages. What this is and what the benefits are, is explained very well in a Wikipedia article.
The plugin is tested with the legacy WP Contact Form by Ryan Duff and with Contact Form ][ by Chip Cuccio. But others should work, too.
You can read more about the plugin on its description page, where you will also find the download.
To see a demonstration of the plugin, visit our contact form.
This plugin is based on the work of a couple of other authors. I want to especially thank Herbert Hanewinkel, who did not only do most of the JavaScript implementations of the cryptographic algorithms, but who also helped me with the development of this plugin. Not to forget that much of the frontend stuff is derived from his insightful online demo.
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Software
Alex Günsche · November 24, 2006
You might wonder how you got from contutto.com to this site.
This is because I have moved all software and documentation as well as nearly all blog posts and comments to zirona.com and now have a redirection to this very site. The reason for this is that I started to use Contutto as a development platform for my WordPress related work, while Contutto is actually only a platform for dynamic PDF applications. Of course, the ContuttoPDF and the Advanced Search plugins would fit there, but there also are other plugins, and I don’t want to host them on two different locations.
Zirona is the base for all Open Source related work projects. This is why I decided to make a cut and from now have all past and future software, downloads, documentation and discussion at this site. I hope you understand this and enjoy being here. If you encounter 404 errors or other quirks or inconveniences, please drop a comment here. I’m thankful for any hint.
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Wissenswertes, Zirona-News, Miscellaneous, Software
Alex Günsche · November 2, 2006
“Headache with Pictures” is a small, but usefull plugin for your dashboard: It offers an area to quickly write down things you’ve got on your mind. This can be things to blog about or your shopping list. (The title is an allusion to Futurama.)
If you blog with multiple persons, you can leave a message for the others. In the plugin file, you can determine, what capabilities a user must have to read the notes, and what capabilities he must have to write/modify them. By default, Authors and higher can write, and every registered user can read.
The idea for this plugin came from tboggi on the German WP forums. To use it, download it, unpack it, put it in your plugin directory, activate it. Then go to your dashboard page and enjoy.
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Miscellaneous, Software
Alex Günsche · October 28, 2006
Today, WordPress 2.0.5. has been released, mainly as bugfix release. The plugins developed by Contutto, ContuttoPDF and AdvancedSearch, work perfectly with the new version, so no need to worry about incompatibility. Let’s see how that will be with WP 2.1. 
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Miscellaneous, Software
Alex Günsche · October 24, 2006
The Advanced Search plugin is featured on today’s WP podcast. 
Thanks to Charles and the WP podcast people for covering us.
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Miscellaneous, Software
Alex Günsche · October 19, 2006
A new version of the Advanced Search is available. The one and only new feature is search term highlighting (multicolor!). I decided to call this version
The “Frankie” release
This is because I was urged and finally convinced by Frankie (and others) from the German WordPress forums that an Advanced Search doesn’t deserve its name without fancy highlighting.
I was opposed to this, and I’m still sceptic; simply because all them Regular Expressions eat quite some CPU bandwidth, which can result in a significant CPU impact at very large sites (or lame servers ).
However, on smaller sites as well as with short results lists and few search terms, it’s sweet eyecandy. That’s why this feature is on by default, while you can easily deactivate it at the beginning of the plugin file. Leaving highlighting on will definitely not break anything, in the worst case a term just won’t be highlighted. This can happen due to the complex technology of the MySQL FULLTEXT search.
Ok, actually there is another change: We now have a Spanish translation of the Search form as well as the hints popup (!), thanks to Trebol-A. And in order to tidy up the plugin’s base directory, I put all translations into the subdirectory l10n.
The plugin is as always available from its home page. Have fun with the new version and let me know how you like it. Also, please help out with translations, and report bugs as well as improvement ideas! 
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Miscellaneous, Software
Alex Günsche · October 13, 2006
First of all, I want to thank all the people who installed and tested the Advanced Search plugin and of course also those who have written about it and who are using it. I had a some hundred downloads in a single week! I hope you all enjoy the Advanced Search.
Now for the news: A new version of the plugin is available. The interface has been improved, and there are some minor bug fixes. Upgrading is easy. However this release is not security-related, so if you’re happy with v0.1, you can keep it.
Changelog for version 0.2
- Only one search field instead of three. This allows a more flexible search with boolean operators. An explanatory “help” popup is offered.
- In the simple searchform and in the sidebar, the correct search term is shown instead of “advanced”.
- Categories are displayed hierarchically now. Subcategories are toggled via JavaScript. The display of categories can be tuned, similar to the WP template tag
list_cats (with fewer options, though). Categories can be excluded, empty categories can be shown or hidden, and sorting can be done by name or ID, ascending or descending.
- If there is only one author or category, the respective section is not shown. (This should have worked with 0.1 already, but it didn’t, due to a bug.)
- When all categories are unselected, it acts like if all are selected. Same with authors.
- XHTML has been improved to validate as XHTML 1.1 and to reflect the semantic structure better. This however makes it a good idea to style the form with CSS. The plugin package therefore contains a CSS sample
ctas.css to be attached to your template’s style.css (you can of course modify it to fit your taste).
- French translation for the Advanced Search form is now included, thanks to Luc Saint-Elie. (Slightly foozled by me, for the new version.) Other translations are highly welcome.
The new version is available from the also revised plugin’s page. If you want to be notified on future releases, you can subcribe to our new notification service.
Have fun with the new version!
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Miscellaneous, Software
