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Windows Live Writer eszközök

Kurbli — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:02:20 GMT

A haacked blogban olvastam Joe Cheng Dynamic Template pluginjáról.
Ez az eszköz tetszőleges C# és HTML mini-snippet-ek készítését teszi lehetővé, miáltal a weblog tetszetősebb és főleg érthetőbb lehet.

Joe ezt egy csomó példával illusztrálja:

Valamennyi swf példa a

Jing Project

alkalmazásával készült. Van Mac és Windows verzió is a Jing-ből.

További részletek a hivatkozásokban.

Nagy magyar abszurd 2.

Kurbli — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:56:00 GMT

http://msmvps.com/blogs/kurbli/archive/2007/01/31/nagy-magyar-abszurd.aspx

blogbejegyzésem a fenti címen így néz ki:

Omea Reader-ben meg így:

Itt valami oltári keveredés van. Hogy mi az oka, nem tudom. Mindenesetre a hivatkozott URL-en lévő az igazi. Ezen az URL-en pedig ilyen szöveg nincs is.

TinyUrler : Useful tool of the day

Kurbli — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:25:00 GMT

Fear the Cowboy blogból:

Today, I present a tiny little app that I built to help out pasting URLs in various contexts.
TinyUrler watches the clipboard for things that look like URLs, sends them off to TinyUrl to get shrunk down, and puts it back in the clipboard.
Pretty simple, no extra features, just a quick and dirty URL fixer.

Source: TinyUrler : Useful tool of the day

Update (2000.01.30): Jól működik, de egyes programok nem tudnak mit kezdeni a tömörített URL-ekkel (pl.: Omea). Alkalmasabb lenne, ha a jobb egér gombra lenne egy olyan menüpont, hogy "Insert uncompressed URL".

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - FavIcon.ico can be a bandwidth hog

Kurbli — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:46:54 GMT

Hogy egy ilyen apró "csicsa" elvigye a letöltések 11%-át, hihetetlen. Mi lehet a helyzet a nagyobb "csicsákkal"?

Turns out my icon was 70k, as I made it a wonderful high-quality "Vista" icon in an attempt to make things pleasant and everything for folks. Of course, I didn't noticed when it was taking up over 11% of my monthly bandwidth.

Source: Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - FavIcon.ico can be a bandwidth hog

Blog This for Firefox Extension

Kurbli — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 19:51:00 GMT

The Windows Live Writer Blog This extension for Firefox has been updated to support Firefox 2.0.

Updated for copyright reasons (Ajay).

Omea Reader speedup tips

Kurbli — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:42:00 GMT

Add the following lines in the OmeaReader.exe.config file inside <configuration> root tag:

<startup>
<requiredRuntime version="v2.0.50727" />
</startup>

--
Best regards,
Vyacheslav Lukianov
Software Developer
JetBrains, Inc.
http://www.jetbrains.com
"Develop with pleasure!"

> How do you run it under 2.0?
>
>> Hi Will,
>>
>> Two suggestions. First, run Omea under .NET 2.0 if you don't. Second,
>> set on the option "Perform text indexing only in idle mode".
>>
>>> I've been using 2.1.6 for about 3 months. I have about 50-75 RSS
>>> feeds and 20 newsgroups. I get about 100 new rss postings a day.
>>> Every morning I launch Omea, the entire machine hangs while the
>>> reader
>>> is indexing. It takes about 5-10 minutes to index 200 or so
>>> documents. Having a machine that hangs for 5-10 minutes is
>>> unacceptable. I can't find a way to throttle the indexing process.
>>> I'm running a dell d820 laptop with 2 GB of RAM and a 2.16 Ghz dual
>>> core processor. My hard drive is defragged weekly (offline boot
>>> defrag) using PerfectDisk 7.0. I noticed the OMEA database is
>>> severely fragemented.

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Insert Formatted Clipboard plugin for Window Live Writer

Kurbli — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:50:00 GMT

Újabb hasznos dolog. Egyébiránt a "WLW has a hard limit of 32k of HTML code" megjegyzés számomra új, úgy tűnik elkerülte figyyelmemet.

Download: Insert Formatted Clipboard for WLW Setup
Description
WLW doesn't support pasting rich content from the clipboard. Try copying something from IE or an Office product (Word, Excel, etc) and paste it into WLW, just plain text is all you get. With this plugin, you can paste clipboard contents and keep most of that nice formatting.
How it Works
This plugin uses the IE DHTML Editing Control behind the scenes to parse the clipboard contents into a valid block of HTML. MS Word is known for it's messy HTML, but this does a fine job of cleaning it up. It uses the technique I discussed in Copy Paste HTML From MS Word: IE's DHTML Editing Control (in a .NET WinApp). This is wrapped into a plugin using the WLW SDK.
Using the Plugin
You can use this with any app that puts HTML onto the clipboard. This includes IE, FireFox, Word, Excel, etc. By using this control, I can get nicely formatted C# code into my posts (see Tip: Beautifully Formatted .NET C# Code in Blog Post). There is another Insert Code plugin for WLW, but I don't care for it. WLW has a hard limit of 32k of HTML code, which you can rapidly hit by inserting too much formatted HTML, so be aware of this.
When using this plugin, it doesn't include images or get a perfect rendition of the clipboard contents, but it does a pretty good job. Try it out on this HelloWorld.doc file. WLW doesn't always render just right in HTML view. You'll get the most accurate rendering when the post is published and you view it in the browser. Pressing F11 in WLW will rerender the HTML view and sometimes helps.
Windows Live Writer Gallery
My submission to the WLW Gallery is currently pending. I'll update this post with the link to the tool there when it has been approved.

Source: Insert Formatted Clipboard plugin for Window Live Writer

Animated GIF Plugin for Cropper + some .NET Animated GIF code

Kurbli — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:40:54 GMT

Jon Galloway ismét egy érdekes, kíválóan megoldott dologra hívta fel figyelmem.
E cikkben és hivatkozásaiban írt eszközök, azok plugin-jai szükségtelenné teszik a klf. dokumentumokban külső, nagy erőforrás igényű alkalmazások (WMP, WinAmp, Flash, stb.) használatát. Egy automatizált és optimizált eljárás sorozatban elkészíthető a mondandónk alátámasztását segítő képi illusztráció.

Igen jó munka, Brian Scott , Jon Galloway, Patrick Altman és a többiek. Lám, mit eredményez a nyílt forrás MS platformon!

WHAT'S ALL THIS, THEN?

Cropper is a great free screen capture program. It has a cool plugin system which lets you send the screenshots anywhere you can write code to send it. I wrote a plugin to save a portion of the screen to an Animated GIF.
I originally wrote it for use in a weblog post, but got so caught up in the ins and outs of image processing that I never posted the article that got this all started or the plugin I'd written. I just realized last week when I was using the plugin that I still needed to publish it, so here it is.
BUT, WHY?

There are some inexpensive screen recorders that save to animated GIF, but I really like working with Cropper and figured an Animated GIF plugin just made sense. I was just talking with a friend who recently started a technical blog (a very good one, I might add), and we both agreed that the way Cropper simplifies the "screenshot / open in editor / crop / convert format / upload" cycle is huge. Screenshots really enhance the readability of a blog¹, and keeping the friction as low as possible helps make sure you'll do it. I like the simplicity of using one tool for all my screenshots.
CREDITS AND TECH STUFF

I made use of some code from a CodeProject article, NGif. This code was a direct Java to .NET port of Kevin Weiner's AnimatedGifEncoder, which in turn was based on a bunch of public domain code dating back as far as 1994. The GIF Quantization uses NeuQuant, an interesting Neural Network quantizer. NeuQuant is a little slower than the Octree quantization that's so hot these days, but NeuQuant generally produces better quality images for the same file size. Don't your animated GIF images deserve the neural network treatment?

My plugin code is published under public domain license. Based on my research on the origin of the code above, I believe all the NGif code is public domain as well. I did some significant refactoring to the NGif code; the CodeProject version was a direct port from Java and didn't leverage .NET Framework classes like System.Drawing. Bottom line - after a good amount of research, I believe that all this code is under public domain license.
I wrote about all this license silliness previously.
I'm pretty happy with the way the plugin turned out. My first pass at it was pretty simple - take a picture every tenth of a second and add it to the animated GIF. I added an optimization which cut the file size way down, but took a bit more work - I compare each picture with the previous image and only added to the GIF if the image has changed. Since the Animated GIF format requires you to include the time duration of each image as it is added, I end up having to keep the image until the next one is added or capturing is stopped so I can calculate the duration that goes with the image.
I referenced this CodeProject article for comparing two images by using an MD5 hash, although my code just grabs a string hash and stores it rather than comparing two images directly.
Here's the main brains of the code:
        private void HandleImage(Image image)
        {
            string currentHash = GetHashFromImage(image);
            DateTime timeStamp = DateTime.Now;

            //Check if image has changed from previous
            if(currentHash != _previousHash)
            {
                if(_previousTimestamp != DateTime.MinValue)
                {
                    //This is not the first image being added
                    AddImageToAnimation(timeStamp);
                }
                StoreImage(image, currentHash, timeStamp);
            }
        }

        private void StoreImage(Image image, string imageHash, DateTime timeStamp)
        {
            _previousImage = (Image)image.Clone();
            _previousHash = imageHash;
            _previousTimestamp = timeStamp;
        }

        private void AddImageToAnimation(DateTime timeStamp)
        {
            TimeSpan timeSpan = timeStamp.Subtract(_previousTimestamp);
            _AnimatedGifEncoder.SetDelay(timeSpan.Milliseconds);
            this._AnimatedGifEncoder.AddFrame(_previousImage);
            _previousImage = null;
        }
DOWNLOAD

You can download the code and source for this plugin from tools.veloc-it.com.
INSTALLATION

To install, copy all files to your Croppper\Plugins directory.
OTHER RANDOM TIPS

You can edit your animated GIF's with Microsoft GIF Animator.
You can host animated GIF's on Flickr, but only the original size will show the animation. You can find that by clicking on the All Sizes button when you're viewing the picture, then pick the largest size (which should be the default).
I highly recommend the Flickr Output Plugin for Cropper.
You can combine TimeSnapper's history browser and Cropper Animated GIF captures for some fun results.

¹I'll readily agree that the animated GIF overload on this one particular post makes it much tougher to read. Please use your powers for good. I think this is a special case - I can't really blog about animated GIF's without including a few, can I?
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Source: Animated GIF Plugin for Cropper + some .NET Animated GIF code

Get Blog This Plugin Working With Firefox 2.0 by JohnnyCoder

Kurbli — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:50:00 GMT

No, egyre jobban alakul, már a Windows Live Writer és a Firefox 2.0 is együtt tud működni némi hekkelés árán.

The Windows Live Writer Blog This extension for Firefox isn’t currently compatible with Firefox 2.0. However, it is possible to get the two to work together if you are willing to manually edit Firefox’s version checking feature.

Source: Get Blog This Plugin Working With Firefox 2.0 by JohnnyCoder

Community Server Gallery plugin for Windows Live Writer v2.2

Kurbli — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 06:58:00 GMT

Cool, thanks ernow & TheMit for the announcement!

Ca y est le plugin pour Community Server pour blogger directement avec les images de vos blogs a été mis à jour. L'ancien plugin était sympathique mais ne donnait pas de grande liberté sur les images. Pire, il ajoutait un border=1 sur chaque image so...

Source: Community Server Gallery plugin for Windows Live Writer v2.2

Finally a Live Writer extension for Omea Reader

Kurbli — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:26:14 GMT

No itt a teljes kert:

A while back I searched the web for a plugin for Omea Reader to be able to post to Windows Live Writer. I stumbled upon Laurent Kempé's post about his plan to create one and left it at that. Today I happened to stumble upon this plugin implementing the IBlogExtension but intended for Rss Bandit. It just so happens that it always works with Omea Reader.
Simply download the extension, extract it to the Omea Reader program directory, open Omea Reader and install the extension under the Options menu under the Feeds category.
Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

Source: Finally a Live Writer extension for Omea Reader

Már csak egy hiányom van, a Chiwis CS Gallery Manager beüzemelése. Lehet, hogy én vagyok a lüke, de nem akar működni.

Windows Live Writer wish list

Kurbli — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 08:34:09 GMT

Blog This plugin for Omea Reader (come on Laurent Kempé !)
insert file form CS (attention https://sourceforge.net/projects/csgallerytool !)
insert pictures ftom CS (attention https://sourceforge.net/projects/csgallerytool !)
modify CS categories from WLW

Insert File (via FTP)

Kurbli — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:25:40 GMT

http://www.kenandsarah.co.uk/weblog/2006/09/21/Win...

Nagyon jó Windows Live Writer plugin, több ftp server állítható be. Error control nincs.

A weblog eléggé slampos.

Letöltés: bin és source

Cascading Style Sheet Compatibility in Internet Explorer 7

Kurbli — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:54:00 GMT

Úgy három éjszakámba került, mire egy rohadék megjelenítési hibára rájöttem. Hiába kerestem ezt a tartalmat mindenhol (ráadásul beta tesztelője is lennék e több szempontból jó - de legalábbis fényévvel jobb - terméknek, mint az IE6):

Now that IE 7 is close to be released to the wilderness of our world, it's time to consider CSS compatibilities.
Well bad news folks! I think we will have to consider another series of bloated CSS to overcome the differences between IE 7 and before IE 6.
I rely a lot on the * html trick in some recent projects and it seems that now in IE 7 this won't work anymore. Hold on my clients will still use IE 6 for a long time. It means I will have to create more tests, welcome to the crazy world of web developers ;-)
Check this document (preliminary one anyway) by Microsoft on the issues you should expect with CSS. Some call this good news because IE is finally (not completlely) compliant with CSS 2 but I call that overwork time like if I have nothing else to do.

Csak az vigasztal, hogy a közlő blogja is ugyanazt a fos "paperclip" stílust használja - rosszul - mint amivel én kínlódtam. Jobb híján, hiszen a CS 2.1 verziójához ez az egy teljes(? ezt még nem tudom biztosan) skin van az MSMVPS.COM-on.

PS:És akkor a "művészi" header .psd állományának természetesen lopott (világosszürke) szoftverrel történő átírásának igényéről ne is beszéljünk.

Windows Live Toolbar Installation Success!

Kurbli — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:44:27 GMT

Fura, a Windows Live Messenger 8.1 Beta-val installálható Toolbar működik IE 7.0.5700.6-on.

A Windows Live Writer OnScreen pluginja viszont még mindig nem tudja regisztrálni az msfeeds.dll-t, az ieframe.dll-t viszont igen (regsvr32 /i /n ieframe.dll), pedig ez egy IE7!

Link to Windows Live Toolbar Installation Success!

Currently listening to: HardRadio - The Heavy Metal Supersite

CP: Разработка защищенного кода X++

Kurbli — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:10:23 GMT

Недавно удалось прочитать очень любопытный документ "Writing Secure X++ code". Рекомендую всем, кто будет иметь дело с разработкой для Microsoft Dynamics Ax 4.0 (особенно возиться с Interop). Найти описание и сам документ можно в блоге Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan - http://blogs.msdn.com/mfp/

Bocs az orosz szövegért. Idézhettem volna az eredeti angolt is, de egyben tesztelem a Windows Live Writer és a Community Server 2.1 közötti kódkommunikációt.

Post-comment by voice

Kurbli — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:39:02 GMT

Kipróbáltam egy blogban látott eszközt, íme.

Felhívom a figyelmet a "powered by Popsi'IT" feliratra. Hát az legyek, ha ezt használni akarom. Nem akarom egyetlen erőforrásomat sem a Macromedia/Adobe, sem senki számára ideiglenesen sem megnyitni. Popsi IT legyek, ha megteszem!:-D

Zene bolondok kedvéért:
Currently listening to: YRockonXPN

Microsoft Codename Max

Kurbli — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 11:57:03 GMT

Tapasztalatok fenti dologról:

Az ajánlott konfigurációból ezek hiányoznak:

2.4 GHz processor
Tier 2 Windows Presentation Foundation capable 3D Video Card

Elsőre igen tetszetős.
A photo sharing úgy működik, hogy én megosztom a képet email cím alapján, aki kíváncsi rá, az én gépemről tölti le a képet, egyebet. Ez ez nekem a 1500/128 kb/s hálózatomon elég halvány megoldás. Gyors hálózatokon megfelelhet.
1 GHz-s processor-ommal és az NVidia video kártyámmal elég lassú
A feed reader-e érdekes vizuális megoldást ad a post-ok megjelenítésére.
Saját feed-em hozzáadása addig tart, míg valamennyi post-ot nem vizualizálja a saját megjelenítése szempontjából, ezért dög lassú.Ez lett az eredmény:
Érdekes, hogy ahol képet talál, ott azonnal megjeleníti a szövegkörnyezettől függetlenül. Nem a kép a lényeg a blogban vagányok, hanem a tartalom!
Nem látom nyomát sem, hogy modulárisan kezelhető lenne-e. Például IE7 feed reader-ét helyettesíthetné, nem illeszthető a Windows Live Writer-hez, hogy csak az MS dolgait említsem. A leírásokban sem láttam erre utalást.

Összességében a Szépség (Max) és a Szörnyeteg (Omea Reader, Windows Live Writer + plugin-jai (pl. Flickr, LiveWriterOnScreen)) harcában szerintem a Szörnyeteg győzött, úgyhogy uninstall Microsoft Codename Max.

I'm rocking out to Different World by Iron Maiden from the album A Matter Of Life And Death

CP: Microsoft Launches Desktop Feed Reader

Kurbli — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:41:55 GMT

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techcrunch

Microsoft has added a desktop feed reader to its Max photo viewing and sharing software.

To use Max you must be on a Windows machine running the new Windows .NET Framework 3.0 RC1 (it will self install if you are on a previous version). Additional requirements are here.

Kipróbálom mindkettőt (feed reader, photo viewing and sharing).

Mai linkek 2006.09.07.

Kurbli — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:42:41 GMT

pl. én
Paul Baldwin: Load Balancing Web-Proxy Clients With ISA Server 2004 Standard Edition (Part 1)
http://www.ISAserver.org/tutorials/Load-Balancing-...
In this article we will edit the configuration script supplied by ISA Server 2004 Standard Edition and deployed it to our browser clients.

Nem tudtam erről a módszerről, részletesebben át kell tanulmányoznom a konfigurációs file-ok átírását, hiszen kipróbálni, tesztkörnyezetet csinálni nem tudok. A kuncsaftok meg megvernek - mielőtt lelőnének - ha éles rendszeren próbálom. Várom a dolgozat folytatását.
Offsite Storage: Box.net to Windows Live Writer
http://wlwplugins.com/offsite-storage-boxnet-to-windows-live-writer.php
Box.net to Live Writer is an amazingly smart as well as an amazingly well thought out plugin for Windows Live Writer. Box.net to Live Writer inserts files stored on Box.net into your Windows Live Writer post. The plugin comes with its own installer/uninstaller. Once the plugin is installed, configuration is simple. You provide your Box.net login information. If [...]

Ragyogó WLW kiegészítés. Egy alkalmazással lehet kezelni a shared tartalmat és a blogot.