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Before you imagining any physical disease that affect your body, I am actually talking about a mental-disease disease that will make your blog posting frequency reduced, then reduced more, and finally became non-existent. Of course you can argue that breaking both of your arms will make blogging out of the equation. But in case you did broke both your arms, I just hope for your quick recovery. If I may suggest, your experience during your recovery should become a valuable experience that can be shared with your future blog readers.

The disease that I want to talk is the disease of fear. Fearing that everybody already know what you are going to write. Occasionally, I did experience the same thing. This fear did prevent me writing what I have in mind.

There was a time when I was in the mood of writing about something. Then I researched about the subject through Google. The sheer amounts of article written about the subject immediately discouraged me. “Why should I waste my time. There are so many similar articles in the Net. I fear that my article will become one of those junks found in the Internet”.

Until eZineArticles send me this article. It really helped me to battle the fear and start writing.

Now every time I have this kind of fear, I just tell to myself that as long as I put my best effort, well researched it, and being personal, whatever I write will have a unique touch.

So if you occasionally infected by this disease, read the the article above. Hopefully it will help you like it helped me.

Hardono Arifanto :: Jul.16.2007 :: Blogging :: No Comments »

Hi all. I have managed to patch the WP-Translate and tested it on Wordpress 2.2.

Current Version: 2.2

Overview

WP-Translate is a simple drop in way for users to view your blog in their language. Its easy for any most users to add this functionality to their site.

WP-Translate utilizes the following Online translation services:

1. Alta Vista’s Babel Fish (for translation from English to : French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Greek, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Simplified/Traditional Chinese)
2. IBM’s Websphere Translation (for translation from English to: Brazilian Portuguese)
3. Interpret (for translation from English to: Bahasa Indonesia, Swedish, Norwegian, Afrikaans)

WP-Translate 2.2 Release Notes

Added the following language for translation:

1. Swedish
2. Norwegian
3. Bahasa Indonesia
4. Afrikaans
5. Chinese Traditional
6. Brazilian Portuguese

Requirements

WP-Translate works with Wordpress 1.5 up to Wordpress 2.2 (Tested on Wordpress 2.2)

Your web server should able to execute PHP.

Installation instructions

1. Upload the wp-translate directory to your plugins folder, usually wp-content/plugins/
2. Activate the plugin on the plugin screen.
3. Add <?php wptranslate(n); ?> to your template where you want the list. n can be either 1 or 2. 1 is for a vertical display. 2 makes it horizontal.

Special Installation instructions for non-Wordpress users

As I mentioned before, as long as your Web server supports PHP you should be able to use this plugin. Please follow this steps:

1. Extract the zip file
2. Edit wp-translate.php which is located in wp-translate directory
3. At line 103, replace $img_loc = get_settings(’siteurl’) . ‘/wp-content/plugins/wp-translate’; with $img_loc = ‘/wp-translate’;
4. Save the file
5. Upload the wp-translate directory to your root folder.
6. In the page you want the flags to be displayed, put <?php include_once(realpath($_SERVER[’DOCUMENT_ROOT’]).’/wp-translate/wp-translate.php’); ?> in the first line of the file.
7. Add <?php wptranslate(n); ?> anywhere you want the flags to be displayed. n can be either 1 or 2. 1 is for a vertical display. 2 makes it horizontal.

Download Sodeve’s WP-Translate 2.2

The previous version can be found here:Sodeve’s WP-Translate 2.1

If you like this plugin, please link-back to this post, or add me to your blog-roll. Would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Having problem with installing the plugin? You have ideas for the plugin? Post a comment and I will try my best to help you.

Update: 5 June 2007

Users of this plugin:

1. Myself (^_^)v
2. Founders Cafe
3. Your Blog?

Hardono Arifanto :: Jun.05.2007 :: Blogging, Programming, Tricks :: 14 Comments »

I was tagged by Pieter Marbun yesterday.

The Rules:

* Players start with 8 random facts about themselves.
* Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts.
* Players should tag eight other people and notify them that they have been tagged.

Eight random facts about me:

1. Born in a village called Mojowarno. Mojowarno is a combination of two words, Mojo = is a kind of unedible fruit. Warno=Colour. The naming might be related to Mojopahit, a historical kingdom which was located relatively near to my village.
2. Frequently mistaken as Filipino (^_^) In reality, I am a pure breed Indonesian Javanese (Well I can’t really say I’m pure breed since I never test my DNSA. Although I know exactly my lineage up to my great grandparents. All of them are Java programmer nese. (^_^)/ )
3. Loves spicy foods
4. Wanted to become a pirate. But turned off by Pirates of Malacca Straits. These pirates are neither cool nor savvy. They are just purely violent criminals.
5. Lamb Chop with Black pepper sauce is probably the most frequent food I ordered in any food court
6. The eldest of 4 brothers. That movie very unlikely to be inspired by me and my brothers
7. Believes in afterlife. Although I am in constant fight between good and evil (T_T)
8. Procrastinates frequently =P

I shall continue to pass the tags to:

1. Made Adi
2. Gede Artha
3. Adhi Wibowo
4. Haqi
5. Brett Mckay
6. Culture Shiok!
7. Lisa
8. Karen

Keep it going …..

Hardono Arifanto :: Jun.03.2007 :: Life, Blogging :: No Comments »

A few days back, Dorota asked me to share the trick of those flags under this blog title. So here you are the Wordpress plugin.

This plugin initially developed by Scott Hough. The original translation service used was Google Translate. But I was disappointed by the frequent errors thrown by Google Translate. Another bug was, you cannot translate more than once. To translate into other language, you need to go back to the original page and click different flag.

Requirements:

1. Your blog must be written in English. This is because only this language can be translated into many languages by Babel Fish.
2. You are using Wordpress 1.5 and above. It’s tested in Wordpress 2.1 (this blog (^_^)v )
3. You have access to install the plugin

Installation and Usage Guide:

1. Extract the zip file, upload the wp-translate directory to your plugins folder, usually wp-content/plugins/
2. Activate the plugin on the plugin screen.
3. Add <?php translate(n); ?> to your template where you want the flags to be displayed. n can be either 1 or 2. 1 is for a vertical display. 2 makes it horizontal.

For non Wordpress user, you can still use this plugin provided your Web Server supports PHP. To do so, please follow this steps:

1. Extract the zip file
2. Edit wp-translate.php which is located in wp-translate directory
3. At line 103, replace $img_loc = get_settings(’siteurl’) . ‘/wp-content/plugins/wp-translate’; with $img_loc = ‘/wp-translate’;
4. Save the file
5. Upload the wp-translate directory to your root folder.
6. In the page you want the flags to be displayed, put <?php include_once(realpath($_SERVER[’DOCUMENT_ROOT’]).’/wp-translate/wp-translate.php’); ?> in the first line of the file.
7. Add <?php wptranslate(n); ?> anywhere you want the flags to be displayed. n can be either 1 or 2. 1 is for a vertical display. 2 makes it horizontal.

If you like this plugin, please link-back to this post, or add me to your blog-roll. Would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Having problem with installing the plugin? You have ideas for the plugin? Post a comment and I will try my best to help you.

Download:
Sodeve’s WP-Translate 2.1

Update: 19 May 2007

Users of this plugin:

1. Myself (^_^)v
2. Founders Cafe
3. Your Blog?

Hardono Arifanto :: May.17.2007 :: Blogging, Programming :: 17 Comments »

A girl wrote on her blog about a deceased schoolmate. She said that the death was well deserved. When she realised the insensitivity of her blog post, she decided to attend the wake to apologize to the family of the deceased, but angry teenage mutant ninja mobs attacked her outside the deceased house. Here are the Newspaper scanlations. And this is her blog.

Lesson to be learned:

1. Blogger, in a way is similar to journalist . Although bloggers are not regulated by the journalism code of conduct, but a common sense might need to be used. Unless you are living in United States, where your freedom of speech is protected by the 2nd Amendment. But a defamation/libel lawsuit is still possible to be made against you.
2. Blog entries are accessible to public. Whatever said in public might be used as evidence in the court of law. So please help yourself by not having any blog postings with any potential liability
3. I really need to control my mouth (T_T) and re-checking my previous entries for any potential liability. Any comments?

Hardono Arifanto :: May.02.2007 :: News, Blogging :: 13 Comments »