I have been fighting with the bad magic that is SharePoint recently, and one of the (many) problems I was having is that the design called for Headings to show up in the drop down menus, but we just could not get them to show up. It was very difficult to find information on this, mainly because there are so many options and configuration choices for a SharePoint site that few solutions are ever straightforward or even applicable to how you have the site set up. I never found a direct explanation of how to get Headers in the drop down (flyout) menus, but luckily I found the solution by chance on a page explaining something else. Read the rest of this post »

Even though I hate it when plugins release too often, 1.3 had a bug that made error messages appear on the settings screen in some configurations. They were harmless, but I didn’t want them hanging around until the next major release. I also added a new option always_show_decimal that will add a .0 to whole numbers when displaying fractions. It’s false by default, but it can be turned on in the settings page, or set for individual tags.

I released Xavin’s Review Ratings 1.3 today. It’s mostly an update to clean up and self document the admin panel, but it also includes three new image sets. In addition, all the HTML that’s rendered by the plugin is now fully templated.

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September is done, and most of the Fall shows have premiered. It seems to be a pretty average season, although the crop of new shows is fairly unimpressive so far. My ratings are for the episodes this season so far only. I plan to do this every month. I don’t watch every show, but I do watch a majority of the hour long dramas and have for the last few years, so I like to think I have a pretty good grasp on what’s good and what’s not.

These mini-reviews are spoiler free for this season unless otherwise noted. Previous seasons are fair game.

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My second WordPress plugin, Xavin’s Review Ratings, was released today, and it is much more complicated and useful than my plugin for listing pages. It allows you to use a shortcode to easily add ratings to your pages that look like this:

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There are a ton of options and full documentation on the plugin page.

I have been using Vista on my work machine for the last six months, and have generally been happy with it. The only big problem I have had was that the Start Menu search, which is one of Vista’s best new features, would seemingly randomly crash explorer.exe. I finally got tired of this and decided to track down the problem.

It turns out that it was Adobe Version Cue CS3 causing the problem, the Version Cue control panel app to be precise. Any time I would do a search that would return the control panel app for Adobe Version Cue CS3, explorer.exe would crash out. In practice this meant anytime I started to search for something that started with A, C, or V, which is why I thought it was random for so long.

I found a couple of hits on google that talk about the problem, and the solution is to uninstall Version Cue. There are a couple of problems with this, you could want to have Version Cue installed (does anyone actually use it?), but more importantly, the uninstall failed on my machine. I probably could have removed and re-installed the whole CS3 suite, but that’s way too much trouble.

Instead, I tracked down the registry entry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\Cpls called Adobe Version Cue CS3 and deleted it. This removed the broken control panel app and left the rest of the program intact.

Hopefully in the future MS will fix it so that a rogue CPL can’t crash explorer.exe, and Adobe will fix their application so it plays nice with Vista.