*NOTE*
If you came here looking for the ISAPI on Windows 2003 tutorial it has been moved to here due to a database crash.
The first ever stable release of Pidgin is out! For those who didn’t know, Pidgin is the new name of the great IM client Gaim. Everyone that has grown tired of all the extra stuff that comes with regular msn messenger, aol messenger or almost any other IM protocoll this is really worth trying. For more info on the new release you just have to head over to www.Pidgin.IM and have a look!
I’ve been using the Devjavu service for a while now and I think its great. You get a Subversion repository AND Trac hosted for FREE!
Wait now, its free, does that mean that there will be tons of ads and shit? Not this time. You get everything for free, you can use it for open source, commercial, academic and even personal projects! If you don’t want people to access your Trac and/or Subversion you can easily just turn it off in the admin panel! Take that SourceForge!
Anyway, Devjavu is still in beta but you can easily request to be part of the beta (really nice guys over there and it works perfectly well) and enjoy all the great things you get via Subversion and Trac. As said earlier I have to projects hosted there already and I can’t do anything but recommend this awsome service. Check it out!
Lots of interessting stuff happening lately, first Gaim changes names name to Pidgin and then Opera 9.2 was released! Apart from the usual bugfixes they introduce a new feature called SpeedDial which could best be described as favourite bookmarks that are shown when opening up a new blank page. They also introduced a quite neat developer toolbar (still not as nice as the firefox plugin but it’s a start). Both things are great additions to an already awsome browser so you really should check it out!
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2007/04/11/9-2-ready-for-the-world
For those who are not familiar with Gaim it’s a great open source instant messaging client. It supports several protocols suchs as MSN, ICQ/AIM, IRC and a few more.
Being a long time user of Gaim myself I’ve eagerly awaited the new version that was released as a first beta over a year ago and now have gone up to it’s sixth beta. There hasn’t been any official information about the slow development (long ago we had a new version each week and then it slowed down) until a few days ago. Apparently there have been some legal issues with the name “Gaim” since AOL have registered “AIM” as their trademark for their own IM client. After over a year of hassle around the name the developers reached a settlement with AOL that unfortunately require the project to change name (I really liked the name Gaim). The new name was decided by the developers to be Pidgin and they’ve also moved to a new server with their website, abandoning their SourceForge hosting for their website and source control and just keeping the download section there.
For those who want to know more there is a long message on the front page over at http://www.pidgin.im/, you can also download the latest version (Gaim 2.0 beta 6, still no new release with the new name). If you are tired of all the crap in Live Messenger or want a great client for Linux or Mac OSX I really suggest that you check Gaim, sorry, Pidgin out!
I went looking for a simple way to use better permalinks then the standard ?p=123 when on IIS. As I understand it, this would be dead simple if running on an Apache server but in my case that isn’t an option.
There are lots of sites out there that explains how to setup Apache correctly or how to install different ISAPI filters and then remapping them to the old ?p=123 URLs. Finally I stumbled upon another site that actually just talked about the feature to go via index.php and adding an action to that. This wouldn’t require mod_rewrite or editing of the .htaccess file. Sounded great, since IIS doesn’t have any of those two.
So did it work? Of course not, it wasn’t really that easy. So right before dismissing that page as just another Apache solution I noticed a comment made by someone that called himself (or herself) “Cem” about how to do this on IIS. The solution was simple, you put your own php.ini in the root of your website and override two settings. Below is how the php.ini file should look.
[PHP]
cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1
cgi.force_redirect = 0
For those who want to read the original article and comments where I found this can do it here: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-tip-on-permalink-options/
