blog.alejandrocuervo.com

Nice quote, I totally agree with it.

“No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.”

Alan Cooper.

So today as an exercise, I bumped this site’s theme from 0.97 to 0.98. Mostly minor changes to reduce clutter. Added some color to the links to improve usability. Some minor changes to improve multi-language support.

Still far from beautiful and cool…

This will be an ever growing list of Open-Source software to keep and eye on.

When they reach maturity they’llne moved to the Mature Production Ready Open-Source software list:

• Open Atrium, Collaboration, It uses Drupal as its foundation. | http://openatrium.com/
• Concrete5, CMS. | http://www.concrete5.org/
• slowmoVideo | http://slowmovideo.granjow.net/index.html
• coLinux | http://www.colinux.org/
• andLinux | http://www.andlinux.org/

This will be an ever-growing list of mature and production-ready open-source software:

• Linux, Kernel | http://www.kernel.org/
• Debian, OS | http://www.debian.org/
• Apache, web-server | http://httpd.apache.org/
• PostgreSQL, DB | http://www.postgresql.org/
• MySQL, DB | http://www.mysql.com/
• Drupal, CMS | http://drupal.org/
• WordPress, CMS | http://wordpress.org/
• Joomla, CMS | http://www.joomla.org/
• Xen, VM hypervisor | http://xen.org/
• PHP,  Scripting language | http://www.php.net/
• Red Hat, OS, | http://www.redhat.com/
• Cent OS, OS | http://www.centos.org/ (Red Hat minus the branding & artwork)
• MediaWiki, wiki server | http://www.mediawiki.org/

No more kindle reader in linux via wine.

Now there is an HTML5 version at https://read.amazon.com/

Simple and to the point, works great in Google Chrome!

Duplicate Post | By Enrico Battocchi

Google XML Sitemaps | By Arne Brachhold

All in One SEO Pack | By Michael Torbert

WordPress Database Backup | By Austin Matzko

WordPress Backup | By BTE  (Blog Traffic Exchange)

WP Minify | By Thaya Kareeson

WP Super Cache | By Donncha O Caoimh

Delete-Revision | By gohsy

Sociable | By Blogplay

WP to Twitter | By Joseph Dolson

JF3 Maintenance Redirect | By Jack Finch

Iframe | By webvitaly

UPDATED Jul 23/2011

Finally we have a native 64bit Flash 11. It is working very well, I highly recommend it.

Before installing it, make sure that previous versions of Flash and nspluginwrapper are uninstalled.

Download it from:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplatformruntimes/flashplayer11/flashplayer11_b1_install_lin_64_071311.tar.gz
untar, copy and link  libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins by doing the following in the terminal. (make sure you close Firefox first)

tar zxvf flashplayer11_b1_install_lin_64_071311.tar.gz sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/ sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/

Done!

Or, alternatively (you should always read and understand scripts before running them) you can do this installation just by copying and pasting the following in the terminal:

wget https://blog.alejandrocuervo.com/downloads/flash_x64_en.sh && sudo chmod +x flash_x64_en.sh && sudo sh ./flash_x64_en.sh

This script will install Native 64 Bit Flash 11 and will also remove previous versions of flash and “nspluginwrapper”
Note: If you just want to see the code for the script, it is available here:
https://blog.alejandrocuervo.com/downloads/flash_x64_en.sh

EDIT #1: January 01/2009: Updated everything to use latest adobe version 10.0.d21.1
EDIT #2: March 02/2009: Updated everything to use latest adobe version 10.0.22.87
EDIT #3: August 02/2009: Updated everything to use latest adobe version 10.0.32.18
EDIT #4: January 05/2010: Updated everything to use latest adobe version 10.0.42.34
EDIT #5: February 11/2010: Updated everything to use latest adobe version 10.0.45.2
EDIT #6: October 12/2010: Updated everything to use latest adobe version 10.2.161.23 Preview
EDIT #7: July 23/2011: Updated everything to use latest version of Adobe Flash version 11.0.1.60

Before proceeding, make sure Google Talk plugin is installed.

sudo apt-get install lib32v4l-0
sudo mv /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin.real
echo ‘#!/bin/sh’ | sudo tee /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin
echo “LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin.real” | sudo tee -a /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin
sudo chmod +x /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin

Revert:

sudo rm /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin
sudo mv /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin.real /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin