Version 0.1 of Recapture and WordPress 2.5 do not mix. I apologize for taking so long to announce this, and for being so slow to produce a remedy for this problem. For now, please use the development version of Recapture which seems to be working fine with WordPress 2.5.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recapture/download/
After this semester ends (in three weeks) I will be able to devote more time to making a newer version. In the meantime, test out the development version and let me know if you discover any bugs. If there are any developers out there that would like to help out with making Recapture look prettier and / or function better, please let me know.
Also, parts of the current development version are courtesy of Josh Moles. Thanks Josh!
It has been a while.
On several occasions I have become inspired to blog about something, only to lose all inspiration once I sit down to do so. I have approximately six weeks of school left, inside of which I need to complete two programming projects and one eight-page term paper. This is in addition to working forty hours a week, keeping up with the regular scholastic demands of a twelve credit work-load, and fixing broken computers on the side for people that I care about (in order to spare them a financial raping at the hands of the geek squad).
I’m also doing Script Frenzy next month. Yes, I’m going to write a zombie movie. Expect frequent updates during this time, regarding my progress and unraveling mental state.
Welcome Jared to subparcitizens.net! He hasn’t had much to say yet, but I’m sure he’ll soon be enlightening all of us on the ways of the world. He’s also doing Script Frenzy next month, and yes, he’s also writing a zombie movie. 
Also, Recapture has been downloaded 264 times as of now, and has blocked 112 (presumably) spammers from registering at my blog. Or maybe only one spammer, who has tried to register 112 times unsuccessfully. Now if I only had the time to get a new version around for WordPress 2.5 >_<
Can be the devil, depending on how your theme is configured and how good you are at CSS. Tonight, I struggled for longer than my geek-pride will let me admit, to get Jen’s blog to display centered images. Basically, if you have a section in your stylesheet that goes something like this:
.entry img {
border: 1px solid #888;
float: left;
margin: 5px 10px 5px 0;
}
Comment out the “float: left” like this:
.entry img {
border: 1px solid #888;
/*float: left;*/
margin: 5px 10px 5px 0;
}
Then you will be able to center images in the visual editor by clicking on an image and then the ‘align center’ button. Now, I will be the first to admit that there might be a better way of going about this, but what you see above worked for me, and will hopefully continue to work and not break something else. If anyone has a better solution / workaround, please let me know.
The above code is to make an image centered in the post, with text above and below the image. If you’re trying to center an image and wrap text around it, I cannot help you and I have not tested the above to see if that will work (wrapping text all the way around an image, is just silly in my opinion).
Yeah, it’s really cold outside right now. We got an insane amount of snow last Saturday and it looks as though we’re going to be getting more this weekend. I drove to work in an icy tomb this morning; this could have been prevented if I woke up in enough time to let my car idle for a few minutes, but I’m lazy and tired upon awakening. I’m also too lazy to get all bundled up to simply start a car, which means that my desire and motivation to exit the house at 7:50 AM when it’s 15 degrees Fahrenheit outside is next to nill.
In other news, Zelda - Phantom Hourglass is easily one of the best games for the DS. In fact, I would go so far as to say that it is a reason to own a DS in the first place. I picked it up last weekend (along with a crimson and black DS Lite) and have been playing it whenever possible. Now if I could only find a Wii…
Also I ‘finished’ my first plugin for WordPress. I call it ‘Recapture’ for it shall save the bloggers from user registration spam, or something like that. That last sentence was not intended to make sense. I’ve had it running on this site for about a week now, and it has blocked six bad registration attempts. Some experts might tell you that the code is not that pretty (that’s why it’s beta!), but at least until WordPress comes with its own integrated solution (or bundled plugin) this will have to do. If anyone should stumble upon this and has any commentary on the plugin itself, please contact me. For my next feat, I may have to see about getting this to work on WordPress MU (which I have never used).
I’ve been getting quite a bit of registration spam recently, and it’s really ticking me off. So, tonight instead of doing my homework, I decided to write a plugin that will ‘hopefully’ take care of the problem. At this point, it is hacked together quite badly, and is not user friendly at all, but I plan on changing that this weekend (after my homework). Would anyone like to test it out before I release it to the world? It uses reCAPTCHA so you’ll have to sign up for a free public and private key at their site. I’m not sure that it works one-hundred-percent of the time yet, but I’m logging failed attempts to the database, so we should know within a few days.
Instead, I decided to upgrade to the newly released WordPress 2.3. The upgrading process was as short and simple as ever, so I decided to relive the moment by upgrading Geoff’s blog as well (lets see how long it takes him to notice).
Next Monday (October 1st) I will be leaving for Japan with my father and my next-door neighbor. I’m bringing my MacBook along for the journey, and plan on blogging as much as possible in between taking pictures and doing some homework. I’ll be in Japan over my birthday (The 7th) so everyone who would normally celebrate with me, will just have to wait until I get back.