My blog is mobile!

Posted on June 11th, 2008

I’ve just installed the WordPress Mobile Edition plugin for WordPress, which means my blog is mobile.
So, does that make it a moblog or a blobile ??? :)

So, if you’re viewing this on a web browser you’re probably wondering what the site actually looks like on a mobile device. I can’t take a picture of it (d’uh!), but it’s basically a plain text list of recent posts – with all the formatting taken out.

I was curious as to how the plugin detects whether the user-agent is mobile. It was straightforward. An array of user agent strings for small browsers (DoCoMo, Wii, Symbian) is created, and if the user agent matches an element of the array, then the plugin generates a mobile-friendly layout.

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My article was plagiarised – is the offender’s response sufficient?

Posted on June 9th, 2008

Today I found out that one of the articles I had written for PHPWomen had been plagiarised, by someone running a development company. I was more disappointed than angry because;

  • PHP is a development community - we are supposed to have respect for one another as developers
  • I wouldn’t have minded if the article had been referenced and commented on
  • The person who committed the plagiarism, although young, appears to be quite switched on

The correspondence between Tim and myself follows;

Hi Tim,

I was just wondering why you plagiarised my article from PHPWomen and passed it off as your own?

http://www.phpwomen.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=225&start=0&S=dc5fb133c9c86f9fb3deb2aed6242e60

http://debuggable.com/posts/comparison-operators-when-equals-does-equal-equals:480f4dfd-e744-445d-8717-45b3cbdd56cb

Regards,
Kathy

Tim’s reply;

Okay I can’t seem to fix it for now.

I will delete the post now. I obviously should have linked back to you explaining your article instead of reflecting it and adding my two cents here and there.

I hope you are fine with the deletion. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Best,
Tim

Well, at least he’s done the right thing by deleting it – but he never should have copied it in the first place!

Is the deletion enough, or should he publish a public apology?

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WordPress upgrades are so easy!

Posted on June 8th, 2008

My installation of WordPress was a bit out of date, so thought I would update it – it was so easy! All that it entailed was downloading the new files and uploading them via FTP.

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