Frontend style

This is my first Wordpress plugin. It displays a weather widget using the unofficial Google weather API.

Features

  • show today’s weather
  • show weather forecast for next 3 days
  • specifiy output language
  • choose between Celsius or Fahrenheit
  • comes with predefined CSS style
  • valid XHTML output

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I decided to share some of my daily cooking experiences here. This is my first recipe for Pad Makua Yow (my own variant).

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 tbsp fish sauce or soy sauce if you are vegetarian
  • 1 tbsp brown sugar
  • 2 fresh chili peppers or powder if you don’t have fresh ones
  • 1 clove chopped garlic
  • 2-4 large eggplants and a couple smaller ones
  • a couple mushrooms if you have
  • 1 bunch thai basil, leaves without stems
  • green chinese chives

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Did you ever wonder about URLs containing parameters like this: domain.tld/page.html&L=1print=1print=1print=1print= and so on. It would also be possible to abuse it for spam like this: domain.tld/page.html&L=1_buy-viagra-at_www.viagra-spam.url

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A couple days ago I had my first experience with Apache Ant. If you have never heard of it before you should definitely check it out. Apache Ant is a very simple JAVA-based build tool with xml-based configuration files for automation.

I wanted to automate the process of importing/exporting specific MySQL database tables.In the next step I wanted to update and commit the data to SVN. After a quick research I found the JAVA lib svntask which is based on SVNKit very useful.

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Los geht’s!

Der eine fängt früher an, der andere später – ich jetzt, aber auf Englisch.