So here we are – wordpress 2.5.1 I finally managed to upgrade my blog. Therefore I used a pretty cool plugin called “Wordpress Automatic Upgrade” which you can find here.
The Problem with Wordpress installations is … you can do so many different thing with wordpress that you can never be sure what your page looks like after the next upgrade/update. For this page I use a modified K2 Template which looked pretty much different after the upgrade of the blog-system. Most of the widgets were offline and some other strage things happened. The automated upgrade plugin uses FTP for its file actions – in my case I had no ftp access to my site up (I always use sftp myself) so I had to configure. I ran into some (selfmade) problems with file perms of the ftp user where the plugin wasn´t a great help debugging. Just be sure, that your ftp user has got all the rights he needs to modify your wordpress installation including making + destroying of folders. But if you got everything set up (backup, backup, backup!!! before you do anything backup! including your database! yes! dont forget the database!) it´s a great help in keeping your installation up to date. And as I found out right now it also keeps your pluging up to date. I´m not sure if that is wordpress or the plugin, but outdated plugins got a new *update me now* button next to them.
Rumours have been around for a long time, but now it´s official! Flickr supports video on its formally “foto” platform. Only “pro” – stands for paid – accounts are able to use the new Video features, but concerning the traffic growth I think this is a plausible move. Videos on flickr are limited to 90 secs (althought uploaded videos can be longer and are cutted by the encoding software). This is really not a bug, but a feature – flickr handles videos like “long” fotos and this is basically what it is in our time. I got myself a Apitek Z300 HD camera. Its small like a cigarette box and the video quality is blasting (when the light is good). With this camera videos are no more than moving longer fotos (like the newspaper in Harry Potter 
I´m currently uploading 1,5 GB of Videodata to flickr. As always the upstream to flickr is not to be called datahighway but 2% are already done. Flickrs doing a very fast h264 encoding and delivers the videos threw the adobe flash plugin. (I would have done it the same way!) The quality is really much better than everything you saw on youtube or googlevideo or any of this platforms. The videoowner can always download the original file back from the flickr servers – so original files are not deleted by flickr. This is great so I can delete them on my local harddisc.
Flickr is my mediamemory. Keep up with that good work. Hopefully all this Microsoft / Yahoo stuff won´t collide with the currently great developments of the flickr team.
Links:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6237174.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/08/flickr-video-launches-a-unique-experience/
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April 11, 2008 in
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Liebe Leser … wo seid ihr hin? Mein Google Analytics wirft mir heute diese deprimierende Statistik an den Kopf. Ich bin nicht mehr populär!! In der Abwärtsspirale gefangen … etwa auch ein Opfer der Immobilienkrise? Berlusconi, Al Quaida, CIA, wer hat hier die Finger im Spiel? Bin ich euch nicht mehr jung genug? Ist dieser Trend nur mit Pornografie zu stoppen? Da muss ich mir wohl einen grösseren Coup einfallen lassen, damit meine 20ct monatlichen Google-Adwords Einnahmen nicht schwinden … ich spare schon seit Januar auf einen Dauerlutscher.
Moin Leute, dieser Blog ist nun schon zum 2ten Mal umgezogen. Von opensuse auf einen ubuntu 6 Server (ja Fabian du hattest mal wieder Recht). Nun muss ich mich von meiner liebgewonnenen yast Paketverwaltung auf ein (noch etwas störrisches) apt-get umgewöhnen. Zusätzlich habe ich heute den Vorsatz gefasst mich mit JBoss Seam auseinanderzusatzen und somit die ersten Schritte in meine nächste MVC Umgebung zu starten.
Wordpress Installationen umzuziehen ist auf den ersten Blick (fast hätte ich auf den ersten Blog geschrieben) nicht trivial. Ich habe letztendlich dreist die mysql Datenbank-Dateien auf Fileebene rübergewuchtet und war erstaunt, dass dies zwischen opensuse und ubuntu mit plesk einfach funktioniert. Musste nur die Filerechte neu setzen. Soweit meine News aus der wunderbaren IT Welt. Letzte Woche saß ich gebannt vor den re:publica Livestreams und hab mich etwas geärgert nicht vor Ort zu sein.