Annoying Wordpress thing…
It seems Wordpress is hard coding the domain name into the database. How smart is that, or have I missed something? When I first set the site up on my local development server I soon noticed that various links were written hard with the domain and everything. Obviously that would f**k thing up once the site was moved to the public server. So I went into the settings and saw that there were two fields – Wordpress address and Blog address – containing absolute paths. So I changed them to relative onces, e.g /blog instead of http://strindberg.loc/blog and things seemed to work properly.
Now I just realized that the guids in the RSS feed pointed to my development server. I looked in the database table and saw that there were hard coded references to http://strindberg.loc. So with a little UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = REPLACE(guid, 'strindberg.loc', 'www.poppa.se') I thought I had solved the problem. But then I realized some other guids in the RSS is generated on the fly, and they get f**ked up since the Wordpress address now is relative and thus some guids looks like http:///blog/some-url/. Is that good or what?
And try to figure out how to find out where those guids gets generated. My idea was to find where they are generated and there insert the HOST dynamically, but since there’s a zillion apply_filter(...) it’s virtually impossible to find where the shit gets generated (thanks to Netbeans it’s otherwise simple to follow the chain of execution. Just ctrl+click on a function call and the source of that function will be loaded.)
Ok, so now I have to put on my Sherlock hat and see if I can solve this. I find it hard to believe you shouldn’t be able to move a Wordpress site from one domain to another without having to work your ass off!
If anyone have a solution – it’s perfectly possible I’m missing out on something here – I’m happy to know!
Visual C# 2008 Express bug
The other day at work I was hacking up a console application that converts an Excel workbook to chosen format. This is to be used in a web application where some people can upload an Excel file that will populate a MySQL database. To make it easier to parse the Excel file the console application will save a copy of the file as a tab separated file that is easier to parse (I will share the code when done).
Visual C# 2008 default layout
Anyhow! At work I use Visual C# 2008 Express Editon when – very rarely – hacking C# and it annoyed me that the code part was too far to the left for me to feel comfortable. So I though I could displace the right column with class viewer and solution explorer and put that on my right screen, narrowing the main window and put farther to the right on my left screen.
So I did and it felt alright – until I tried to compile the application. Visual C# just crashed big time! I didn’t have any clue why at that moment so I fired it up again and had to displace the right column again and put everything where I wanted it. I tried to compile again and boom, crash again!
So I thought: What the heck! Fired the thing up again, displaced the right column but this time I thought I’d just close the application so it would remember my settings the next time it was started. So I just hit ALT+F4 and boom, crash again. After repeating this again I came to the conclusion that Visual C# 2008 crashes if you displace the right column and then tries to either compile the current project or close the application it self. There’s probably some other actions that will cause it to crash as well.
My desired layoutThe final conclusion is that I will have to use the application layout dear Microsoft has decided I should use. Thank you very much! Okey, I can live with it but it’s a bit annoying!
