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The Blogspot Stack 1.2.1 for Stacks with RapidWeaver

Version 1.2.1 of the Blogspot.stack was released on 19 March 2018

If you purchased this stack, you can re-download the installer via your Paddle account.
If not, you can read more about it here .

Changes, additions and fixes:

• When using Disqus, you can now have the number of comments shown, in each post.
• Categories, archives and the RSS-feed would not render with some PHP installations. Reason: on those servers PHP is not allowed to fetch data via regular PHP commands. This has been fixed by using HTTP requests.

The Blogspot Stack 1.2.0 for Stacks with RapidWeaver

Version 1.2.0 of the Blogspot.stack was released on 16 March 2018

If you purchased this stack, you can re-download the installer via your Paddle account.
If not, you can read more about it here .

Changes, additions and fixes:

• You can now change FontAwesome icons. There is a new section, called 'FontAwesome Icons', where the checkbox has been moved to and input fields are added where you can change the icons, supported by Stacks : https://fontawesome.com/v4.7.0/icons/
• The RSS-feed link now links to XML data, generated by the Blogspot.stack, on your own webpage. The XML data is pulled from Blogger and the links to your Blogger-posts are changed so they point to your webpage's blog. When you have chosen to filter the posts by category or categories, the RSSfeed data is also filtered by those same categories.
• Added a blank option to the 'Time format'-popup menu. When chosen, only the post's date will be shown.
• Removed the 'Show RSS link'-checkbox. If you want to list the RSS link, place the 'Blogspot RSS Feed link'-stack where you want it, or use the code snippet.
• Removed the 'Enable categories'-checkbox. If you want to list the list of categories, place the 'Blogspot Categories'-stack where you want it, or use the code snippet.
• Added CSS to .blog-entry and .blog-entry-body classes, so the use of float and other styles do not affect the layout.
• Version number in edit-mode now shows the actual version number.
• Some oddity with server locales / timezones when formatting the archive dates correctly has been fixed.
• A problem with detecting if Blogger is reachable has been fixed.
• Some problems with showing Blogger or Disqus comments have been fixed.
• The localized string for 'Comments' was not used with Disqus comments. Fixed.
• Some problems with displaying UTF8 characters in localization strings have been fixed.
• Changed all HTTP URLs to HTTPS URLs where appropriate

Read the user manual for more info on how to use the code snippets.

SetEXIFData 6.8

A new version of SetEXIFData , my GUI for exiftool by Phil Harvey , is now available:

v6.8
(14 Mar 2018)

Added:

• For video files that are recognized as such by macOS, the following dates are now updated also: ModifyDate, TrackCreateDate, TrackModifyDate, MediaCreateDate and MediaModifyDate. These all get the 'create date' date.

Install CentOS 6 in Parallels Desktop for Mac

Recently I needed a bare-minimum CentOS 6 Linux environment to test Lasso and PHP-scripts for possible errors. If those scripts will run here, they'll probably run everywhere.

I've written down the steps I had to take and posted them on this webpage , to make it easier for you if you also need such a virtual Linux machine.

In Holland Staat Een Huis

Een jaar of 5 geleden kwam ik het boek In Holland Staat Een Huis van J.C. Alders tegen.

Dit vond ik zó'n leuk boek, dat ik in 2012 volledig heb ingescand.

Ik zag dat ik het plan had dit boek destijds op mijn website te plaatsen, en dat nooit heb gedaan. Dus doe ik vandaag.

Echt de moeite waard om eens te lezen.

Download de .cbz vanuit deze Dropbox folder

Let's Encrypt - Free SSL/TLS Certificates

Since webbrowsers like Google Chrome and Firefox begin to complain more and more about insecure HTTP traffic, I'm converting all my domains  to HTTPS. For some domains I use the Comodo Essential Wildcard SSL certificates, but for the most I use the free single-domain SSL certificates from Let's Encrypt - Free SSL/TLS Certificates

I have a very skilled hosting provider (ANU Internet Services) and when I prepare my vhosts, he runs certbot to install the certificates, also for my domain-aliases. After that, I add my permanentRedirect directives, et voilá, HTTPS everywhere in 10 minutes.

Please donate to Let's Encrypt to motivate them to keep up this very good work!

The Blogspot Stack 1.1.5 for Stacks with RapidWeaver

Version 1.1.5 is out with the following changes:

Released on 05 mar 2018.

• Better error handling.
• Reports error message from Blogger, when there is one.
• Added localization field for 'No posts found' string.
• When no posts are found, a 'No posts found'-string will be shown. If you do not want this message displayed, simply empty the corresponding localization field.
• The categories-list is now sorted case-insensitive. Categories in Blogger are case-sensitive!
• Added a category-filter to only show posts and an archive-list of specific categories. If you specify more than 1 categpry (comma-separated), only posts which have all specified categories will be listed.
• Moved the common shared PHP code files to the side-wide assets folder.
  This means that you can clean-up the 'files' folders inside your blog-folders.
  To do this, first republish all your blog-pages with RW, then start your FTP client. Open your site folder, open the folder of the blog-page, open the 'files' or 'index_files' folder and delete all of the following files, when you see them there:
  
  • archiveMonths.xml
  • blogContents.php
  • blogEntry.php
  • blogspot.css
  • blogspot.js
  • bshelpers.inc
  • bspear.inc
  • bsremotegrab.inc
  • bsrequest.inc
  • bssocket.inc
  • bsurl.inc
  • bsxml.inc
  • feedtimeline.js
  • LHPEAR.php
  • localVars.php
  • rapidblog.js
  • rapidBlogHelpers.php
  • remoteGrab.php
  • Requestrb.php
  • Socketrb.php
  • URLrb.php
  • xmlrb.php
• RSS feed link is a link again.
• Various internal bugs fixed.
• Updated the documentation on this page.

If you purchased this stack, you can re-download the installer via your Paddle account.
If not, you can read more about it here .

ICSviewer 3.5


My ical/ics calendar file viewer ICS Viewer is updated to version 3.5

v3.5
What has changed:
- Resizing the modal sheet windows is now disabled.
- Some other UI and code improvemnts.

Switch from Onedrive and Google Drive to Dropbox

SkyDrive, Onedrive and Google Drive are, as far as I care, exit. I made the move to Dropbox, and have moved my Calibre library there. So ... I have replaced all old links to Skydrive, Onedrive and Google Drive by a shared Dropbox-link.

If you find a link to a file or book in my blog history which still points to SkyDrive or OneDrive, or Google Drive : please send me an e-mail with the faulty link, so I can fix it.