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Yes, CeBIT 2010 is a event to remember with showcases of so many things coming up this year. I talked to a wordpress-deutschland.org representer (sorry didn’t catch your name) about the upcoming WordPress 3.0 and its multi-site feature.

And I got me one of the limited edition WordPress DE bags along with a nice sticker , thank you ^^

Maybe a full review of the happenings in Hanover later, as 2300km of bus travel do take the life out of a man.

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In one particural case, you don’t want to disable WP registration but just redirect the page so some other script takes care of it. That happened to me while working on a WordPress and bbPress website. The solution is quite simple:

add_action(‘login_form_register’, ‘redirectregister’);
function redirectregister(){wp_redirect(get_option(’siteurl’) . ‘/bb/register.php’);}

add this where wordpress will find it, in your functions file or just any plugin.

Just a small update for joomkey, a language file. As I am not using this module actively I don’t have the time or the will to move it forward more.  But some people are using it.

So todays update is a dutch language file, thanks Chris

mod_joomkey.nl-NL

And once again for all the others:

• This module displays a on screen keyboard that attaches itself to all html text fields and input fields.
• To use it, you have to select one of those fields.
• You can place this module in any visible position
• It will use the local language, you may need to make a file with your locale (even if it is the same as standard English)
• As it looks at Joomla’s locale, it will work with JoomFish or similar..
• It wont work inside frames/iframes (use the firefox extension instead)
• You can make it do other stuff with the buttons (as in print whole words as in iphone’s .com button etc)

As most who use this module probably do so with a kiosk in mind, I would recommend the Firefox keyboard extension I built.

Finally got my turn to try out Jolicloud, a “cool new OS for your netbook“. I learned about it several weeks ago and it took quite a while for me to get a invite.

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Microsoft once again on the trail of mischief, as the old “get the facts” got hold of Internet Explorer 8.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/get-the-facts/browser-comparison.aspx

If you looked at that and got a head-spin, you are not the only one. First let me note the language the so called “facts” are presented in. One would expect more from the “worlds biggest software company”.  http://kilianvalkhof.com/ie8fun/ makes more sense.

Now lets talk about the lenghts MS is going to promote IE8

• First off, a connection of  videos http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/videos.aspx that surely cost them plenty

• Secondly, more videos promoted by several celebrities: (for free ? i think not)

  http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/nethistory/

• Thirdly, they are trying a pure giveaway on a pay per download to charity
  http://browserforthebetter.com

$1.15 per download to Feeding America® up to a maximum of $1,000,000

They only want to get 860k downloads ?  Firefox 3 got 8mill in 24hours http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/ and Safary got 11 mill in 3 days http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/06/12safari.html.

• Hey, if they are giving away loads of money why not give it to the people, eh ? Or at least the lucky fella who will get the 10 grand promised by Microsoft today:

http://www.microsoft.com/australia/ie8/competition/default.aspx

* Hekos expects a banner with ” you just won 10,000$ ”
<Hekos> blinking and all
<Hekos> you can only see it in IE8 cause FX has a working ad/popup blocker
<Hekos> and you cant see it in <ie8 cause it crashes your system
That’s for making me stay up late to debug IE again, M$.

Hey MS what do you think about people just not caring about you ? Fact is, if they KNOW about other browsers, they are using them. If they are using them, they know you are full of sh1t. No add is going to help you. If you want people to upgrade, why not force the upgrade on them with a Update like you always do ?

Related Links:

http://www.geektechnica.com/2009/06/busting-ie8s-mythbusting/

http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Taking_Microsoft_to_Task_Over_IE8__Myths_