MangoOrange™

I started working on Python start of the year and I learned a lot while I’m doing my internship in my current company, MooWee Inc. So it’s logical for me to try to pick up Django as the web framework.

One of the hurdle I met and everyone else met is trying to install MySQL adapter for Python. Being the most popular database used, it is crucial to have it work rather than circumventing around the problem by using alternative database such as SQLite or PostgreSQL.

After a few hours of searching, I found a few references that somewhat not entirely complete. I did some cross referencing and found two brings me to the entire solutions, which I’m about to show below.

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written by mickeyckm \\ tags: 1.2.2, mac osx, mysqldb, python

I know is a little late for a release for WordPress 2.5. I would like to apologize for that as I’m very busy with my current work at Silicon Valley. Thankful, I found some time to work on the new release. The improvements might not be a lot but it’s worthwhile a new release. Hope you would like it.

So what’s new in i2Theme 1.1 and i3Theme 1.7?
Gravatar Plugin support
Giving new identity to your blog readers. It’s a cool stuff to have. Enhance your reader to give their feedback as well. Hope you like it. You have to download Gravatar Plugin to enable this feature.

Pings are now separated (click to see the screenshot)
Yup, finally, it’s separated. It even support the famous Paged Comments, of course, with a little hacked. Please download the plugin from MangoOrange instead. I have sent my modification and hopefully the author will include it in the future version. Till then, you have to use the hacked version. No worries, the changes are minimal.

WordPress 2.5 CSS Element support
The newly added CSS elements alignright and alignleft has been used to usually float images left and right of the post. Many having issue of no padding causing the image to stick closely with the text. No worries. It’s all fixed now.

What’s the status of the i2Theme and i3Theme?
Currently, there are over 58,000 downloads. Woohoo! Thank you everyone for the support. I will continue to work hard to try to cater for everyone’s demand and suggestions on improving the theme.

New way to support MangoOrange…
MyHappyPlanet has been a great system in helping people to improve their language in a practical way. They includes helping you to find partner to converse. Nothing beats having someone to practice conversation. Not only that, they have a community uploading videos with translation to help you better enjoy the entertainment while learning a new language. So, check it out and sign up HERE.

written by mickeyckm \\ tags: Downloads, gravatar, i2theme, i3theme, new releases, pings

(Image above is taken from Lifehacker)

Feeling bored with the current features offered by Gmail? Wanted to try something new from the Gmail Lab?

You got it. Recently, I read an article from Lifehacker that teach me how to enable it. Just copy and paste the link in your URL: https://mail.google.com/mail/?labs=1#settings

As the “Lab” word suggests that the features are still in experimental stage, hence, Google will not be responsible for any mishaps. I tried it, so far so good.

Have fun.

written by mickeyckm \\ tags: gmail, labs

The INSTALL file that comes with the FAAC and FAAD has a little problem. I was trying to install both encoder and decoder for the MPEG-4 files and I met the problem of not able to run ./bootstrap. After searching around, I finally found that we need to type “sh ./bootstrap” instead. Simple.

Note: I’m using Terminal on Mac OS X Leopard.

written by mickeyckm \\ tags: codecs, faac, faad, ffmpeg, install, mpeg4

Some cool stuff shared by my friend. Worth 8 mins of your time. Check it out.

written by mickeyckm \\ tags: killer, presentation