This is not so much a “How To” guide as much as it is a mild warning to the developers of Social Networking plugins for WordPress.

I run another WordPress powered website for Comics In Action, an improv comedy troupe I organize. So, I’ve played around with various Social Network plugins for the various networking websites like YouTube, MySpace (Ugh!) and Facebook.

Mostly, I’ve tried-out Social Links by Kareem Sultan and Social Links Sidebar by Commareus. Both have wide support for Social Network website, even sites I’ve never even heard of. A bonus if I ever find the need to use them.

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Ubuntu

Whoa…that’s a mouthful.

I’ve been working on my own local Ubuntu 9.04 web server for over a week and finally got all the pieces put together (Apache2, MySQL and PHP). But, what I REALLY wanted was a way to tunnel into my Ubuntu web server and administer it from my old Mac G4 Powerbook.

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Integrating mySQL with Java Servlets is tedious, but at least the GUI is easier to derive. Looks like it works OK, but there are still some java stuff I keep forgetting:

1. Converting String to an Int -> Integer.parseInt(str); OR new Integer(str).intValue(); OR Integer.valueOf(str).intValue();
2. String to byte[] -> str.getBytes();
3. byte[] to String -> str.getBytes();
4. int to String -> Integer.toStrin(n); OR “” + n;
5. Integer to int -> num.intValue();
6. String to char[] -> str.toCharArray();
7. char[] to String -> new String(ca,0,ca.length);

Ugh. Now, I’m calling it a day.

The current Web Programming project is integrating mySQL with a Java Servlet front-end. This is fine, especially since current Java GUI’s are difficult to create. Doing this through a web page makes MUCH more sense. However, I can’t use cookies to hold some of my session data because my data occasionally contains characters that cookies don’t want me to use. I suppose I could chuck data back and forth using hidden text fields, but I have yet to determine how to parse through more than one hidden field. I don’t want to use instance variables in my java code, because that means I’ll run into problems if MORE THAN ONE client attaches to mySQL (i.e. synchronization issues).

Well. It’s finally up and running. It did take some time with tossing hidden fields back and forth. Actually, the java language has some good hooks that I wasn’t aware of. Nice.