Ahh, have all bloody Twitter plugins broken all of a sudden? Will this one work?

Thats how interesting my Tweets are…

I’m trying to find out what is the best WordPress Twitter plugin? The ones promising I find I try out on this site, which is why I’m all of  a sudden is posting a lot ;) Twitter Tools, Simple Twitter Connect, WP to Twitter…

Please feel free to send me suggestions for WordPress plugins – that you think I should try or that you think I should create ;) I’m working on several promising plugins at the moment but they will probably be posted on my companys website first.

Well, the first plugin didn’t post anything to Twitter. But it might be because I already had a Twitter-plugin enabled (or is there a delay for Tweets?). Perhaps they are using the same API-classes or something. I’m giving it a go again.

I’m evaluating a lot of WordPress-plugins at the moment and they might get tested on this blog – so you know why I might behave weird for some time ;) This is work I’m doing for a client of mine, but you have to give the plugins a go before you install them, right? The first ones are a bunch of social plugins… it will be interesting to see if they deliver.

I have for a long time used FileZilla for FTP-client but have been worried that the password files is not protected. Just open it in a texteditor and grab the passwords. Doesn’t feel very secure ;)

So I have installed TruCrypt, created a volume and installed the portable version of FileZilla. Fastest solution for me when I did not want to switch FTP-client on Windows. Sure, the passwords for normal FTP-account is still sent as text but at least now the storagefile is protected. On OS X I switched client to Cyberduck.

Is Komodo the way to go? Well, I am convinced. I have been working a bit with TextMate and Coda on the Mac, and e-texteditor on Windows. I like features in all of these. But I would like a crossplatform editor (since I work an the three major platforms), is fast but has enough features to work with. Komodo Edit by Active State has it all.

It has

• Project management
• Good Find/Replace
• Snippets (which you can set to Key Bindings), Macros, Commands
• Plugin friendly, and available plugins (like a source tree and database explorer)
• Good code completion
• It is fast enought
• Works on Windows, OS X, Linux
• Can Import/Export snippets between platform

Check the website at Active State for more features. One thing I found is that I need to change the default setting to get it the way I like (for example Tab indent and not Spaces). Here is some of the steps I use:

Change indention

In the Preferences / Editor / Indention, change Prefer tabs over spaces, and change “Number of spaces…” and “Width of each tab…” to 8. I discovered indention works better when both is set to the same value (which BTW is the same with Netbeans).

Fix so that Ctrl + Shift + W closes all files

Open Preferences / Editor / Key Bindings. In the input field “Commands” write “Select end” and select “Editor: Select to end of word”. Click “Clear”. Now write “Close all”  in the input field “Commands”. Select “Editor: Close all buffers”. Select the input field “New key bindings” and hold down Ctrl + Shift + W.  Click Ok, now your done! :)

Install Add-Ons

Extension and Plugins are the same format as in Firefox and Thunderbird, .xpi. There is an Extension  that is called NST and gives you a sourcetree for the file you are working in.

I wanted to use subversion on Windows 7 since I purchased a Vaio-laptop (I’m going dual-boot with Ubuntu). I installed Collabnets Subversion Edge and RapidSVN. Started to checkout repos from external drive. I got into a lot of problems with errors, for exmpple “can’t move” files and so on. It turned out to be the Windows Indexing service. I needed to shut it off, and things started to work better. So if you have troubles with svn on Windoes 7, try disabling the indexing for the working copies and repositories.

I have had some problem with Pidgins “Waiting for network connection” (on my Linux-machine). Apparently the problem involved Gnomes NetworkManager. After a lot of searching I found an easy solution that worked for me. I use the -f option when starting Pidgin which tells it to ignore NetworkManager. You can add it in your Shortcut/Launcher if you don’t want to use commandline. If it doesnt work you might found a solution here.

If you are a Windows user I guess that the problem could be related to your networkconnection somehow.