TechieDan

Setting up your Java environment to work on is as easy as how it seems to be. With Sun now offering executable JDK program, nothing much needs to be done.

As of date, current JDK is the JDK 6.0 kit which was said to be powerful that the previous versions beforehand. Download and then install and voila, you’re good to run. All you need is to go into the bin folder of the JDK and run the javac and the java commands. This time I won’t be using an IDE though to explain t

he procedure.

If you wanna set up your environment variables on Windows, here’s how you do it on Windows XP.

Right Click My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables.

Under User Variable for Users > New. Type the following.

Variable Name : JAVA_HOME
Variable Value : [Location of JDK folder] ex: D:\JDK6.0

After this you may now freely use your JDK to compile and run your code anywhere on the PC environment. I will touch on the compilation part using pure JDK later instead of an IDE in the coming parts.

If you’re a wordpress user, you would have seen some wordpress have this function to include a thumbnail image and maybe sometimes include your Mood level.

Based on a blog at AbsoluteSpook.com, one can add in their thumbnail to the blog entry. Well, by default an automatic graphic is displayed instead. By instruction on the theme, all one need is to modify the custom fields in Wordpress! Now the problem is how can one do that?

A simple explanation is go to your blog post that you wanted to modify or add the custom fields and select Custom Fields Below.

Choose a Key and the value.

Key - Name
Value - Daniel

Then add this

<?php the_meta(); ?>

Here’s how one can display too.

<ul class='post-meta'>
<li><span class='post-meta-key'>Curently Reading:
</span> Calvin and Hobbes</li>
<li><span class='post-meta-key'>Today's Mood:</span>
 Jolly and Happy</li>
</ul>

There are actually many more ways to use the custom field in wordpress. If you really need to know, you can refer to the Wordpress help guide for more extreme use of the Custom Field.

Just so that you’re not baffled by what’s on the title, it looks like Jai of blogohblog.com is giving away free Wordpress Premium Themes, yes 10 of them out to maybe 10 of the participants out there.

Being a long time subscriber of BlogOhBlog, I definitely wouldn’t want to miss this chance, as this theme was also created solely due to the mentioned site. The conditions of this contest is relatively simple, all I need is to mentioned that I am taking part in this contest right here and I might stand a chance to win the free premium themes.

I also think I need to change my theme into something worthwhile, don’t you think so?

It pays to learn more skills in blogging about gadgets. Sometimes finding the specifications of a certain gadget is easy if it’s a cut and paste, but experiencing what the real gadget feels like is a different part altogether.

Most of my gadgets that TechieDan reviews on this website, are first hand experiences with a little bit touch of whether is it economically safe and cheap. Let’s talk about browsers right now, the thickness of the battle between Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer is now being intruded with Google Chrome. Though, most of my visitors now hails from Mozilla Firefox due to it’s open source plugins and additional tools that come along with it. We try hard to find the Best extensions for Firefox but with the amount of extensions in the web, it’s bound not to be easy to review all of them.

The web now plays an important part of your website and buildup of it. There are many tools out there to see if you’re ranked amongst the top searches for SEO practices. Sometimes we need to check out if the site is cached by google well enough. Now if you’re using Firefox, they have the Google Cache Checker Firefox extension plugin available.

I am more of an open source guy, and I am sorry folks out there if the TechieDan is bias towards this, but so far extensions and plugins are only majorly supported by Mozilla’s Firefox.

Enough of Mozilla’s Firefox, remember I did a review on a Youtube converter tool that with this, you can also convert it to mp3 and other formats. If you need more formats and need a review maybe you can try check out this Blaze Media Pro review from Gadget Advisor. So far, this is what I call a proper review of gadgets which includes top priority gadgets and not just everyday news that I see everyday on forums.

After what most of us are expecting Wordpress version 2.7 to be out anything end of this month, it looks like the Wordpress team gave us another slightly different surprise. A new update for a possible glitch and security issue.

This is the excerpt of the release patch.

A vulnerability in the Snoopy library was announced today.  WordPress uses Snoopy to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard.   Although this seems to be a low risk vulnerability for WordPress users, we wanted to get an update out immediately.  2.6.3 is available for download right now.  If you don’t want to download the whole release to get the security fix, you can download the following two files and copy them over your 2.6.2 installation.

1. wp-includes/class-snoopy.php
2. wp-includes/version.php

Wouldn’t that be nice? Instead of downloading the whole thing, you just need to replace the two files over your 2.6.2 installation. The post for this update can be seen here.

So if you haven’t yet do the update yet, do it now before you get yourself desecuritirized.