Tim wrote about his adventure setting up SCode Plugin on a headless hosting: blojsom, anti-splog, and captcha; while Miles wrote about using the plugin on Resin and OS X: Resin, OS X, wrappers and image-generating servlets, SCode plugin clarification, More SCode servlet, SCode servlet.

Those issues are basically related to image generation in general and not just with SCode Plugin. However, the fact that various people are using the plugin on various different environments is a definite good thing for the plugin documentation.

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Quotes from me and some former colleagues after a few years using JIRA:

Without noticing, we started refering issues as JIRAs. Just like saying “I’ll google it” when I want to say “I’ll use a search engine to find some info about it”. JIRA might be going through the same phase of greatness.

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About a week ago, Claus Morell contacted me about his plan to implement a German version of Wish. Lo and behold, it’s now live at www.derwunsch.de. It also has an RSS feed. Good stuff, Claus!

Language support has been an interesting issue with Wish. When the web site started receiving some submissions in Italian, Portuguesse, and some other languages I couldn’t recognize, I thought about having multiple language sections a la Wikipedia. I didn’t go ahead with that because I knew I wouldn’t have enough time to implement and maintain it.

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SCode Plugin v0.3 has been released. If the jar and src files are not yet available from blojsom plugins download page, then email me and I’ll send them to you.

In order to upgrade, simply replace scodeplugin-[prev_version].jar with scodeplugin-0.3.jar .

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David offered me to use Blojsom wiki, so I’ve (yet again) moved my Blojsom plugins documentation there. Check out the available plugins page.

Blojsom uses Confluence for its wiki. If you have used JIRA, you’ll know the sort of excellence that you would’ve expected from an Atlassian product.

The only gripe I had was with its embedded rich text editor which uses TinyMCE. I’m using Firefox 1.5 and this rich text editor kept on replacing “src” with “xsrc” on my code snippets. It’s a problem because users like to copy paste sample codes. At the end I just set Wiki Markup as my default edit view.

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Tagyu4J v0.1 has been released. Tagyu provides tag suggestions for a given text or URL, and Tagyu4J is a Java API used for interacting with Tagyu REST web services interface

I initially misunderstood its authentication mechanism by assuming that it prompts authentication challenges. It turned out that Tagyu checks the authentication header on every request. Wikipedia has the details of HTTP Basic Authentication Scheme.

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