the dojo psi

Wanna View? TKR’s Weekly Mission

I occasionally task a target over at TKR’s project, the part inside the dojo. This week’s mission is my tasking.

If you want to play, GO VIEW by visiting TKR at the Dojo Psi, and — well, the easiest way is just to click “Go View” on the column at far-right after you login, because there is a little blurb at the top of the chat mat that announces the mission with a link.

(The ‘real’ way is to go to the Viewer Studios and on the column at far-left, in the middle section about “Missions”, clicking “Go View! (get a mission)”.)

For those who don’t know anything about Missions, I should mention this:

1. The feedback varies from ‘hard and complete’ to ‘none whatsoever’. In TKR’s “My RV” settings section, you can set your minimum required feedback. Feedback is up to the tasker.

2. The tasking varies because (a) it is allowed to be experimental at times, and (b) it is done by different people every week (TKR staff, generally, with occasional guest-taskers). Taskings may be highly-focused or wide-scope; how they are approached is up to the tasker.

3. You get a task and you have until the next Monday early evening to submit a session. All sessions are public so if you’re shy, use an alias. Viewers get feedback at 7:01pm (dojotime/eastern) Monday nights — privately, only they see it. That gives them time to think about it without distraction, make after-session notes, things like that. The task and its sessions and feedback go “public” at 8:00pm Monday nights (dojotime/eastern). When that happens, there’s a link on the chatmat, or you can click on the purple “RV Galleries” link and then the “Missions” link on the front page, to see all the sessions and details.

4. Every mission has its own discussion thread over on TKR’s RV Web Forum on the TKR at the Dojo Psi board, that is just for that mission (talk about the task, sessions, feedback, etc.).

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Tech headaches

It’s always something. WordPress 2.2 is the latest version of my blog software and I installed it as part of setting up this blog. As it turns out, there are PhP errors in the default installation that were causing errors on my blog. My server support couldn’t help… the problem was not the server.

Now you might think that wading through lines of code is something nerds like me do in my sleep, but you would be overlooking two minor points:
1 – I know nothing about wordpress, and
2 – I know nothing about PhP, the code it’s written in.

Despite this, I actually managed to find two bugs in the source code, which is probably a no-brainer, but of which I’m unreasonably proud. Probably because of the amount of time it took me!

So I’m putting it here so when some poor sap installs WordPress 2.2 (or a new theme later when still on 2.2) and goes searching for why his blog is broken, he might just find this post and it’ll help.

found bug 1
Directory: wp-includes
File: bookmark-template.php

line 331
'category_orderby' => 'name', 'category_order' => 'ASC', 'class' => 'linkcat',
needs to be changed to
'category_orderby' => 'cat_name', 'category_order' => 'ASC', 'class' => 'linkcat',
that resolves the problem of themes which call the bookmarks function such as
php wp_list_bookmarks();

found bug 2
Directory: wp-includes
File: bookmark-template.php
line 293
function get_linkobjectsbyname($cat_name = "noname" , $orderby = 'name', $limit = -1) {

needs to be changed to
function get_linkobjectsbyname($cat_name = "noname" , $orderby = 'cat_name', $limit = -1) {

that resolves the problem of themes which call the categories function such as
php wp_list_categories();

Mind you I also find ‘name’ instead of ‘cat_name’ issues in links.php(line526) and template_functions_category.php(line122) and category.php(line22) but it’s possible those are NOT bugs; changing them didn’t do anything for me, but if I run into more similar bugs I’ll know where to look.

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A blog and a plan

I’ve started this blog so I can talk about things specific to the Dojo Psi, to its projects or plans, and to some larger issues on occasion.

I’ve also revised and updated my firedocs blog, on which I plan to gradually write (or post if written by others) some basic info about viewing I think will be helpful to some.

As usual I have so much going on at once that I’m getting approximately nothing done at any speed worth mentioning. I am working on a book about RV, on a few fiction novels, single mom to an 11 year old drama queen fashion zombie, and fulltime+ employed in the internet/academic publishing industry. I also have my own viewing and personal life of course, meditation efforts that are usually under-pursued for sure, a local family and property that want attention, and a boyfriend who would really like more than ten minutes of my time a day though this seems so unreasonable sometimes. On top of that I have several programming projects I do on nights and weekends (related to the dojo or things it sponsors usually), and other online things (such as blogs and another topic I’m involved with online where I journal/blog and more).

Usually everything is in “ignore” mode except one thing. I get back to everything, in a sort of cycle, by which most people are mad at me or ignoring me or forgot about me. I don’t see how only 24 hours a day can possibly be expected to cover all this.

In any case, the plan for the last week was that I set up a blog for the Dojo Psi “proper” (here), revise my Firedocs RV blog which got its theme trashed months ago, post something on my Red Cairo and My Psiche blogs, help a couple former web clients who need my assistance (MM and CTT), catch up at work, and take care of my recently-injured-cat and my newly-blonder-kid who are both demanding too much of me lately.

Oh yeah, and work toward the new Larger Concept of the dojo’s software that is going to revise what’s underneath TKR’s hood and make all the projects function with the same core setup so it’s easier for the coming management tools to tie into all of them, and for things to actually transfer between projects or between multiple identities, and most importantly, so I’m only developing one thing with some variant displays/features, and not a ton of separate code projects.

I have to post something on the blog so it isn’t empty. So, this message is it.

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