Random musings in IT

Thanks to Miguel Molina's translation efforts, the add-on is now available in  Spanish!

As usual the add-on is available on the release site, or on GitHub.

You can use this direct link to download the add-on.

Interesting how much effect the new posts have on my blog's otherwise quite feeble statistics.
Well even though it looks nice, it's still too low to deduct anything about it, and I consider the increase a statistical error.

If this trend continues, I might reach and maybe break my all time top of 54 page views a day. ☺ There is still some room for improvement.

Interesting fact, when another of my blogs got to the first page of index.hu, it had over 100.000 visits a day.

I really hated having to switch languages, when I switched to writing from Hungarian and English. Many times I was writing mail, or working on an article in English, when a Hangouts message popped up where I had all my words underlined by the English spellchecker.

Finally after over a year in progress, guys at Google managed to add the feature to Chrome.

Too bad it's quite hidden at the moment, and even though I followed it on the bug tracker it didn't appear in my basic settings panel.

If you want to enable it, follow the instructions here, or just click here and enable the multi-lingual-spellchecker option.

(NB: Doesn't work on Android, or IOS)

This is the fourth post in my attempt to start a blogging habit.

The last couple of months, I've been looking for a new position, after a short sabbatical leave. In these months I've realized, how underdeveloped the state of enterprise architecture is in Hungary.

In this article, I'll try to summarize my thoughts about the benefits of having a consistent enterprise architecture for a company, and the reason this position is not sought for in most Hungarian companies.

tl;dr

Enterprise Architecture is not applicable for most companies. Only independent, prosperous, complex and on top of that mature organizations develop the need to establish such a role.

There are so few of them, it makes it virtually impossible to find a job there.

I should have studied to work in a bakery.

Freeplane add-ons can have a properly designed internationalization mechanisms, that change the text according to your language settings. Unfortunately this will also show the [translate me] for all unsupported languages.

It's only a few minutes to do your translation if you want to get rid of that annoying message!

This is the third article in my 21 day blogging marathon. It is not quite as polished, as it could be.

Join the marathon by adding meaningful comments all the way!

I got myself a Mercury MW3030R router from China a couple of weeks ago. It's a dual band router, which can actually reach speeds of 300Mbs over the 5Ghz. It was so  cheap I didn't bother looking too deep into the specifications. It turned out, the router only supports Chinese language. It also turned out, there is no option to either flash a new firmware, without doing some soldering, and firmware digging. I'm not really good with hardware, and it didn't want to waste time which would almost certainly result in a battered, smoking bricked device.

I had to find a way to do the configuration, without having to learn Chinese first.

This is the second article in my 21 day blogging marathon. It is not quite as polished, as it could be.

Join the marathon by adding meaningful comments all the way!

I use a quite old, and battered Acer laptop with an I5 2nd generation processor and a "feeble" 8GB memory, for my personal projects.

It works fine, as long as I work on my smaller hobby projects, Freeplane GTD+ or the MindWeb which only require a  smallish development environment, but it quickly becomes a bottleneck as soon as I start up my heavier Android development environment, as that requires full processor  emulation using the Android emulator.

It's quite useful to keep the computer running hot, to keep my fingers warm, and my tea next to the air went hot, in these cold autumn afternoons. On the long run however it will certainly damage the fan or even burn the processor. I had to find a way to keep the emulator overhead down.

It has been quite a long time, since I started blogging. It's been going on and off for a long time, writing posts for various reasons, like about sharing experiences in  solving non-trivial issues, starting up new projects,  getting some practice in presenting my ideas in writing (AKA bullshit generator), or whenever I had way too much time to waste.

Generally a post takes me about a couple of hours, sometimes even a few days to produce, as I always try to go on, and polish it as long as I don't get so fed up with the post, that I just publish it.

Now I decided to stand up and challenge myself for a 21 day blogging marathon.

Why 21 days? They say it takes just three weeks of doing something, to start a habit. Even though it seems to be a myth, it gives good grounds to get some writing practice.

Every day starting today, I will publish a post, about basically anything, that is business or work related. It will not be a well polished piece, and might not contain revelations, and probably will mix some facts up, but it will be written.  The posts might vary on any subject I come across, from business management to hardcore development, whatever comes to my mind at that very moment.

For that I invite anyone to join me on the journey, for a 21 day commenting marathon, to share their thoughts on the subjects I bring up. I promise to invite anyone for a beer, who keeps up with me. (as long as their comment makes at least as much sense than the original post did :))

That'll do for the first entry, see you tomorrow!

After digging deep inside the bowels of Freeplane OSGI resource loading and the flyingsaucer resource loading I've pieced together a solution to actually be able to display the built-in Freeplane items in the "browser"

The action list is redesigned, the priorities are displayed as icons, the done and incomplete items are displayed as icons. The contexts that have icons defined to them are replaced with their corresponding icons.

Right now it's working and is a known waste of good memory (should reuse icons) #43

The flyingsaucer HTML renderer was updated to it's last version.

Solved issues:
#42 The checkboxes didn't display properly under some OS-es
#41 Multi-level projects with HTML content are not rendered properly
#40 Fixed HTML entity handling, while keeping the formatted strings intact

After a long time, (as I was trying desperately to get access to my old sourceforge login),  I finally managed to put the add-on up on the official Freeplane wiki.

A new logo is also hacked together, just to distinguish it from the original add-on's logo.

Link to the official Freeplane add-on wiki