What’s up?

So the problem is that Chris Pearson creator of the premium WordPress theme Thesis and Matt Mullenweg, founder/creator of WordPress disagrees about if the themes and plugins for WordPress also needs to be GPL licensed. And theny are lot alone many developers follows this debate and have their roots for the different sides. It all basically boils down to different interpretations of the GPL license (in regards to if a theme needs to inherit the GPL license) and as I understand there is not a certain definition of this yet. For now there is just the opinion of each individual or organisation. And this is why this is so interesting. The outcome of this situation could have a big consequence for CMS that uses GPL license or the theme creators. I say could because it may not be this situation that triggers the final legal definition.

Comments on the debate

I understand both Chirs and Matts side of the situation. Chis is defending his work and livelihood, being completely convinced that he can have his own license on Thesis. And Matt on the other side can not let what he believes is a violation of the license just pass by for other to follow. These sides are not crazy. They are reasonable if you look at their respective views. The one thing I don’t understand is how reluctant Chris is to use GPL even if it would not compromise his work and income. Matt points to that almost all other themes is using GPL and pointing to examples that uses and actually change to GPL and doing very well. Matt even said he would point people to Chris and Thesis if it was changed to GPL. He still would not consider it. Only if he by himself found out that GPL could be used, would he would change. I just didn’t get the extreme reluctance. But I understand that he wants to fight for his opinion and not give in. If that is the best thing I can not say. Maybe in the end he should have or maybe he will go out with his flag up high. We will have to see how it ends.

What to think?

I am not sure what to think about this situation. For now it is just one opinion against the other, backed up by different lawyer or organisations. That being said I find these articles interesting:

http://perpetualbeta.com/release/2009/11/why-the-gpl-does-not-apply-to-premium-wordpress-themes/
http://perpetualbeta.com/release/2009/12/why-the-gplderivative-work-debate-doesnt-matter-for-wordpress-themes/

http://apeatling.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/thesis-and-the-gpl/ http://jane.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/thesiswp/

What do you think? Don’t be shy, feel free to express it in the comments.

So now what?

I could only guess what would happen next and I do not what to speculate too much about it. It could go to curt and be settled there. The outcome will in that case certainly be interesting. Until then we can not much more than speculate, make summaries and express our opinion on twitter and blogs;)

Google and Apple are two quite different companies in different markets. Obviously Android and iPhone is competitors, and more may come, but for now they have mostly different markets. Google does developer tools and web services (main target/market: developers, corporate and consumers) and Apple does hi-end, exclusive consumer products (main target/market: consumers).

Humble

I generalized Google’s and Apple’s target groups, but I understand that that it’s not necessarily the reality. Google is moving over in the consumer market with Android and soon Google TV. The interesting this is to see how they do it and what their attitude is like. In most all aspects of Google (if not all?) they are like “we made this, and are excited to see what you guys can do with it” and really wants user input on what the products is like and how to improve it. They give you a choice, they are open, they listen to user/developers, they empower users and developers.

Arrogant

Apple on the other side I feel is more like “we made this product. its awesome. love it!” and then they hype it and present it in a way that make people think it is it super awesome and that Apple invented everything that is good in the world. Yes, I’m a little negative towards Apple. Don’t get me wrong, they have some great products, but they completely brainwash people to think that they are perfect and God of technology. People will swallow everything they throw at them. Heck, it’s a hell of a good marketing strategy which obviously works very well, but I don’t like it! ;p

So why care?

You could give a big /CARE and, well, just don’t give a crap. :p But I think most people do care about these things. How much may vary but I most do. Do you? I do for the same reasons I use Linux. One of them is principal. Others is that I like to have freedom to choose and not having one man telling me what to think and like. My last tweet encapsulates the essence of how I perceive these two companies (at this moment at least).

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate Apple. I just don’t love and buy everything they say or do (or sell). I’m actually going to buy a MacBook soon. Yeah, the irony. I know.

You may not feel this way at all. What do you think about it? Feel free to express yourself in the comments.

I googled all over the place. Read blogs, wikis, the Zend Referance guide, stackoverflow questions and forums. They all say to do the same thing: Put this in your layout: $this->jQuery();

and this:

$view = new ZendView(); $view->addHelperPath('ZendX/JQuery/View/Helper', 'ZendXJQueryViewHelper'); $viewRenderer = new ZendControllerActionHelperViewRenderer(); $viewRenderer->setView($view); ZendControllerAction_HelperBroker::addHelper($viewRenderer);

in the bootstrap.php.

The problem is that it work on the views where I use jQuery, but on the others I get a long error message. Here, share the pain with me:

“Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘ZendLoaderPluginLoaderException’ with message ‘Plugin by name ‘JQuery’ was not found in the registry; used paths: ZendViewHelper: Zend/View/Helper/:./views/helpers/’ in /opt/lampp/htdocs/mjfregistration/library/Zend/Loader/PluginLoader.php:412 Stack trace: #0 /opt/lampp/htdocs/mjfregistration/library/Zend/View/Abstract.php(1170): ZendLoaderPluginLoader->load(‘JQuery’) #1 /opt/lampp/htdocs/mjfregistration/library/Zend/View/Abstract.php(610): ZendViewAbstract->getPlugin(‘helper’, ‘jQuery’) #2 /opt/lampp/htdocs/mjfregistration/library/Zend/View/Abstract.php(336): ZendViewAbstract->getHelper(‘jQuery’) #3 [internal function]: ZendView_Abstract->__call(‘jQuery’, Array) #4 /opt/lampp/htdocs/mjfregistration/application/layouts/scripts/layout.phtml(8): Zend_View->jQuery() #5 /opt/lampp/htdocs/mjfregistration/library/Zend/View.php(108): include(‘/opt/lampp/htdo…’) #6 /opt/lampp/htdocs/mjfregistration/library/Zend/View/Abstract.php(880): Zend_View->_run(‘/opt/lampp/htdo…’) #7 /opt/l in /opt/lampp/htdocs/mjfregistration/library/Zend/Loader/PluginLoader.php on line 412″

So finally I find this video and in it the code that actually works

$this->bootstrap("layout"); $layout = $this->getResource("layout"); $view = $layout->getView(); ZendX_JQuery::enableView($view);

I’m not sure why the thing that every other tutorial and blog says to do didn’t work, but this did, so at this point I’m happy:D

EDIT: Edited the theme a little and removed some stuff. Now the theme is a little faster and usable.

EDIT2: And then a beautiful word popped into my head. Cache. So installed some cache plugins. I also disabled Twitter tools again . It very clearly slows the page down.

I have allways thought that people needed to write down what they had done to fix things was a little wierd. Why couldn’t they just remember it? But after other starting to use Arch Linux and asking me how I did different things and fixes I realize that I should have made some memos for later use (now). I probably going to start posting these kinds of post more regularly, at least whenever do some fixes thats forth remembering, but lets get back to the original intent of the post.

So why would I need compositing at all? Well, the whole thing is mostly base upon the fact that I use gnome Do a lot and with compositing it could look cooler and do a some cooler stuff like transparency and docking, basically cool stuff. This is gnome do without compositing and this is gnome do with compositing. Compositing will also make it possible to have some shadows, transparency and other eye-candy stuff. I had thought about using compiz but I have a nice setup with metacity and compiz uses a lot of resources on stuff I don’t need, plus some things I need to fix to get to work, which I don’t bother.

So I did some research and found that it was indeed possible to do compositing in metacity. To make a potentially long post a little shorter I found a program that manages compositing for metacity. It is called xcompmgr and is a commandline program, there is a graphical front-end (gcompmgr) but I could not get it to work. the command xcompmgr -cCfF -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.55 -D6 & enables the compositing and configures the shadows nicely. The command is found on the previously linked wiki page for xcompmgr. Xcompmgr is found in AUR on Arch Linux.

So now I got compositing without having to use compiz. If you like the whole wobbling windows, animations and rotating desktop, compiz is what you need. But if you are looking compositing for a spesific thing (like gnome do) of just what to have a little sleeker desktop without having to use compiz, xcompmgr is the way to go. It supposedly works for other windows managers as well, not only metacity.

Resources: Enable Metacity Compositing in GNOME 2.22 Gcompmgr: Graphical front end for Xcompmgr Composite Window Manager Xcompmgr on Arch Wiki

I tried to have /home on another volume, but php (or suphp spesific) got very much slower so it is not an option untill I figure it out. Which till this point I still haven’t so I had to find something else and it was this great post by Eric Hammond!

It showes you how to create a larger volume, how to replace the old volume and how to expand the filesystem. I have made the commands in Eric’s post into a script I can run every time I need more space on my server. It requires the ec2 tools to be set up on the computer. It will also take down the server for a few minuets, but I just have to live with that for now.

If anyone have a fix for my PHP problems when I move /home to another volume please let me know! Here is a link to the script. All glory to Eric that has made 90% of the code.

Det har skjedd mye rart dette året. Man har lært nye ting, vært glade og lei oss, blitt en smule klokere, heller varierende hvor mye for hver enkelt, men like mye gamlere har vi nå alle blitt. Det får være en trøst for en som akkurat har fylt 20 og begynner å føle at årene fly forbi. Jeg har nå ikke begynt å føle meg gammel enda, det hadde jo vært heller merkelig, men det er noe med det å passere 20. Man har liksom siden man fylte 18 vært på vei ut av ungdomens rekker og mer inn hos de som kaller seg voksene og selv om man har mange år igjen som “ung og sprek” er det på en måte en markering når man blir 20. Jeg har en jeg vil kalle onkel som alltid har sagt om meg og mine søsk Tenårene er slutt, som kanskje kan være litt vemodig, men også begynnelsen på resten av livet.

Kanskje noen fikk denne følelsen da de ble 18, men for meg så var det å bli 18 ikke så spesielt i på den måten. Som sagt så føler jeg meg ikke gammel på noen måte, men noe føler jeg. Noe er forbi og noe ligger forran. Heldigvis så er det “noe” som ligger forran ennå mye større en det som ligger bak.

Have a very geeky need to use #linux again. I can feel it calling. I blame #hack5 Reminding me how great it is! #

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