Archive for the 'Software Dev' Category

Hebrew Date Plugin Version 0.9 Released

Posted by KosherJava on August 15, 2005 - י"א אב תשס"ה | Tagged as: Software Dev, WordPress

As pointed out in a comment on the Wordpress Hebrew Date Plugin page, there was a PHP function isJewishLeapYear missing from the plugin that caused issues when the month was Adar. I added this to the file and relesed it as version 0.9. I do not have any posts in Adar, so I can’t really [...]

Zmanim Calendar Generator TODO List

Posted by KosherJava on July 27, 2005 - כ"א תמוז תשס"ה | Tagged as: Site News, Software Dev, Zmanim

I slightly updated the Zmanim Calendar Generator to add some user input validation.
Looking at the logs, I noticed that someone generated a calendar with the longitude and latitude of Lakewood, NJ (the default), with just the location label changed to Minneapolis, MN. I don’t know if the user was just testing, or just assumed that [...]

Hebrew Year Conversion

Posted by KosherJava on July 12, 2005 - ו' תמוז תשס"ה | Tagged as: Software Dev, Zmanim

There was a request on the Correspondence page of Remy Landau’s Hebrew Calendar Science and Myths site for a utility that generated “Hebrew Year Number Transliteration”. Since I had already developed the code as part of PhpGedView and the hebrew date plugin, I just ported it to JavaScript as a demo.


Year:
Include Thousands
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Search engine optimization?

Posted by KosherJava on July 11, 2005 - ה' תמוז תשס"ה | Tagged as: Site News, Software Dev

Do a Google search for "javadoc api" and amazingly the API Docs page shows up at number 9 (number 10 if you omit the quotes). I somehow doubt that the tweaks last week had this effect. I guess not too many pages have these words in the URL, title and page content. It’s still [...]

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