It’s a plugin which add functionality to request visitors authentication before the website can be viewed. It doesn’t use HTTP Authentication, just php and html.
You can choose to use the WordPress authentication functionality to login, or give a password yourself.

Try it out, and give some feedback.

Link to Basic Authentication plugin

Screenshot:

Yesterday I performed a clean install from Ubuntu Lucid Lynx Minimal on my Asrock Ion 330.
I followed this guide like I did last time (for an earlier version of Ubuntu Minimal) but I encountered some problems.

Here’s how I solved them.

In chapter “Updating the computer”, change in the sources.list hardy or intreprid or jaunty by “lucid”.
No problems in “Install sound”.

The real problems came in “Installing the graphical environment”.
When I wanted to install the latest driver for my ION graphics card I always got this error:

ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module ‘nvidia.ko’. This is most likely
because the kernel module was built using the wrong kernel source files.
Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your
kernel; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the
‘kernel-source’ rpm installed. If you know the correct kernel source
files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the
‘–kernel-source-path’ commandline option.

It took me a while before I found this solution:
Make the file (or edit the file if it already exists)  /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common
and add this content:

DISABLED_MODULES=”nv nvidia_new”

Now you should be able to run the installer without problems.

Another small problem was, logging in automatically. In earlier releases of Ubuntu you had to change some commands in /etc/event.d/tty1 (according to the guide mentioned earlier), but in Ubuntu Lucid, the event.d folder doesn’t exist anymore, and you have to put it in /etc/init/ instead.

Good Luck!

Facebook Like-buttons:
The buttons now appear under the user skinbar on all profile pages (blogs, photos, sets, …) from users, groups and brands.
There still is an issue with ajax browsing, but I’ll try to fix that as soon as possible.
Download

Static header:
No remarks here, just download and enjoy!
Download

Downloads:
Like Buttons (netlog6_like_0.2.user.js)
Static Header (netlog6_topbar_0.1.user.js)

Download below. Watch out, it’s still in beta.
One known bug is that the script doesn’t really work together with the ajax photo browsing.

Note, make sure your Netlog profile and the item you’re liking is accessible when not logged-in (otherwise Facebook can’t handle it)

Screenshots:

Tested on Firefox 3.6.3 and Chrome 5.0.375.28 dev
Note: Firefox users need the Greasemonkey plugin!

Enjoy!

Download:
netlog_like.user.js (0.4, beta)

UPDATE:
Newer version available

Thx to Jochen Delabie and Oemebamo for the remarks

The use of the class is fairly simple. Include the class file (don’t forget to add you API-key), make an instance and do your calls.
The class internally uses CURL to do the requests to the server and returns the data as an associative array.
I tried to document the methods enough so it’s easy to use them.

Example:

<!--?php
include('./class.gowalla.php');
$gowalla = new GowallaAPI();
$events	 = $gowalla--->getSpotEvents(846403);
foreach ($events['activity'] as $event)
{ // do stuff }
?&gt;

Feel free to download and comment.

The plugin is called “Vrt Internetradio”, and it basicly plays internet streams from the VRT (Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie).
The VRT  owns several radio stations and they provide streams to listen to them via the internet. I took the opportunity to use those to make a Boxee plugin so we all can play them with our beloved Boxee.

There’s not that much functionality, but I tried to keep the layout simple and tried to give a good user experience (up/down buttons to right controls and such).

Screenshots (click for larger picture) and download link are below , don’t hesitate to comment ¬†and help me improve the plugin.

The main screen:

Info about a particular station and substations to play:

Starting a radiostation:

The options dialog:

The about dialog:

Download here

So I decided to share the things I found. Let’s hope google indexes them well and I’m able to help some fellow developers.

Textbox + SetLabel:
If you have a textbox, it is not possible to change the label via python in an easy way.

mc.GetActiveWindow().GetLabel([id]).SetLabel('text')

and

mc.GetActiveWindow().GetControl([id]).SetLabel('text')

don’t work on a Textbox, and

GetTextbox([id])

doesn’t exist.
Setting the label can be done this way:

xbmc.executebuiltin('Control.SetLabel([id],[text])')

and you’ll have to replace every comma (,) with $COMMA

Onload-tag with a dialog
I’ve experienced some troubles with the onload-tag in windows with type=”dialog”. If you have a normal window, and load a dialog-window in a onclick method with this code, the onload of the dialog won’t work until you close the dialog:

 
<![CDATA[ mc.ActivateWindow(14001) ]]>

The way to solve this is to dump the python code to load the dialog and just do this:

	ActivateWindow(14001)

Python import gives errors:

It took me a while to figure out, but this error:

18:54:51 T:2963869696 M:410439680  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
18:54:51 T:2963869696 M:410439680  NOTICE: Traceback (most recent call last):
18:54:51 T:2963869696 M:410439680  NOTICE:   File "", line 2, in ?
18:54:51 T:2963869696 M:410439680  NOTICE: ImportError
18:54:51 T:2963869696 M:410439680  NOTICE: :
18:54:51 T:2963869696 M:410439680  NOTICE: No module named xxxxxxx
18:54:51 T:2963869696 M:410439680   ERROR: Scriptresult: Error

Was caused by a bad window-id. Boxee window-id’s should be between 14000 and 14099

Close a window with type=”dialog”:
If you have opened a window with type=”dialog”, it isn’t possible to close the window with this code:

CloseWindow(14001)

Instead you have to do this:

Dialog.Close(14001)

You can also add the “force” option (True/False), adding this option will skip all animations.

So here it is. It’s extremely basic, but it does what it was supposed to do, play stubru music.
Download and enjoy!

Download my stubru boxee plugin

Tested on Boxee Beta for OSX and Ubuntu.

With this userscript it is:
Click to install: netlog_topbar_1.1.user.js (latest version)
Click to install: netlog_topbar.user.js (older version)

UPDATE:
Newer version available

Tested in Firefox 3.6 and Chromium 5.0

Update:
A new version is out (v1.1).

Changes:
- In this version the new tabs in People and Logs are visible.
- There’s a Netlog version check. The header isn’t static in v4, only in v5.
- This version also works better with MagicDebug

I’ve been rather busy with my job. Since August ’09 I’m a full time web developer at Netlog NV (in Ghent, Belgium). It’s a very cool job and I’m in an awesome team. I learn from them everyday. New approaches, techniques, …

Also, In November I’ve won a price together with Cliff Ophalvens, my partner at Netlog during my internship (Now also a colleague at Netlog). Our school nominated our work, so we had to go to Brussel to give a presentation about it.
Out of almost 18.000 graduated ‘Bachelors’, our work won in the category Informatics. Worth mentioning, not?

In my spare time I’m currently working on several little projects, which will probably be shared on the site when I finished them.¬†Of course¬†after a whole day of work, I most of the time don’t go right back to my computer screen… So they’re not quite finished yet.
But here’s a little list of stuff I’m working on (not in real detail):

• Boxee plugins (I’ve so much ideas at this moment)
• Netbeans plugins
• Little PHP Framework

So, that’s about it. Hope to see you soon again.