/*
* Fall back to a hard coded default thumbnail if a thumbnail doesn't already exist
*/
function custom_filter_get_post_metadata($metadata, $object_id, $meta_key, $single)
{

if(isset($meta_key) && '_thumbnail_id' === $meta_key)
{
//Temporarily remove filter to fetch the real data, since it's not sent as a parameter to this filter
remove_filter('get_post_metadata', 'custom_filter_get_post_metadata', true, 4);

// Get real thumbnail id
$existing_thumbnail = get_post_meta($object_id,'_thumbnail_id',true);

// Set it to a fallback ID if it doesn't already exist
if (empty($existing_thumbnail)) $result = 3372; << CHANGE THIS ID TO A ATTACHMENT ID!!!

// Re-enable the filter
add_filter('get_post_metadata', 'custom_filter_get_post_metadata', true, 4);

if(!empty($result))
return $result;
}

return $metadata;
}
add_filter('get_post_metadata', 'custom_filter_get_post_metadata', true, 4);

But it has been quite hard to pitch the 23(!) year old protocols to suits and art directors.

Enter Grove, a services that combines the best of both worlds:

The morning started a bit earlier than usually but it took exceptional long time to arrive to the office today. Just as I was about to leave home the monitoring alerts started beeping in the phone. Several customer sites suddenly went offline as one of Swedens biggest web hosts, Binero, experienced problems with its SAN causing almost four hours of downtime. When everything finally was up and running I reported to owners of the websites and arrived to KB5 a few minutes after 2 pm.

Slow day at the office trying to upgrade a wordpress plugin to make it comptabile with version 3. Had a strange potato and salomon dinner with Anders Färdigh before he left for some late sunday night adventures.

This is something that I wish I’ve found a few weeks ago…

The jQuery Cycle Plugin is the result of some fine javascript craftsmanship by Mike Alsup (@malsup).

The plugin offer a series of cool, yet easy to use, transition effects for your next web project. It work well both with images and random html!

Check out the demos and be amazed.

Since Verisign’s announced price raise (7%) on October 15:th undoubtly will lead to higher costs for all domain owners this is the perfect oppurtunity to renew your domain portfolio for several years in advance.

Until the end of the month we are also offering hosting dirt cheap: our start plan with 1GB storage is only $1.39 per month!

Login with your customer account (or create a new one) at the store to enjoy these fantastic prices!

when trying to install the freshest version of librtorrent on a vanilla unbutu box  I suddenly got this crazy error:

checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler… no

followed by:

 checking for proper overloaded template function disambiguation… no

configure: error: your compiler does not properly handle overloaded template function disambiguation

Kinda crazy huh? Installing the package ‘g++’ solved the problem.

A few days ago I stumbled over Affrus and it was love at first sight.

Affrus offer stepped execution with breakpoints and a whole bunch of advanced features  that I miss from the well built Borland ide’s back in the DOS-days. The registration cost is almost $100 – but I’m happy to pay that when the evaluation period is over!