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TikiWiki and Oracle
12 June 2006
Read moreWell, TikiWiki claims to support Oracle … great! So I’ll install it, and try it.
(insert comedy failure noise here)
The installation doesn’t work! Mostly because you can only name oracle things with names of less than thirty characters in length, and this product doesn’t respect that when …
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crawlers and spiders
12 June 2006
Read moreIts monday morning, and I’ve just reviewed the suggestions for storing information for the team that I put forward earlier. My boss is going to go with me on DokuWiki but for some reason the lack of database-backend is making him nervous. The search functionality is currently absolutely fine …
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Thoughts of Wikis
09 June 2006
Read moreI’m implementing a new information-keeping system where I work, and trying to find something that will fit in with a number of requirements. Here’s a quick summary of the task and how I’m getting along:
Requirements
- Allow text
- Allow attachments (files and pictures)
- integrate with existing extranet …
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I've got a Google Analyltics account
06 June 2006
Read moreYay! My invite arrived this morning for google analytics. I’ve got this site and one other all hooked up to it and will wait and see how it all turns out. Both sites are very low traffic but that’s OK.
So far the features are good, I needed …
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Textile Knowledge Nuggets
18 May 2006
Read moreI’ve run into some problems formatting an article about markup, which I was writing in textpattern, which uses markup …. you can see where this is going. Well I learned some new tricks!
escaping from textile
To prevent a block from being processed, just use double equals signs around what …
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Apache FOP: formatting objects is fun
17 May 2006
Read moreI’ve been working on a tricky problem at work this week (and last week as well actually, its been really really tricky in fact), we need to be able to output a form in both PDF (Portable Document Format) and PCL (Printer Control Language) output, because our fax system …
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Ringing the (password) changes
27 April 2006
Read moreI have milestones in my working life, I mark time by them. They help me to think quantitively about how much time has passed since a particular point in time or event. Its helpful because it enables me to think clearly about whether a colleague would have been involved in …
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Reading list for developers
13 April 2006
Read morehttp://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000020.html
I came across this a couple of weeks ago, and have been thinking of doing some more “dead wood” technical reading so it has popped up at a good time. Technical books are good value in our house there are two computer …
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Textpattern Resources
15 March 2006
Read moreThis is a central place for all the odds and ends of tips and tricks I’m come across while learning about textpattern.
discussion of sections and categories from jdueck.net
How to list articles in the same category as the current article
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putty function keys in AIX
09 March 2006
Read moreI’m having fun and games with AIX! I have two telnet clients, putty (fantastic client) and KEA!. I’ve been using KEA! successfully but would like to switch to putty, however the function keys didn’t result in the same escape characters being sent as in KEA!.
After a …
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my first shell script
08 March 2006
Read moreI have a new job, which involves working on an AIX box over SSH. It the first time I’ve used command line to do everything I do in a day and its an education – especially as I’m new to korn shell.
Today I wrote my first shell script …
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ruby quiz
02 March 2006
Read moreI was looking around the web today and came across this:
You sign up to the mailing list and they send you a little exercise to do each week – what a great idea! You can only really get to grips with a programming language of any …