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The Beauty of Vim
20 June 2006
Read moreI work with vim and its fabulous. Although I’ve been a casual linux shell user for some years, I’ve never had to get to grips with vim as my main editor which I’m using eight hours a day until now. And I love it.
Cheat Sheets
Its …
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Opera's Favourite Icon
14 June 2006
Read moreI’ve been getting wound up recently by Opera spamming my apache logs with errors about missing favicon.ico files. So here’s some instructions for removing this annoying default behaviour:
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crawlers and spiders - take two
13 June 2006
Read moreI made some progress with getting Xapian set up, but not to the point where I was all ready to go. I’m not all that familiar with C++ and somehow I lost the will to live somewhere along the way this afternoon.
PHPDig
I should mention PHPDig here because …
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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