Category Archives: Technology
I’m Porticus! I’m Porticus!
I have yet to start using the popular package management system Homebrew (brew install postgres), so I was happy to find the simple, graphical Porticus package browser, written by a Richard Laing. Porticus is a Cocoa GUI for the MacPorts … Continue reading
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Using find
When not using ack, my favorite search tool, you can still exclude SVN folders. Here is an example of me looking for a file: $ find . -not \( -name .svn -prune \) -name ‘EosController*’ ./web/models/controllers/EosController.php ./web/models/controllers/EosControllerTest.php This mode of … Continue reading
Contribute: Low-hanging fruit in PEAR
Here is a list of very simple bugs to fix, to make PEAR better: Deprecation bugs for PEAR code. I fixed two. The list was a wee bit shorter when I reloaded its tab. How many of these bugs remain?
Workstyle: Add vendor tests before using new library code
Hello again. Here is a snag-resolving article about a maintenance problem. There should be a thick volume called “Web Maintenance Pearls”, which everyone should be forced to read. Here’s the situation: You want to throw out a dependency. It’s an … Continue reading
Thank you, MacPorts: How to add OpenSSL support to your PHP
Many interesting web APIs require SSL, for instance Google’s GData API. This adds OpenSSL support to your MacPorts-installed PHP, so that you can use the “ssl” transport layer: sudo port install php5-openssl Done. Thanks, jmr_mp in the MacPorts IRC channel, … Continue reading
Malmö tech city
A summer’s rainy morning in Malmö. I’ve just hopped off the morning train from Copenhagen, clutching a crumpled paper that I just finished. I got wind of it through the NoSQL Summer reading club’s Malmö instance. On the way into … Continue reading
Python Markdown extension example
The Python Markdown module, perhaps outdated, but the one that I use, can be extended using plugins. Here is a plugin I needed and built. It adds a user-specified CSS class to the generated P tags. It draws heavily on … Continue reading
Free RFID workshop with Forskningsavdelningen
Forskningsavdelningen decided to have a RFID workshop on Thursday (today 27 August 2009), so please come today and bring your rfid tags and readers. As you may know, RFID is a technology used in transportation cards sucha as the new … Continue reading
Kiswahili Add-on for Firefox
Kiswahili (SW) Language Pack, an add-on for Firefox. A while ago I joined a Tanzanian mailing list called eThinkTank Tanzania, which sports 1200 subscribers. It’s my source of cool East African IT news. I’ll try to republish good stuff here, … Continue reading