GnuWin32 Packages is the official list of GNU tools for the win32 platform. Some of these tools are pure magic. diff rules, and I felt all broken when my Cygwin install broke, because all my settings in diff were perfect there. Now I don’t even have to open the bash commandline, the tools are on …
Category Archives: Technology
No Software Patents!
No Software Patents! is a portal, a portal you should spend five minutes at today. The link above is to a page showcases a fictional webshop (created by The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure) that could be any webshop, and it uses some basic functions that webshops use, such as paying with VISA, and …
Search function with auto-complete “suggest”
The search function at the PHP homepage has got a new functionality: suggesting what it is you’re typing. Like auto-complete. And Google Suggest. > The source code of this feature is released under the PHP License and is available from the PHP CVS server without any support. Nice of them. The script is included at …
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ECMAUnit: Unit testing for JavaScript
Sarissa is a goodie for those of us who wrangle with XML: Sarissa is a cross-browser ECMAScript library for client side XML manipulation, including XML loading from URLs or strings, XSLT transformations, XPath queries and more. Supported: Gecko (Mozilla, Firefox etc), IE, KHTML (Konqueror, Safari). When I started looking at its documentation, I noticed that …
Techie cultural goodness
My Malmö buddy Isak blogs, too. In the tracked-back post here, he tells about Martin Fowler‘s idea of post-modern programming. Mr. Fowler is a computer book author, and he wrote Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, a nice book. It made me find a great list of “refactoring smells”, which is Fowler-speak for indications …
bbPress!
bbPress is the new forum software from the folks who created WordPress. It is bound to be great. On the homepage they make five commitments: 1. Open Source, always and forever 2. Less (code) is more 3. Simplicity is a feature 4. Speed and security are the foundation of any good user experience 5. Put …
Open Directory Project: almost altruistic
The Open Directory Project: The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. Anyone can be an editor of a subcategory of the catalog, making small edits, refusing bad submissions and so on. I noted that the …
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FIGlet – ASCII heaven
“FIGlet is a program for making large letters out of ordinary text”. If you have ever seen .nfo files distributed with cracked games, you have probably seen the “large letters”. In the past these letters were an art form spawned by the limitations of the terminal, and with the BBS’es it got big, cool and …
WP plugin: Auto Shutoff Comments
Auto Shutoff Comments lets you close the comments submission after X days. It is now activated here at the site, mostly for spam reasons.
Plugin added: PHPizer
Ah! New stuff is so good to me. The Phpizer plugin for WordPress puts some atmosphere in posted PHP code. Now I might even post code examples on the site. [php] phpinfo(); [/php] Try that at home, kids. Be sure to have an adult at hand to debug it.