Against entropy.
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, for telling me about the existence of this short and neat patch-applying port, so that …
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So I went to a NoSQLSummer meeting yesterday night. Upon entering the deathly empty MINC complex, I thought “startups never sleep?”, but I found most of Neo’s staff in a cosy war-room called “Innovation Lab”. No coffee, but soda bottles. Copies of the paper were spread around the large table. We met. We hung out. …
Tuesday Forsk yesterday, it was awesome. Just great. People were their normal selves, but everyone just had that extra edge of greatness that night. It begun with a minor planning meeting in one corner. Pragmatic. Anna F came by and planned her workshop. StG had worked on his Rbox project, and murmured “Do you want …
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 the office, I saw my FOSS friend T, waiting for a car. Handing him the …
Looking around for etching stuff. People with machines have a lack of taste. Explanation of what I want to do. Make signs, one for each engineer. I admire his technical skill Envious of these machines a Polish website on laminates have pictures. They mention Rowmark (“Great people, great plastic”. Amazing.) Do you have any thoughts …
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The Python Markdown module, perhaps outdated, but the one that I use, can be extended using plugins.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 the examples at the above website. (I also had to read the code.) # the …
ExtJS: The Component manager instance’s all collection does not let you change an ID of a component. Let’s say… you wanted to, anyway. Add this: Ext.ComponentMgr.all.changeKey = function(oldkey, newkey) { var comp = this.map[oldkey]; var index = this.indexOfKey(oldkey); this.keys[index] = newkey; this.map[newkey] = comp; delete this.map[oldkey]; }; Is there anything really wrong with this approach?
Jeri Ellsworth Originally uploaded by Jason "Textfiles" Scott At the Forsk we talked a bit about our women tech heroes. Jeri Ellsworth, see picture, is clearly in my pantheon of heroes. Taught herself everything. Had a DIY racecar career. Then she got into custom-built electronics, and designing chips. Well, she got very good at it. …
So that was the 7th meetup about JavaScript. We learnt stuff about extending Chrome, that WebKit browser. Mark Wubben taught us. Thanks, Mark! You provided much more than a glorified walkthrough of the extant documentation, you gave us insight into how the workflow feels, and how a finished product can look. That went well. When …
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Recently, the word “hacker” has created turmoil where I live. A friend who develops amazing things has written a bit about it. I want to frame his story by this back-and-forth between us: Me: “The Web has enormous reach.” Peter Stuge: “Yes, unfortunately.” In an unthinkable turn of events, this man took up blogging in …