Archive for the 'English' Category

Learning git

Friday, May 4th, 2012

At work we mainly use Subversion for version control. For what it does, it works fairly well. But everyone else has been using git for ages (GitHub is hugely popular, and projects like Drupal have also made the switch). Added to that: the few times I’ve tried branching in SVN, the ensuing merges ruined [...]

URL rewrites

Saturday, March 19th, 2011

Apache URL rewriting can be tricky sometimes (beware spaces!), and I have a nasty habit of forgetting my old tricks. So here goes: Make a file available without HTML extension: RewriteRule ^article$ article.html [nocase] Redirect to another path: RewriteRule ^nice-article$ /articles/nice-one [nocase,redirect=permanent,last] Remember to start the redirect path with a slash! Redirect users ‘guessing’ an archive URL to the correct URL: RewriteRule ^(20\d{2})$ [...]

Tradition

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Yes there are still traditions…

Nucleus2drupal conversion

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Rading about Drupal migrate.module made me think back to somewhere in 2008. There I was, searching a way to migrate content from Nucleus (version 3.3x) to Drupal 6. Some ‘migrate’, ‘import’ or ‘xxx2drupal’ modules for Drupal could be found, but none of them were suitable for Nucleus source data. It also seemed like some HTML [...]

Little big bag

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Have you seen the little big bag in the shop? Noticed the URL http://littlebigbag.free.fr/? I did, and became curious. It seemed worth the try, and after a couple of times of usage it turns out to be a nice shopping bag. It can store a lot of volume (making it look very funny) and quite [...]

Flexifilter wiki URL for Drupal

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

The Flexifilter module has a MediaWiki input format that transforms [links] into clickable hyperlinks, with or withouth [AnAlternative|name]. However, this input format is very complex and not very flexible. An existing ‘link component’ patch to flexifilter is much more compact and easier to configure. In my view, that’s the nice thing about flexifilters: you don’t need to dabble [...]

Use Small caps please

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Even though it’s officially known that ALL-CAPS ROT THE BRAIN, some people still use them. Dear writers, please reconsider. And if you must, Please use small caps. They are lighter on the eye, and properly distinguish between UPPERCASE and lowercase Letters. Since it is a layout trick, you are still free to revert to normal casing [...]

Interesting conversation

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

How he appeared in my contact list I don’t know, but I’m sure having some interesting conversations with this koli0900 chap: koli900: ku je mor shtet me: broa dog flimpets koli0900: fol shqip mor kar me: alli harvod dobeng koli0900: ma ha karin me: bollem pratka ovordeks koli0900: pidhi satam

Going to…

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

I’ll be attending FOSDEM this weekend (albeit not the full weekend). Unlike previous editions I was hardly involved in the speaker interviews — the very capable K.V. handled those this year. I did contribute to the questions in Brion Vibber’s interview though. The organizers are once again making a nice leap in quality. Case in [...]

bcm4318 on Ubuntu

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Ubuntu users, if you need to get wifi up and running for a bcm4318 wireless-G chip and NdisWrapping the supplied Windows driver does not do the trick, then get your tips here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Feisty_No-Fluff When the network is up and running, use it to send a message to Broadcom to demand some hardware specs for the b43 driver [...]