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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})$ [...]

Yes there are still traditions…

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

As announced in ‘Murphy and me‘, I bought a new bike. I discovered that choosing a new bike is a lot harder than buying a new computer. Instead of only taking into account price, performance, reliability, silence and looks, you also have to think about weight, targeted use, and much more. Most components are also very [...]

My bike frame breaks. At first I don’t know what’s going on, and I drive the bike for some 6 additional kilometers. I buy a new bike. Five minits after leaving the shop, happily testing the new gears, the chain breaks. I have to return [...]

The book ‘Framework Design Guidelines’ is high on many .NET programmer’s recommended reading lists, so I decided to finally try it out. To me, it scored bad points for its awfully long subtitle (Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries — Microsoft .NET Development Series). We’ll refer to it as FDGCIPRNL as a form [...]

After using Enso for a while, I noticed that it eventually could replace some of my favorite software tools: Firefox bookmark keywords / keyword searches Alt+F2 mini-shell command widget on Linux Launchy on Windows A text replacement tool like Texter I really liked it because it ‘just works’, and has a lot of potential for extensions. In a way, [...]