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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]