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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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Yesterday the first speaker interviews for FOSDEM 2008 were released. Take a look at them here: fosdem.org/2008/first-speaker-interviews.

FOSDEM 2008 is getting in shape (in sharp contrast to yours truly), and it’s time to think about a developer room and/or booth if your project could use one. Go look at the call for devrooms at the spiffy new FOSDEM 2008 website. Speaker interviews for this edition are planned, but not yet available.