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 [...]
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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})$ [...]
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, [...]
As a companion the the iWoz book, I also read Revoltution in The Valley – The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made. It was not a page-turner like “iWoz”, but just as interesting to read. Just like with the book by Woz, I already knew some of its contents — this time by accidentally [...]
Code debuggen in een droom is lastig. Het gaat niet. Het is onmogelijk. Aaargh! Een bijzondere eigenschap van dromen is dat cijfers en tekst erin veranderen als je even wegkijkt. Bovendien gedragen technische apparten zich zelden naar behoren in de droomwereld. De ervaren dromer leert zulke eigenschappen te herkennen en er gebruik van te maken, om zo tot een lucide [...]