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Index of pages filed with the "Open Source" tag (listing records 11 to 20 of 20):
- Windows 2000 Server Has Pissed Me Off for the Last Time
(Date: Tue 31-Aug-2004 | Comments: 4 | Permalink)
I returned to the office after my week's sojourn in Paris only to find that one of my file-servers had died in my absence. It seems our building suffered a direct hit during an electrical storm and, in accordance with Murphy's Law, I had a single server ... (continue reading) - Perl Development Environment
(Date: Tue 17-Aug-2004 | Comments: 10 | Permalink)
"A craftsman is only as good as his tools," claims the familiar adage. Of course, it depends on how you define "good". In the field of computer programming, "good" could refer to the quality of the programmer's code, or it could refer to that same programmer ... (continue reading) - Working with Meteorological Data
(Date: Mon 9-Aug-2004 | Comments: 4 | Permalink)
I am always impressed when I see real-time data on a website. I am even more impressed when such data is used imaginatively. Thus Dunstan Orchard's panorama and weather information have long intrigued me. Out of curiosity, I investigated the possibilities ... (continue reading) - SpellBound with Firefox
(Date: Thu 5-Aug-2004 | Comments: 6 | Permalink)
I recently discovered SpellBound for Firefox via Ryan Brill's "Blogmarks". SpellBound is a port of the spell checker user interface from Mozilla's Composer that enables spell checking in web forms. SpellBound is one of the most useful and well-implemented ... (continue reading) - The Ultimate Comments Handler (Beta)
(Date: Wed 9-Jun-2004 | Comments: 24 | Permalink)
I've listened to your feedback and scratched my own itches. The result is a collection of routines that, for myself at least, represents the ultimate comments handler and I am proud to present it for testing ... (continue reading) - Apache Tricks: Pruning Virtual Hosts with 'Include'
(Date: Fri 21-May-2004 | Comments: 4 | Permalink)
With twenty complicated virtual host configurations, the "httpd.conf" file on one of my servers was becoming unwieldy. Time for a little pruning ... (continue reading) - Bug Tracker Needed
(Date: Thu 13-May-2004 | Comments: 9 | Permalink)
My faithful pen-and-paper bug log is becoming less and less effective each time I take on a new development project. I am looking for suggestions / recommendations for a good bug-tracker application. Basic prequisites for the system are that it must ... (continue reading) - Safari for Windows
(Date: Mon 3-May-2004 | Comments: 20 | Permalink)
Mozilla Firefox is a truly great web browser. However, Firefox is somewhat lacking in the old eye-candy department. Whereas Apple's Safari is absolutely gorgeous. It is with great pleasure then, that I introduce you to Safari on Windows ... (continue reading) - Auto-linking URL's
(Date: Wed 21-Apr-2004 | Comments: 2 | Permalink)
As more and more websites are driven by applications rather than static files, links are becoming increasingly complicated. I have noticed that the REGEX I use for identifying URL's is failing with increasing freqency. So I went in search of a replacement ... (continue reading) - Function: time_since()
(Date: Tue 17-Feb-2004 | Comments: 17 | Permalink)
I have taken Natalie Downe's "time_since" function, recoded it in Perl and made my "Last Modified" time-stamp a little more user-friendly ... (continue reading)
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