Archive for July, 2006

links for 2006-07-18

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

Netconcepts : Solving Visibility Problems
not much solution here, just a ’splanation
(tags: SEO work)

Masquerading Your Browser
general.useragent.override - a about:config entry that allows you to send a custom UA string
(tags: FireFox reference)

links for 2006-07-14

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Toolkit version format - MDC
for atx 0.65b
(tags: FireFox extensions install rdf atx)

Install Manifests - MDC
info about install.rdf - also some info about update.rdf
(tags: install rdf FireFox extensions)

links for 2006-07-13

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

MySQL Tuning Advice
(tags: mysql reference)

WordPress Widget whacking

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

A little hack for the WordPress Widgets plugin sidebar code, and my first WordPress widget; gapingvoid for WordPress, available here.

Setting up Autonumbering in Peoplesoft

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

Mostly for my own benefit, but perhaps someone else might find this useful…
In PeopleCode there’s a built in mechanism for autonumbering records. Using the built in assign_auto_number function you can grab the next number from a table in the Peoplesoft db (in MS SQL Server it’s called PS_AUTO_NUM_TBL; don’t know if that’s different on […]

links for 2006-07-11

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

Canvas for Wordpress
whassthis?
(tags: blogging wordpress tool)

links for 2006-07-09

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

Linux Tips - IO Redirection
(tags: linux reference IO scripting)

links for 2006-07-08

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

Search man pages
general search - good for ubuntu installs too, since it’s based on Debian.
(tags: linux Tools reference linux_maint_tools)

Linux Administrator’s Manual VMSTAT(8)
(tags: linux_maint_tools)

User Contributed Perl Documentation MTOP(1)
(tags: linux_maint_tools)

Linux User’s Manual UPTIME(1)
(tags: linux_maint_tools)

links for 2006-07-06

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

Old English Computer Glossary
I particularly like the feminine OE word from crash: gebræc
(tags: reference fun technology)

[CSpace;] public release
I particularly like the decentralized part. If I cared a lot about security in an IM, I’d use Skype for it
(tags: IM messenger privacy security software OpenSource)

paste.lisp.org pastebin
very cool pastbot add on - with RSS feeds and […]

Website Flags

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

From Google Blogscoped:

W3.org, makers of all web standards, created a highly accessible design on a beloved Netscape 3 gray background. The flag is still a draft and comes with an audio version for the sight-impaired.
The flag for the RIAA is pretty good, too.