Month: June 2010
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TextMate style “snippets” for Emacs
An article talking about YASnippet. So maybe after having learnt, how powerful TextMate is, I will reconvert back to Emacs, using YASnippet “of course”. A few words on snippets …
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copying from from OS X to a Samba server fails, using Cyberduck instead
The operation can’t be completed, because you don’t have permission to access some of the items. Did you come across that error message before? I did, more than once. Today I started using Cyberduck to copy over to the other side, but now as SFTP server. That’s almost as nice, at least it looks like…
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more on web harvesting
Data Extraction for Web 2.0: Screen Scraping in Ruby/Rails, Episode 1 http://scrubyt.org (ruby) HPricot.com : “a swift, liberal HTML parser with a fantastic library” (ruby) http://brightplanet.com : “Pioneers in Harvesting the Deep Web” … Update 2010-06-05/06: One night later I am still very impressed by scrubyt, and I rather want to try it on a…
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web harvesting and my toolkit JHwis
I implemented a toolkit years ago, that I call JHwis. Now and then I think, I should have do more advertising for it. I have been using software created by that toolkit for downloading bank account statements and other stuff for years now. I would like to prove you, it’s also very well suited for…
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phonebook on Facebook
Did you know, you have a phonebook on Facebook? Now you do. But nowadays more and more Facebook friends remove their phone numbers from their Facebook profile.
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fictiticious world cup letter to the wife
Dear Sweetheart, Between 11 June and 11 July 2010, you should read the sports section of the newspaper so that you are aware of what is going on regarding the South African World Cup, and that way you will be able to join in the conversations. If you fail to do this, then you will…
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ruby and curly braces around statements
“In memory” of perl, ruby allows curly braces in “almost every place”, where perl allows it. But it does not allow it for function resp. method definitions, and not for if/elsif/else. There it enforces the keyword “end”. Correct me, if I’m wrong.