Month: July 2010
-
DocBook XSL, the book – where can I download the samples from?
I have a copy of that book (paper so far), and I am tempted to use certain smples. Other publishers supply you with TAR balls, that you can download from their web-sites, so that you can play with the samples. I didn’t find that mentioned in that book, but to be honest with you: I…
-
Google Chrome, my 2nd experiences
On openSUSE-11.2 Google Chrome 5.0.375.99 beta makes my X-Windows freeze after running for a while. If I “killall chrome“, this drags my X display down, only restarting the XDM or so helps. On Snow Leopard Google Chrome 5.0.375.99 runs quite nicely. Yes, it’s fast as lightning, but of course, there’s not adblocker, and there is no…
-
DocBook XSL, the book – incorrect IRC channel
DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide – 4th Edition, Chapter 1. Introduction, Online resources for finding solutions to problems (the paper book and the online version as well) says, that the IRC channel of DocBook would be at irc://irc.openprojects.net#docbook, but it actually is at irc://irc.freenode.net#docbook. http://www.docbook.org/help had the right information. This is not on their Errata…
-
NoScript, XSS risks, flattr, Firefox
I really loved to use NoScript, the plugin for Firefox. But after I decorated my blogs with these flattr buttons, I started having to much hassle. Adding an exception rule didn’t lead to the expected result. I have got no further time to fix that, I switched of NoScript. R.I.P. I really felt a lot…
-
unit tests for my procmailrc
I love adding procmail rules, as getting my incoming e-mail almost perfectly sorted eases my life in such a tremendous way – but sometimes that really frightens me. I just thought, if I ever get around “to it”, I will write unit tests for my procmailrc.
-
Catalyst based CMSs
According to cms.wikia.com/wiki/Impl these are the current Catalyst (so esp. implemented in perl) based CMSs: EasyCMS2 Website in a box Can anybody help me selecting “the right one”? O, what do I want to use it for? I got a few web-sites, most of them more or less plain text (HTML!), generated from DocBook, and…
-
Polish court to decide on Brodsky
… Polish authorities may deport alleged Israeli spy Uri Brodsky to Germany this week. … The Brodsky affair has caused friction with two of Israel’s most important European partners. According to media reports in Germany, Israel has turned the diplomatic screws on Poland and Germany to prevent an extradition of Brodsky to Germany.A Polish diplomat…
-
App::perlbrew – Manage perl installations in your $HOME or wherever you want
Prerequisites: $ zypper install patch $ zypper install gcc … Caveat: yes, “perlbrew install” occasionally and too often needs “–force” and even “–notest“, don’t be too surprised! my “5.14.2” and also my “5.16.1” needed it … Main links: www.perlbrew.pl $ perlbrew $ perlbrew help http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?App::perlbrew – this one tells you, how to upgrade perlbrew: $ export PERLBREW_ROOT=/opt/perlbrew $ curl…
-
ruby, gsub, and backslash characters within the replacement
My ruby problem of the day: I have e-mail addresses, and I want to use them within procmail rules. Therefore certain characters like the dot character and also the “+” need escaping. It took me an endless while, like certain things always take an endless while on unknown grounds. I started with single quotes just…