Month: January 2014
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an article from the New York Times on “The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/health/the-selling-of-attention-deficit-disorder.html https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-/Hyperaktivitätsstörung = ADHS (in German) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_hyperactivity_disorder … … Behind that growth has been drug company marketing that has stretched the image of classic A.D.H.D. to include relatively normal behavior like carelessness and impatience, and has often overstated the pills’ benefits. … … A medical education video sponsored by Shire portrays a physician making a diagnosis of…
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a “maven” is a trusted expert in a particular field, who seeks to pass knowledge on to others
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maven A maven (also mavin) is a trusted expert in a particular field, who seeks to pass knowledge on to others. The word maven comes from Hebrew, and means one who understands, based on an accumulation of knowledge. …
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if saving a file through “tramp” is not successful, ending “PLINK.EXE” may be a solution
PLINK.EXE is part of the PuTTY family, and it’s the utility tramp is communicating through. “Burying” the respective tramp buffer in emacs is another one. Update 2016-02-09: Actually burying the tramp buffer in question is my 1st approach on all platforms (Linux/Mac/Windows), whenever tramp communication seems to be stuck. Afterwards (with a “clean new start”) everything…
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Time Saving Features of Zsh by Gaston Festari
http://www.packtpub.com/article/time-saving-features-of-zsh
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O’Reilly Media book: PHP Cookbook
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920029335.do This cookbook has a wealth of solutions for problems that PHP programmers face regularly. With topics that range from beginner questions to advanced web programming techniques, <i>PHP Cookbook, 3rd Edition</i> contains practical code recipes for anyone who uses this scripting language to generate dynamic web content. Revised for PHP 5.4, this edition includes new…
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O’Reilly Media book: OS X Mavericks: The Missing Manual
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920029069.do With Mavericks, Apple has unleashed the most innovative version of OS X yet—and once again, David Pogue brings his humor and expertise to the …
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my next diary related project: create diary entries from blog article creations
That will go once again into RSS / Atom feeds, syndication, … And what about drafts? They are relevant, too, but obviously they are not yet listed on the resp. blog feeds. Hmm. An SQL query into the MySQL database? Hmm.
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I would really love to get an Emacs diary entry created on outgoing e-mail
For incoming e-mail I already get a diary entry suggestions created by my “procmail log-file to diary” converter, but outgoing e-mail messages are also worth an entry in my diary. Yes, of course, I can always Cc or Bcc myself, but I would still have to … – alright, … – extended my .procmailrc, letting…
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Packt Publishing: Learning Dart
https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/learning-dart In Detail Dart is a new open source programming language for the Web. Developed by Google, Dart is gaining popularity and has a steadily growing community. It is a single language for both client and server that can be used with a wide range of devices, including phones, tablets, laptops, and servers. It encompasses…
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A Tutorial on Using Rsync (back from November 1999)
http://everythinglinux.org/rsync/ Somebody commented on one of my rsync-related articles, and he sent me this link, and I just thought, that tutorial isn’t really that bad, so I post it here.