Month: January 2014
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WordPress: is there a “Publish+Close” button?
I would very much appreciate this, as I would really like to close an article w/o having to wait, until the entire publishing procedure in my browser tab has finally completed. Of course, this only applies to “successful completion”.
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a VirtualBox WinXP VM (on a MacBook Pro) doing a “Microsoft Update” for ever
No idea, why it’s taking that long.
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O’Reilly Media book: Business Matters
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781937434236.do When Bette Frick launched her freelance writing and editing business in 1990, not having completed formal business training meant she would make more than a few mistakes. But not applying MBA models meant that as her company grew, her business model fit her rather than some business-school template. …
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AMACOM books: Idea to Invention
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780814432938.do http://www.amacombooks.org/book.cfm?isbn=9780814432938 Amazon Germany sells the Kindle edition for EUR 7.86, o’Reilly USA sells the e-book for USD 14.95 – that’s a difference, isn’t it?!!
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“Try as I might, I can’t shake the feeling that 2014 is the year we lose the Web.”
http://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/72759474218/we-are-huxleying-ourselves-into-the-full-orwell Cory Doctorow: We are Huxleying ourselves into the full Orwell. Try as I might, I can’t shake the feeling that 2014 is the year we lose the Web. The W3C push for DRM in all browsers is going to ensure that all interfaces built in HTML5 (which will be pretty much everything) will be…
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RoundCubeMail – Free and Open Source Webmail Software
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundcube http://roundcube.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/roundcubemail/
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Is Text the Programmers Silver Bullet?
Will programming ever depart the land of text? I loved this article on the divides between user and programmer cultures, but sharing it brought responses on the values of programmer culture. Every time I wonder publicly about programming interfaces, or … via http://programming.oreilly.com/2014/01/is-text-the-programmers-silver-bullet.html
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I like the “Horde” free web-based groupware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horde_(software) My ISP uses Horde to provide me with webmail access. It supports drag-and-drop for moving e-mail messages from the current folder to another folder. Wow, impressive for a browser / web application! Open questions: how do I get all header lines of an e-mail message displayed? I don’t mean “show me the source!” –…
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just installed and set up Mozilla Thunderbird as e-mail client
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird This morning my webmailer was suddenly set “under maintenance” for the time being, and I was “a little stuck”. I am trying to use Thunderbird for the time being. Maybe I will like it. I don’t want my e-mail client to locally cache any messages, not even the headers of all the mail folders…
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I just looked at the HTML source of a Facebook friend’s “about”
This HTML + Javascript source code is gigantic. You should see, how much you get transferred for so little information. One of the impacts of web 2.0. Would be rather interesting to extract all Facebook friends’ details like birthday into my personal / “private” addressbook.