Month: August 2016
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creating diary entries from my (little) blog articles
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds#Finding_Your_Feed_URL 1st approach: xmlstarlet with an XPath expression (rss/channel/item/link) + shell wrapper. 2nd approach: XQuery script looping over rss/channel/item (+ shell wrapper). I am glad to upload it to my github area, in case somebody is interested. Update 2016-08-26: By default WordPress creates an RSS feed with just 10 entries. I don’t create my diary entries…
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using TuneIn – the Android apps: (basic) / Pro / Premium
http://TuneIn.com http://help.tunein.com/customer/portal/articles/913969-what-s-the-difference-between-tunein-radio-and-tunein-radio-pro- – “WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TUNEIN RADIO AND TUNEIN RADIO PRO?”: “… TuneIn Radio Pro lets you record what you’re listening to for a one-time price of $9.99 and does not have banner ads. …” (I strongly hope so) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tunein.player TuneIn Radio (basic) (non-ad-free, various annoying categories of ads) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=radiotime.player – TuneIn Radio Pro I tried the Android…
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an afternoon with Rona Kenan – actually (only) with her delightful music
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rona_Kenan https://www.youtube.com/user/RonaKenan https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/rona-kenan/id632158189 https://itunes.apple.com/de/artist/rona-kenan/id632158189 …
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KDE’s Konsole and the “selection” – when did they change their way of dealing with it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konsole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/xterm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_selection I had used xterm for many years before KDE and Konsole showed up. In the X Window environment a few rules were always taken for granted: the (input) focus is always, where the mouse points you select text, and it’s immediately in the copy+paste buffer you can paste text with “Control+Insert” or…
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upgrading my MediaWiki from 1.24.1 via 1.26.3 to 1.27.0
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download My web space provider currently only has PHP 5.4.45. That limits my upgrading to MediaWiki 1.26.3. Next week they are going to upgrade to PHP 5.6.24; then I will upgrade to MediaWiki 1.27.0, as it requires PHP >= 5.5.9.
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reverse engineering costs so much more time than writing “difficult” code
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_engineering I am facing code, that is really hard to read, and I am attempting to give it a little more structure, so that it is trivial to grasp. But that costs time and grief.
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inadvertently made the wrong choice in “horde” (the groupware) – and corrupted my lengthy .procmailrc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horde_(software) So what was my “wrong choice”? I whitelisted the sender of an e-mail. Instead I wanted to “Purge Deleted” – just one line lower than the whitelisting. Luckily enough I was able to recover my precious .procmailrc within just a couple of minutes – but what if a similar accident happens and I am…
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HTML’s element attributes – do they need quotes?
https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.2 https://w3c.github.io/html/introduction.html#a-quick-introduction-to-html
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O’Reilly Media book: CSS: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition (work in progress)
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2015/10/13/csstdg-update/ – several chapters of CSS:DTG-4 already got released as single books / e-books – there are now 2 authors: Eric A. Meyer and Estelle Weyl Eric A. Meyer …: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/52 – Eric A. Meyer – find chapters of CSS:DTG-4 through his home page at O’Reilly https://www.safaribooksonline.com/search/?query=%22Eric%20A.%20Meyer%22&sort=relevance&publishers=O%27Reilly%20Media%2C%20Inc.&highlight=true&is_academic_institution_account=false&extended_publisher_data=true&include_orioles=true&source=user – the new chapters on Safari https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/css/9781491927649/ – “Colors, Backgrounds, and Gradients” … Estelle Weyl …:…