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upgrading my MediaWiki from 1.24.1 via 1.26.3 to 1.27.0

Aug 18, 2016

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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.

reverse engineering costs so much more time than writing “difficult” code

Aug 17, 2016

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johayek

in software development

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.

inadvertently made the wrong choice in “horde” (the groupware) – and corrupted my lengthy .procmailrc

Aug 17, 2016

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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…

HTML’s element attributes – do they need quotes?

Aug 16, 2016

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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

O’Reilly Media book: CSS: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition (work in progress)

Aug 15, 2016

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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 …:…

retrieving my favourite personal scripts from my GitHub area

Aug 14, 2016

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johayek

in Git SCM

https://github.com/JochenHayek/misc $ curl –location –remote-name https://github.com/JochenHayek/misc/raw/master/using_timestamps_in_filenames/touch_with_filename.sh $ wget –no-check-certificate https://github.com/JochenHayek/misc/raw/master/using_timestamps_in_filenames/touch_with_filename.sh No chance to download with “the right timestamp”. I usually prefer accessing my files at my NAS at home, but sometimes there is no SOCKS proxy available or retrieving the files from my GitHub area is a few steps closer.

XML-XSH2 – an XML Editing Shell implemented in Perl

Aug 14, 2016

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https://metacpan.org/release/XML-XSH2 https://metacpan.org/source/CHOROBA/XML-XSH2-2.1.25/README – you can find the latest version through the previous link

William Nagel: “Subversion Version Control: Using the Subversion Version Control System in Development Projects”

Aug 12, 2016

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http://www.informit.com/store/subversion-version-control-using-the-subversion-version-9780131855182 Prentice Hall does not sell the book any longer, but they provide the e-book (PDF) for free download.