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rev=canonical (for PHP) 13 Apr 2009 | 06:49 am
The past days people who are concerned about the fitness of the web have been abuzz over the concept of shortening URLs via the rev=”canonical” concept. The idea behind it is that resources on the web...
gpsbabel pain 4 Jan 2009 | 06:27 am
As I wrote back in November, I’ve successfully managed to connect my ancient Garmin GPS device to my Macbook Pro using a Serial-to-USB adapter thing and the gpsbabel tool. “Successfully” is a bit of a...
Hacking Status 1 Dec 2008 | 03:38 am
Below are the results of sitting down today for an hour or so and catching up on some of my code hacking projects. PEAR related: File_DeliciousLibrary: Fixed #14818 and released version 0.1.0. URI_...
Lutz Heilmann 16 Nov 2008 | 03:47 am
[When redoing this site, I decided to not blog about politics. I need to make an exception today because there is a serious issue that needs to be made aware of.] You know, there are some people who ...
Garmin USB devices and OS X 8 Nov 2008 | 11:40 pm
I have one of those Garmin GPS devices (eTrex Vista to be precise) lying around. Ever since I switched to a Mac full-time I have been unable to make any use of it because the cable to connect the eTre...
Climbing Grades Cheat Sheet 29 Oct 2008 | 04:25 am
If you are into this rock climbing thing as much as I am, you have probably noticed that there a gazillion different grading systems for describing the difficulty of climbing routes. People in Europe...
Importing Delicious Library into LibraryThing 27 Oct 2008 | 07:53 am
Today I have started evaluating LibraryThing as a possible (more social and webbish) alternative to Delicious Library. In the course of this I attempted to import my books from Delicious Library into ...
Django settings files for development and production 21 Oct 2008 | 05:27 am
When developing projects with Django, one usually uses at least two deployments of the project: One for developing things and another for the production site. Let’s assume that the development deploy...
Topo for Kelmis Climbing Area 20 Oct 2008 | 08:08 am
There is a tiny climbing area in an abandoned stone pit near Kelmis. It’s right around the corner from Aachen, where yours truly lives, so me and my fellow citizens can be found there sometimes. Unfor...
WordPress 19 Oct 2008 | 11:34 pm
This site is running on WordPress now. For a long time I had nursed my WP prejudices regarding code quality and style. Now that I have dug around in it quite a bit, I don’t feel particularly convince...
