Monthly Archives: May 2007

Allowing dots in WordPress post slugs

I was once again annoyed by the fact that WordPress doesn't allow dots in post slugs. Luckily, this time I hadn't published the post with a botched URL yet. (I don't like changing permalinks because they're meant to be permanent; cool URLs don't change.) A quick googling pointed me to a post in the WordPress support forum with a reference to the Periods in Titles WordPress plugin. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on May 30, 2007, at 00:05 | 1 comment

Jeroen Dekker (photography) on-line

Jeroen Dekker, a friend and photographer, has recently, on May the 5th, put his website on concert photography on-line. (Go check it out! He has some great pictures there.) Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on May 30, 2007, at 00:05 | 5 comments

Drag and drop file upload extension for Firefox

I'm not very fond of file picking dialogs. They're much too squeezy to my taste. I much prefer a full-blown file system browser to pick my files. I feel no need to suffer cute, miniature wannabe file choosers. That's why I was very pleased to come across the dragdropupload extension for Firefox today. I upload files very often, and this extension makes uploading using web forms a little less awkward!

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By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on May 20, 2007, at 21:05 | No comments

Another contributed Readline keyboard shortcut

Last Wednesday, I was given a very nice response with a great tip to my table of Readline keyboard shortcuts by Luca City. Yesterday, Lance Levine gave me another extremely nice response and another great tip: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on May 13, 2007, at 23:05 | No comments

Bypassing smart completion in Bash

Luca Citi, a nice Italian Ubuntu user, just gave me an excellent tip in response to my list of Readline keyboard shortcuts. Modern Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and Gentoo can easily be configured for Bash to use smart completion. With smart completion enabled, instead of just looking among all the available files and directories without discrimination, TAB will be able to more accurately adjust its list of available completions depending on the program for which arguments are being sought. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on May 09, 2007, at 13:05 | 3 comments

Web scraping in Ruby: why I had to use scrAPI instead of WWW::Mechanize and Hpricot

Thursday evening: so, I had written myself a nice little script using Aaron Patterson's WWW::Mechanize and why's Hpricot to extract some data from a popular web-based airport directory. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on May 02, 2007, at 13:05 | 6 comments