Author: Rowan Rodrik

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AJAX comment preview for WordPress

Yesterday night, after mucking around with my Subversion repo for this blog for way too long, I finally stopped annoying the designer of my new theme and uploaded it, one and a half year after the last major redesign. Anyway, while implementing the new design for the comment list , I decided it was time to have comment previews. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on January 30, 2010, at 03:01 | No comments

First steps with Subversion’s new merge tracking

A while ago we succeeded in upgrading the Debian server where I keep many of my SVN repositories. (The server was running on “testing”, but we hadn't dared to upgrade it for a long time until it came time to make it “stable” again with Lenny.) On of the upgraded packages in Lenny is Subversion, now at 1.5.1, which means that I can finally start using subversions new merge tracking features. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on January 30, 2010, at 02:01 | 7 comments

HP LaserJet 6P under Ubuntu

Because Arnold Pilon is migrating his workplace to Apple, I could get his old PC and peripherals for free. Among its peripherals was an old HP LaserJet 6P, still perfectly working. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on January 30, 2010, at 01:01 | 5 comments

Replacing the full contents of a Subversion working (sub)dir

The annoyances that I suffered earlier today during the upgrade of a WordPress plugin made me turn to my favorite text-editor to create a simple script, svn-replace-dir: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on January 14, 2010, at 00:01 | No comments

Create DVDs from any random movie format on Windows

Ewald wanted to be able to create DVDs from the Quicktime movies exported by his digital camera. As a result of being away from my familiar Linux tools, I had to find something that´d work on Windows XP. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on December 30, 2009, at 14:12 | No comments

Dumping a bunch of MP3s as WAV files

I just used the following command for converting a directory with a bunch of MP3s to WAV. Does someone know a command that is shorter? I find mine a bit convoluted to say the least. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on December 06, 2009, at 22:12 | 1 comment

XTerm configuration

I just created a gist for my XTerm configuration (separated from the rest of my X resources). Here's a snapshot of the current version: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on November 18, 2009, at 16:11 | 5 comments

Old Window Maker screenshot from April 2004

While cleaning up old images, I came across a screenshot of an old Window Maker configuration that I ran in 2004. It looks a bit different from my current configuration, but not that different, which just goes to say how little Window Maker has changed in the last five years. The main difference I see in terms of Window Maker capabilities is that Window Maker now has font anti-aliasing support. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on November 10, 2009, at 13:11 | No comments

Modern self-hosted, open-source web statistics software

I've been using Google Analytics for most of my websites for quite some time. Philosophically, I'd prefer a self-hosted solution though. In the past I've used Webalizer and I still use awstats for my ad-hoc, static website, but these programs are a bit primitive and limited compared to Analytics. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on October 23, 2009, at 16:10 | 1 comment

VIM insert mode shortcuts

A few months back, I stumbled upon a blog post with some interesting VIM shortcuts for within insert mode. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on October 09, 2009, at 23:10 | 1 comment