One of the add on features contributed by the community to the snipsnap project was an {html} macro. Here are my notes,
Read more
Decorating Blockquotes
Now I have one of those pretty quote decorations in my quotes on this wiki. This post is deprecated. It should have been marked so when I adopted Nulis. You can read what I said in 2013 by using the Read More button. …
Read more
XSLT
As the discussion on Snipsnap to WordPress implies, I am having another look at using XSLT to convert my old snipsnap dump to WRX. Links man xsltproc tizag’s xslt Tutorial, I like this one. filtering with xslt quackit’s xslt tutorial, not as good as tizag’s, IMHO W3 Schools on XSLT Another tutorial from from edutech…
Read more
delicious linkrolls
Time to revise this page. It was originally created to document the runes on how to use the delicious provided javascript linkroll generator, it then covered the slow and painful death of the service and my attempts to postpone the inevitable. In late 2019, I found my backup copy and posted it to the blog,…
Read more
Snipsnap Themes
Snipsnap offered multiple look and feels and for the advanced CSS coder, offered many opportunities to manage itl. My changes were relatively simple. In fact it might have been Snipsnap that took me to Blue Robot which influenced me a lot.
Read more
EXIF and MacOS X
I have listened to Stop 43, and the British Journal of Photography I have read what Tim Bray has to say and decided I may need to ensure that my picture’s EXIF data is accurate. You can’t give away what you don’t own, and it seems you need to assert ownership of pictures. The way…
Read moreMicrosoft Office Templates
With Office 2010, the location of the “My Templates” folder for Excel is managed using Word’s Options dialogue box, and it seems that you can no longer specify a search path, solely one folder. What Microsoft say at answers.microsoft.com!
Read more
Mac OS, about upgrades
I need to upgrade the Mac. The O/S version is getting a bit long in the tooth. I have V10.5, Leopard, I need to get to 10.6 Snow Leopard. Here are my, now deprecated, notes and links.
Read more
Liferay
Liferay is an open source, free portal server written in Java. 2022 One of the links broke, so I went to their site and checked out the developer page‘ the code is still there. How to They had a Quick Start page which illustrates a 4 step how to get started process. This is the…
Read more
WordPress Vulnerability
Ars Technica report an attack on WordPress sites. Here is a google search, looking for their coverage, and here is the Ars Technica security home page.
Read more
New RSS/XML tools
AS the big boy’s look to enclose our content, the architecture I articulated in Are Blogs losing their influence has been broken, badly. I originally used Friendfeed & mingle as my aggregators but it’s a bit tricky I have documented IFTT on this wiki and Feedly on my blog, they ahve led me to the following…
Read more
iF THIS THEN THAT
The site, “If this then that” offers trigger actions as a web service. It works with recipes and channels. Recipes are the “if this then that” relationship, and channels define the this and that.
Read more
Social Login
I have just installed Social Login on this site, some of the authentication services, not surprisingly require a setup process, most of which I have not done. Created in 2013, but not maintained. …
Read more
Open ID
On the 20th April, I installed Social Login on this Wiki. This involved me registering the sites with http://www.oneall.com/. This points towards open-id, and I have discovered these links, http://openid.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID and this, below which talks about how to run an open id server, since I if not you, am losing trust in the big…
Read more
WordPress plugins
A couple I found or had recommended to me
Read more