Archive 2/2007

For those of you interested in this kind of stuff. I've set up a small Mercurial repository and a Trac site for my little Ma.gnolia module for Drupal 5.x. Please remember that the code so far is very alpha and therefor there is no real guarantee that it won't change at any time in the future esp. since there are still tons of things missing from it So for only the whole theming stuff looks done to me.

I'm currently in the process of installing Trac on my Dreamhost account and came across the problem, that the server doesn't allow me to work with Aliases and ScriptAliases in .htaccess files. So I had to go back to using symlinks and RewriteRules.

The problem here now seems to be, that if you for example have a dispatch.fcgi in your htdocs, all your URLs will look for example like this: http://domain/path/dispatch.fcgi/wiki.

It's been a little bit quiet here for the last couple of days. This is mostly because of the exam I had today and I needed to learn quite a lot for it. Other factors were Okami for the PS2 and a small module I'm currently writing on which I want to present here

First of all, what is this module all about? It's a tool that will integrate into Drupal's cronjob mechanism, fetch your recent bookmarks from the social bookmarking site Ma.gnolia and post them as new nodes on a Drupal site. A few of the features and limitations are now listed below:

While I was listening to a recent Lullabot Podcast someone meant that TextWrangler has soooo nice multifile string-replacement features. Well, definitely nice

But if you don't have TextWrangler or simply prefer the commandline way of life, this might be quite handy:

perl -p -i.old -e 's/lili/lala/g' test.txt test2.txt

Well, yesterday I (once again?) walked again from del.icio.us and imported all my bookmarks into Ma.gnolia after all the trouble I had with the the del.icio.us API. The exact reasons should be quite obvious from my last post so I won't really elaborate on them here anymore. Just one thing: If you have rules for your service, really only temp. ban people from it when they obviously act against these rules.

Nice! Seems like Gravatar is back from hibernation with a new look and feel and in good old Web 2.0 style a public beta with everything that is part of it (like the not-existing help)

Ok, yesterday I wrote about a story I found about strange Yahoo! customer care treatment. Today I wanted to delete a couple of posts from my del.icio.us account. Because it was quite a bunch of posts (622 or something like that) I wrote a small script to get this job done.

Pfu, if Yahoo! customer care is really that useless as at appears to be in this story on shorty114.net, then I guess it's really just a matter of time before great projects like del.icio.us will lose a bunch of community support.

The feature that you are describing is not available at this time in Yahoo! del.icio.us. Imported bookmarks currently have to be edited individually to make them public.

Yahoo! support mail as quoted on shorty114.net

As a way to cope with stress I tend to start coding random stuff and also to simply mess with stuff I shouldn't. But this time I actually did 2 at least not catastrophical things:

1. Teh return of the gradients on zerokspot.com. I hope you like them
2. I finally got Django to work again on my Dreamhost account.

Yesterday, during the Drupal presentation (Barcamp Kärnten 07) I think it was Maria Putzhuber who asked a question regarding specifically styling links pointing to for example PDF documents by adding a specific class to these links.