Tue, 20 Sep 2005
IIS-Resources -- Printer Friendly GreaseMonkey Script
I've got the first version of the
IIS-Resources Printer Friendly Articles GreaseMonkey script written and
uploaded. It takes you to the correct print page, minus the adverts, but
it's currently got a problem in that the onload handler kicks up a print
dialogue (on Windows at least). If anyone has any ideas how to stop it
doing this please let me know.
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Posted: 2005/09/20 23:29 | /tools/online/greasemonkey | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
TheRegister Printer Friendly Articles -- Fixed
I noticed a bug in my
TheRegister Printer Friendly Articles Greasemonkey plugin a couple of
days ago. The odd thing was the bug was a major one that I never saw based
upon my browsing habits.
I no longer read TheReg, I'm subscribed to its RSS feed instead. I only bother opening the stories I'm interested in. While this saves me time it also means I never go to its front page. Which was the problem. The old version of the plugin tried to convert the very front page in to a printer friendly version as well. Which broke. I've put a fix in now to avoid it doing that to the top level but the odd thing was, due to the amount of pages I read via RSS I never noticed it...
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Posted: 2005/09/20 22:52 | /tools/online/greasemonkey | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Kim Polese on SpikeSource
Over at IT Conversations is a recording of Kim Polese's
OSCON 2005 keynote. Better known to many people as the public face of
Marimba, the push technology that was shoved away, her new employers seem a
lot more interesting. The basic idea is to test and certify stacks of
software, seemingly from the kernel up, and then presumably get paid to add
desired items to the testing.
It might just be me but this sounds fascinating. Pulling together and integrating all the layers in each stack, and making the whole thing measurable, reproducible and automated is one of those technical challenges that just seems too much fun to get paid to do. It also requires a blend of sysadmin and developer skills that'd keep things interesting.
The recording's a short one and Polese is a great speaker so if you've got twenty minutes it's worth listening to what she's got to say. The business model might not make them millionaires but the work is interesting and could be very beneficial to OpenSource in general. If only they had more useful information on their site...
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Posted: 2005/09/20 20:48 | /misctech | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Planet GLLUG - Sort of Working
I'm involved in the GLLUG user group. One of the
ideas that came up recently (it was actually discussed on a non-
GLLUG list!) was about starting a "Planet". A Planet is a collection of
posts from different blogs (pulled together from different feeds) and put
on a single page (also available via different feed formats...). And now we
have one; behold Planet GLLUG.
The initial release is a trial in a number of ways. Firstly I don't know much about the software. Secondly I don't know if people will want to read it, and if so do they want everything or just the tech content?
Some of the things I have noticed from the initial play is that it doesn't seem to deal with certain values (I think it hates "smart quotes"), it brings a whole RSS 0.91 feed in at once, putting each entry as 'now' and it has a very strange release structure where you have to pull versions out of arch. A program that has some of the worst, and most verbose, command line options I've ever seen! While the planet is now up expect it to undergo changes for the next couple of days until I like the way it's working.
If you're involved in GLLUG, and by that I mean you post on the lists or attend the meetings, and want to get added drop me a note to my gmail account or the one I post to GLLUG with.
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Posted: 2005/09/20 20:36 | /geekstuff | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Colds -- I'm Against Them
Over the last week or so I've been suffering from a cold that just won't
shake loose. It started with headaches, which stopped me from reading or
using a monitor, and has reduced back to the point where I sound funny
(yes, more than usual...) and have a sore throat. The weird thing is that
it seems to have screwed up my sleep patterns. I'm going to bed early,
waking up for a couple of hours and then drifting back off. And then
panicing to get to work on time.
One of the side effects of this is the mass of unread emails and blogs that have been steadily piling up. Today I did something very relaxing and nuked almost all of them. All my mailing lists and a chunk of the less important conversations, any blog entry over three hours old and my gmail accounts are now all (almost) clear. It's nice to be back at the starting post every now and again.
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Posted: 2005/09/20 20:23 | /nottech | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
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