Martin Fowler’s Website is teaching about the do’s and don’ts of handling flag arguments
A flag argument is a kind of function argument that tells the function to carry out a different operation depending on its value. Let’s imagine we want to make booking for a concert. There are two ways to do this: regular and premium .
If you are interested in improving your coding skills read the whole article.
If your are citing books and you are sick of creating the BibTex data for yourself: Cheer up, there is a easy way to get the data created. You just have to get the ISBN Number of the book (easiest by finding the book on wikipedia). Then you use the OttoBib webservice. Just replace the ISBN number in this example
Calling this URL gives you
@Book{marx2008capital,
author = {Marx, Karl},
title = {Capital : an abridged edition},
publisher = {Oxford University Press},
year = {2008},
address = {Oxford New York},
isbn = {9780199535705}
}
Easy and a real life saver….
Maybe you are one of the people who is using GoogleReader not because you like Google that much, but because you are not aware of a nice online alternative.
organize and read your feeds, set priorities, filter your feeds and items and fetch news, images and photos in a really easy way
simple ⋅ free ⋅ open source
You can install rsslounge on your own server. You just need apache/php/mysql.
Have you ever asked yourself: Where the $&”(% is the RSS Feed Icon in Firefox 4?” I did.
By default the new RSS web feeds subscription button is not visible. To add this to the toolbar ( or navigation tool-bar as it is called in Firefox 4 ) just right-click on the toolbar and select customize. In the customize tool bar window that appears, click and drag the “Subscribe” icon to the desired location. Done.
More Details can be found on technophilia.madharasan.com
If you have a wordpress installation in you own webspace, you may want to automatically publish your blog posting on twitter. You can do this with the Twitter Tools for WordPress.
Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.
Notes about the installation and the configuration can be found on the plugin homepage.
Something which is not mentioned: You have to have the php curl library installed to use the plugin. The library was easily installed on my debian root server.
aptitude install php5-curl
Blogilo is a Free/Open Source Blogging client, focused on simplicity and usability.
It is a KDE program, which allows you to create a blog posting offline and submit it to your blog. Using a normal client instead of a browser can be more convenient.
I’m using wordpress with a handfull of a blogs and discovered a problem with blogilo: It only allows me to submit postings to my primary wordpress blog. For everyone who has the same problem, there is an easy solution
BTW, To get out of this problem, You can set http://wordpress.com as your blog url and try! It will fetch all of your blogs, and you can select which one you want!
If you find youself struggeling with exporting images from PDFs, don’t give up, there is a solution
… if you’re in my situation (no desire to use Adobe’s bloat) or you just need a small handy command line tool for linux (or other “unixes”): try pdfimages. It’s part of the xpdf package, which is probably available for all major linux distributions.
Usage is very straightforward:
pdfimages -j foo.pdf bar
You can read the rest of the article on Stefaan Lippens Blog.
Some time ago I had the problem to search files with a given string in lots and lots of directories with lots and lots of files. Finally I used this command to show me every file in a given directory (plus sub-directories) which contains the search-string.
find . -name "*.php" -print | xargs grep "searchstring"
Wut im Bauch
