- November, 2004
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A gathering of geeks
Yesterday I attended a meeting of a few fellow-geeks. The points that make a geek gathering different from normal people's gatherings are
- The idea of the meeting was conceived on an IRC channel
- More time was spent on planning what to do, than the time spent on actually doing
- People kept referring to each other by their IRC nicks
- Pictures were taken using a mobile camera
- After the geeks had a shot of beer/vodka, they started debatng the OO capabilities in Python, history of python, squeak and other obscure topics.
- And of course, how can I forget the debate on which CMS rules - mambo/Drupal or Plone
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Firefox 1.0
Firefox 1.0 got released yesterday. Yay !! If you have not downloaded it as yet, get it and reclaim the web. Google has put up a firefox on their search too.
. Surprisingly BBC is covering the launch too. Officially, Firefox is not "just for geeks " anymore. Welcome abroad unwashed masses. Here is the list of newspapaers covering firefox launch.
While reading through the talkback pages at mozila, I saw that most people were having trouble getting Firefox from their local mirrors (which I guess had not gotten updated) or in accessing the Mozilla's website. Well, I took the easy route and just used the torrent to download my favourite browser. It was the first time I used torrent, and i must add I was amazed at how easy the whole process. Bittornado put a nice GUI and a easy to understand interface to the whole process.
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There is a Bloglines Web Services (BWS) . Never knew about it
. In another news, I discovered a nice skin for my wiki. \0/ One of my friends has launched a new blog devoted to books, music and movies. If you are a geek who enjoys reading and movies, have a look or volunteer to participate in the effort
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My wiki
I have been experimenting with a few wikis for my site. A great place to look for your wiki needs is the Wiki Engines page on the WikiWik (which incidentally was the first wiki). I have settled for Pmwiki, which you can see here. My reasons for choosing the Pmwiki are
- Written in PHP and released under GPL
- Does not need a database backend to run
- Easy to understand documentation
- Customizations are in a separate configuration file
- InterMap capabilities to provide links to other WikiWikiWeb systems
- Ability to organize pages into WikiGroups, with headers and access controls shared among all pages in the group
Defined tags for this entry: geek stuff - October, 2004
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using google api from PHP
Now available for your downloading pleasure, is my GoogleSoap class. have you eveer felt the sudden need to use the Google's web APIs through PHP ? Worry not as help is at hand. You can use the GoogleSoap class to make your job easier. I have put the code and related documentation/examples in the public domain, so you can hack it up further. Some rudimentary instructions are included in the README file, I will add more to it as and when time permits me. Any additions/suggestions are always welcome.
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Hyperlinks with LaTeX
I am big fan of Texinfo for writing articles or any other documentations work (yes, I do sometimes try to write the specification document). For a few weeks now, I have been trying to learn LaTeX, sice it can be used to typeset good quality presentation slides and letters too.
A problem that I faced when writing the articles in LaTeX was on how to make a hyperlink to a webpage. I was using latex2html to convert the latex file to HTML format. LaTeX comes with a hyperref package which can be used to create links. It has a
\href
command which can be used to create hyperlinks, but the links did not come out in the HTML page. I found that this was a known problem with hyperref and latex2html. However, the solution, as I found out, is much easier. The command to use is\htmladdnormallink{link text}{universal resource locator}
You have to include the package html in your document to use it\usepackage{html,makeidx} .... The text of this article can be downloaded from our \htmladdnormallink{web site}{http://www.example.org}.
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make your google search box in firefox bigger
initially I thought of giving this post the title "make your bigger ..."
While going through the Mozillazine's Firefox forum, I came across this interesting discussion on how to make the google search box bigger. In your userChrome.css, put in the following lines/ Make the Search box flex wider / #search-container { -moz-box-flex: 600 !important; } #searchbar { -moz-box-flex: 600 !important; }
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