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admin1 blogged on 2010-02-21T15:59:17+00:00

beta blog goes technorati


... now I take pride in the words: beta-blog.net has been finally accepted officially as one one of 112 million weblogs the blogosphere takes note of:  → read more …

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admin1 blogged on 2010-02-14T00:07:42+00:00

getting rid of MT's permalink file extensions


While designing scalable and portable web projects, it's always a good idea to design hyperlinks independently of the physical file path from where the respective request should be served then.  → read more …

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Sebastian blogged on 2010-01-09T16:35:09+00:00

¡La Gomera!


uno de esos lugares en donde se entiende: este planeta es el muy más hermoso del universo.  → read more …

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Sebastian blogged on 2009-12-06T16:13:41+00:00

AutoSmileys:-) Plugin for Movable Type


Freely configurable automatic raplacement of textual emoticons by image tags. AutoSmileys is an easy to use and highly customizable macro environment for Movable Type. It will replace self-defined text abbreviations by image tags when your site is published or dynamically rendered, respectively. It may be applied either within entries, comments, pages, or any other part of your site.  → read more …

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Sebastian blogged on 2009-11-28T23:33:32+00:00

a wordlist folding algorithm


Assumed you wish to match a large wordlist against a huge chunk of text. As a small test case, let for, far, bar, foo, boofaz, boofar, boof, faz, foobaz, foobars, boofar be your wordlist. Now, you may apply the according regualar expression: But which way a regex engine would implement the assignment?  → read more …

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Sebastian blogged on 2009-11-17T20:23:58+00:00

understanding unicode surrogates / or: how to deal with Linear B strings in .NET


Remember a String object in .NET is a collection of Char objects, where a Char object in turn s announced as a unicode character, encoded by a 16bit unsigned integer. Thus, more precisely speaking, a single Char object is able to encode any codepoint within the basic multilingual lane (BMP), i.e. between U+0000 and U+FFFF. So, where goes the rest of the story? Unicode, as an universal character set, is designed to support much more than 65536 characters of ourse.  → read more …

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Sebastian blogged on 2009-11-12T23:44:36+00:00

Fun with European domain names


Starting 10 December 2009, companies and private persons based in the European Union will be able to register.eu Internationalised Domain Names  → read more …

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Sebastian blogged on 2009-10-25T08:10:52+00:00

no sleep till DENIC


Donnerstag, 15.10.2009, 16:14 Uhr.
Ein unspektakulärer Arbeitstag neigt sich dem Ende zu. Im Posteingang erscheint eine Verlautbarung der DENIC-Mitgliederliste. Von einem BGH-Urteil ist die Rede, von neuen Domainrichtlinien. Da per Gerichtsbeschluss die Registrierung der Domain vw.de angeordnet wurde, sollen auch vergleichbare Domainnamen freigegeben werden, die bisher nicht zugelassen waren: 1- und 2-stellige Domains, Zifferndomains, sowie Toplevel-Domains und deutsche Autokennzeichen.  → read more …

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Sebastian blogged on 2009-10-17T14:44:37+00:00

Kalkulator kolorów DHTML


wow, the one and only legendary good old DHTML Color Calculator has been translated into Polish :-)→ read more …

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admin1 blogged on 2009-10-15T21:35:50+00:00

shorten by regex


While customizing my mt blog, I was wondering how to abbreviate long entry titles on particular places in a nice way. Well, mt provides template tag modifiers such as trim-to, but my aim was to do it more nicely, i.e. replacing anything behind the first three (or any other maximum) words by an ellipsis.  → read more …

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