Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 8. Oktober bis zum 22. Oktober:

• Apple Store Refurb Tracker – provides different feeds enabling you to track apparition of new products on the Apple Store Refurb pages.
• Pinky – is a free portable web server.
• PieCrust – is a static website generator and lightweight CMS that’s all managed with text files. No complex setup, databases, or administrative panels.
• num-utils – are a set of programs for dealing with numbers from the Unix command line. Much like the other Unix command line utilities like grep, awk, sort, cut, etc. these utilities work on data from both standard in and data from files.
• Bashish – is a theme enviroment for text terminals. It can change colors, font, transparency and background image on a per-application basis. Additionally Bashish supports prompt changing on common shells such as bash, zsh and tcsh.
• Fake – is a new browser for Mac OS X that makes web automation simple. Fake allows you to drag discrete browser Actions into a graphical Workflow that can be run again and again without human interaction.
• Avatar Harmony – Synchronize your profile pics between Facebook, Twitter and Gravatar.
• git-dude – is a simple git desktop notifier. It monitors git repositories in current directory for new commits/branches/tags and shows desktop notification if anything new arrived.
• Private Eye – is a free network monitor for Mac OS X Lion
• bcat – pipe to browser utility

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 25. Mai bis zum 6. Juni:

• Squeaky – is a web proxy, in the spirit of a2 or PHProxy
• Archive – This free plugin extends Apple Mail with the archive feature that you know and love from MobileMe and Gmail.
• lesspipe – is an input filter for the pager less as described in its man page. The script runs under a ksh compliant shell (ksh, bash, zsh) and allows to view files with binary content, compressed files, archives and files contained in archives.
• YOURLS – is a small set of PHP scripts that will allow you to run your own URL shortening service (a la TinyURL). You can make it private or public, you can pick custom keyword URLs, it comes with its own API. You will love it.
• MFCMAPI – uses Microsoft's published APIs to provide access to MAPI stores through a graphical user interface. Its purpose is to facilitate investigation of Exchange and Outlook issues and to provide developers with a canonical sample for MAPI development.
• Markdoc – is a lightweight Markdown-based wiki system. It's been designed to allow you to create and manage wikis as quickly and easily as possible.
• SL – (Steam Locomotive) runs across your terminal when you type "sl" as you meant to type "ls". It's just a joke command, and not usefull at all.
• mairix – is a program for indexing and searching email messages stored in maildir, MH or mbox folders.
• Guake – is a top-down terminal for Gnome (in the style of Yakuake for KDE, Tilda or the terminal used in Quake).
• Infinite Scroll – Automatically append the next page of posts (via AJAX) to your page when a user scrolls to the bottom.

Na da habe ich gerade aber blöd aus der Wäsche geschaut. Das automatische Update auf WordPress 3.1.3 ist hängen geblieben und dann war sowohl auf dem Blog, als auch auf dem Dashboard nur noch die Meldung

Für kurze Zeit nicht verfügbar, um eine regelmäßige Instandhaltung durchzuführen. Prüfe in einer Minute erneut.

zu lesen.

Glücklicherweise ist das recht einfach zu fixen. Einfach im Webroot des Blogs die Datei .maintenance löschen und das Problem ist gelöst. Im Anschluss lief dann auch der zweite Versuch gewohnt sauber durch…

Aber vielleicht ist das auch einfach ein Zeichen Gottes und sie will, dass ich auf Jekyll migriere?

(Fix via: TechieBuzz)

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 3. Mai bis zum 25. Mai:

• Sosumi – is a simple way to find your iPhone using your Mac.
• NirCmd – is a small command-line utility that allows you to do some useful tasks without displaying any user interface.
• GeoNamesTagger – is a Mac OS X docklet to easily update image EXIF, IPTC and XMP metadata with location specific information.
• Oolite – is a space sim game, inspired by Elite, powered by Objective-C and OpenGL, and designed as a small game that is easy for users to pick up, modify and expand upon. Almost every aspect of the game can be changed by using simple, free graphics packages and text editors.
• DTerm – provides a context-sensitive command line that makes it fast and easy to run commands on the files you're working with and then use the results of those commands.
• Using p4merge with Git – Although it is correct that git doesn't come with a nice merge tool, it is quite happy to use any merge tool that you have on hand. And since Perforce's merge tool is available free, you can use p4merge with git.
• Rubular – is a Ruby-based regular expression editor. It's a handy way to test regular expressions as you write them.
• 5 Best Dropbox WordPress Plugins – Nice list, Dropbox Sync looks especially nice for a backup of all images.
• Vagrant – is a tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments. By providing automated creation and provisioning of virtual machines using Oracle's VirtualBox, Vagrant provides the tools to create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable virtual environments.
• Blueprint – is DevStructure's workhorse tool that looks inside popular package managers, finds changes you made to configuration files, and archives software you built from source to generate Puppet, Chef, or shell code. Everything blueprint sees is stored in Git to be diffed and pushed. It runs on Debian and RPM based distros with Python 2.6.

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 21. Februar bis zum 6. März:

• git-annex – allows managing files with git, without checking the file contents into git. While that may seem paradoxical, it is useful when dealing with files larger than git can currently easily handle, whether due to limitations in memory, checksumming time, or disk space.
• Handling my music collection with git-annex – Very cool, would probably not work with iTunes…
• Pipe Viewer – is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.
• tumblr2wp – Tumblr2WP makes it super simple to transfer your Tumblr content to your own, self-hosted WordPress install.
• Naked Password – The whole idea of naked password is to encourage your users to enter stronger passwords. Our beautiful model Sally tastefully removes items of clothing as the password grows stronger.
• beets – is the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks
• Searching Active Directory with ldapsearch – If you think there isn't a trick to this, that means you've never tried it – leastways not on an Active Directory container that has more than 1,000 objects in it (or whatever the search limit has been set to in your environment)
• TCP Performance problems caused be interaction between Nagle's Algorithm and Delayed ACK – The overall summary is that many of the mechanisms that make TCP so great, like fast retransmit, work best when there's a continuous flow of data for the TCP state machine to work on. If you send a block of data and then stop and wait for an application-layer acknowledgment from the other end, the state machine can falter.
• shop – A tool to show permissions at every level in a path. Shop gives you a quick overview of the permissions of the directory in question, as well as the permissions of every directory above it in the tree.
• monotone – is a free distributed version control system. It provides a simple, single-file transactional version store, with fully disconnected operation and an efficient peer-to-peer synchronization protocol.

In dieser kleinen Ecke des Netzes waren seit einiger Zeit die Fußnoten defekt. Anstelle der Umlaute und einiger anderer Zeichen wurden in der Mouse-Over Anzeige¹ nur die HTML-Entities angezeigt. Die Fußnoten an sich waren ok.

Das Problem ist nun dank der aktuellen Trunk-Version des Plugins behoben, und wird somit auch im nächsten Release gefixt. Wer so lange nicht warten kann, lade sich einfach hier die Development Version herunter und installiere sie anstelle der Version 4.2.

Works like a charm.

(via: WordPress Suport)

1. Genau so etwas meine ich damit… [↩]

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 25. August bis zum 31. August:

• sshuttle – Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN. Forwards over ssh. Doesn't require admin access.
• mNote – for Android is a fast notepad for Android allowing for offline local note editing, managment, and searching. In addition, mNote synchronizes with Simplenote
• Dirpy – is an advanced DVR for your favorite online media. For example, use Dirpy to record your favorite YouTube videos to mp3s!
• Git for the lazy – This guide is for people who want to jump to any point in time with their project/game/whatever, and want something to use for themselves.
• DiG HOWTO – How to use dig to query DNS name servers
• 100 Free High Quality WordPress Themes: 2010 Edition –
• PosteRazor – The PosteRazor cuts a raster image into pieces which can afterwards be printed out and assembled to a poster.
• Soulver – It's quicker to use than a spreadsheet, and smarter and clearer than a traditional calculator.

Mir ist aufgefallen, dass ich ziemlich häufig auf instant-thinking selbst, verschiedene Wikipedia-Artikel oder auf Flickr-Bilder verlinke.

In Doku-Wikis¹ werden interne und externe Links mit unterschiedlichen Icons markiert und da dachte ich mir, dass es eine gute Idee wäre so etwas auch für dieses Blog einzuführen. Auf diese Art und Weise können Leser die bestimmte Begriffe schon kennen, es sich sparen den Link anzuklicken. Sie erhalten die Information “Das ist ein Wikipedia-Artikel”, durch ein kleines “W” direkt neben dem Link, ohne extra über den Link hovern zu müssen. Durch die gleiche Technik, etwa ein Flickr-F, sind auch andere Arten von Links sofort zu erkennen und machen das Lesen der Posts leichter.

Bei der Gelegenheit fiel mir auch auf, dass instant-thinking noch gar kein Favicon besitzt, welches man schön als Indikator für interne Links verwenden könnte. Also musste das auch noch rasch hergestellt werden.

Also ist folgende, durchaus übersichtliche, ToDo zu bearbeiten:

1. Favicon entwerfen und einbinden
2. Link-Icons implementieren

Wie schwierig kann das schon sein?

Weiterlesen →

1. BTW ein sehr praktisches Wiki-System ohne Datenbankabhängigkeiten [↩]

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 12. Juli bis zum 20. Juli:

• CCC | Forderungen für ein lebenswertes Netz – Der CCC – Die Stimme der Vernunft.
• CMS Tree Page View – is a plugin for WordPress that adds a CMS-like tree overview of all your pages, like the view often found in a page-focused CMS.
• Aufbewahrungsfristen für Dokumente – Sehr praktische Informationen aus der Quintessenz von WDR 2.
• Exchange ActiveSync on Mac OS X Server –
• UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits –
• Mailboxes – is a multi-user Gmail client for the iPad, letting you easily and securely access your Gmail and Google Apps email accounts on a shared iPad.
• The Firmware Umbrella – Making local iOS Restores possible by saving your SHSH hashes locally and at Cydia. This way, even when (not if) Apple decides to stop signing your firmware, you are still able to install it…
• Hacking Network Printers (Mostly HP JetDirects, but a little info on the Ricoh Savins) – This article will attempt to point out some of the more interesting things that can be done with a network based printer to make it reveal information about its users, owners and the network it's part of.
• Disk2vhd – is a utility that creates VHD versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines. The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online.
• London Food Tipps » tautoko weblog – Asian food and coffee stores.

So geht das hier ja nun nicht weiter. Die FOM ist abgeschlossen, die Hochzeit ist gelaufen. Eigentlich sollte ich doch nun deutlich mehr Zeit haben, hier den ein oder anderen Artikel fertig zu stellen.

In der Queue stehen Entwürfe, ich habe hier Tabs offen die zum Teil schon mehrere Jahre und ein OS-Update überlebt haben und ich erlebe ja tatsächlich auch hin und wieder bloggenswerte Sachen die eben nicht in 140 Zeichen passen. Hier wird mal besser bald ein ganz anderer Wind wehen. Zwei Posts pro Woche sollten doch machbar sein, oder?

I mean, if I don’t get up and start to blog anytime now, I could as well just give up, buy this friggin’ cool iPad thingie and consume the hell out of the web instead of contributing to it.

Oder?

Oder?