Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 19. November bis zum 8. Dezember:

• Anki – is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it is a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn.
• Ledger – is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line. This may put off some users, as there is no flashy UI, but for those who want unparalleled reporting access to their data, there really is no alternative.
• Glances – is a CLI curses based monitoring tool for both GNU/Linux and BSD.
• Gow – (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient "Windows installer" that installs about 130 extremely useful open source UNIX applications compiled as native win32 binaries.
• Breevy – is a TextExpander clone for Windows. Snippets are syncable between Mac and Windows via Dropbox.
• Vifm – is a ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings. If you use vi, vifm gives you complete keyboard control over your files without having to learn a new set of commands.
• blockdiag – and its family generate diagram images from simply text file
• Archipel – is a solution to manage and supervise virtual machines. You can use all libvirt-supported virtualization engines like KVM, Xen, OpenVZ or VMWare. You can perform all basic virtualization commands and many other things like live migration, VMCasts, packages, etc.
• stressdrive – is a Mac OS X command-line tool meant to verify correct operation of a drive. It does so by filling a drive up with random data and ensuring all the data can be correctly read back.
• ThinkUp – is a free, open source web application that captures all your activity on social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google+.

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 24. Oktober bis zum 19. November:

• spark – A little shell script that lets you generate sparklines at the command line.
• glogg – is a multi-platform GUI application to browse and search through long or complex log files. It is designed with programmers and system administrators in mind. glogg can be seen as a graphical, interactive combination of grep and less.
• ResophNotes – Notational Velocity clone for Windows including Simplenote-sync and Markdown support
• Pandoc – is your swiss-army knife if you need to convert files from one markup format into another. Need to generate a man page from a markdown file? No problem. LaTeX to Docbook? Sure. HTML to MediaWiki? Yes, that too.
• GitLab – is your own lite app for projects/repositories hosting on your server. Basically it is a free GithHub Clone written in Ruby on Rails.
• Coordino – allows you to create a question and answer system for you and your users to enjoy. Basically it is a free StackOverflow Clone written in PHP.
• KeyStroke – is a Safari extension that provides customizable keyboard shorcuts for common tasks and enhancements.
• Samurize – is an advanced system monitoring and desktop enhancement engine for Windows. IT professionals, overclockers, gamers and desktop modders alike use Samurize for system information, weather reports, news headlines and much much more.
• dexy – is an open source document automation tool that can help you create documents using your favourite programming languages and your favourite software.
• MarkdownPad – is a full-featured Markdown editor for Windows.

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 9. Juli bis zum 15. Juli:

• Marked – opens MultiMarkdown, Markdown, Text or HTML files and previews them as HTML documents. It watches the file for changes, updating the preview any time the file is saved.
• Stupid htaccess Tricks – this article covers just about every htaccess trick in the book.
• URL Rewriting for Beginners – A beginner's guide to URL rewriting, with plenty of examples.
• IP Scanner – scans your local area network to determine the identity of all machines and internet devices on the LAN.
• vitunes – lets you control and navigate iTunes from the comfort of Vim.
• DotShare.it – is the attempted solution to all of the sporadic "Post your X configs!" threads on various distro's forums.
• Cool, but obscure unix tools – Just a list of 20 (now 28) tools for the command line. Some are little-known, some are just too useful to miss, some are pure obscure
• Surfraw – provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power.
• Observium – is an autodiscovering PHP/MySQL/SNMP based network monitoring which includes support for a wide range of network hardware and operating systems including Cisco, Linux, FreeBSD, Juniper, Foundry, HP and many more.
• HTML-Ipsum – A handy collection of dummy HTML markup, pre-greeked for your convenience.

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.

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 21. März bis zum 3. April:

• Boxer – plays all the MS-DOS games of your misspent youth, right here on your Mac.
• Vim Recipes – is a free cookbook for Vim, the popular text editor. It does not replace Vim's excellent built-in documentation, but complements it by focussing on tasks rather than commands.
• WinSplit Revolution – is a small utility which allows you to easily organize your open windows by tiling, resizing and positioning them to make the best use of your desktop real estate
• flashbake – A seamless source control solution combines the convenience of automated back up with the power of source version control.
• ScraperWiki – is a platform for writing and scheduling screen scrapers, and for storing the data they generate
• The Motherfucking Manifesto For Programming, Motherfuckers – We are tired of XP, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, Software Craftsmanship (aka XP-Lite) and anything else getting in the way of…Programming, Motherfucker.
• How to use iWeb to build a killer frontpage for your Facebook Fan Page. –
• PHP-RegExp-Tutorial – Ausführliche, deutschsprachige Informationen zum Aufbau und zur Verwendung von Regulären Ausdrücken in PHP.
• CLCL – Is a clipboard caching utility for Windows. Works with text and files.
• git-friendly – is a collection of shell scripts for automating basic git workflows that you probably find yourself typing over and over again.

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 8. Februar bis zum 18. Februar:

• Tweet Nest – A browsable, searchable and easily customizable archive and backup for your tweets
• git mail – Why to store your mail in git
• ttyload – is a little *NIX utility… to give a color-coded graph of load averages over time.
• Backup Loupe – is an extension for TimeMachine on OS X
• SoyWiki – turns Vim into a powerful, lean, and fast wiki. It’s got all the protein of a more conventional wiki, but less saturated fat and no cholesterol.
• Git Immersion – is a guided tour that walks through the fundamentals of Git, inspired by the premise that to know a thing is to do it.
• ClipCube – is a tiny clipboard history tool under development for Windows: it sits in the system tray, recording copied text for later use.
• How to write vim plugins with python – You only need very little knowledge of VimL to be able to write plugins, if you know Python (or Ruby).
• DiskWave – is a free disk usage utility. It helps you determine where most of your hard drive space is consumed. DiskWave was previously known as WhichSize.
• SABnzbd – makes Usenet as simple and streamlined as possible by automating everything we can. All you have to do is add an .nzb. SABnzbd takes over from there, where it will be automatically downloaded, verified, repaired, extracted and filed away with zero human interaction.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 26. April bis zum 12. Mai:

• latex-lab – is an open source implementation of a web based LaTeX editor for Google Docs.
• adsf – A Dead Simple Fileserver is a tiny web server that you can launch instantly in any directory.
• NConf – NConf is a PHP based web-tool for configuring the Nagios monitoring software. It differs from similar tools by offering enterprise-class features like templates, dependencies and the ability to configure a large-scale, distributed Nagios server topology.
• 3-2-1 – is a countdown timer for Dashboard (OS X). It displays hours, minutes, and seconds, includes a lap function and is resizable
• 60 Minimal Apple Desktop Wallpapers –
• Driver Easy – Auto-Detect & Download your Hardware Drivers, Quickly & Easily.
• Analyzing I/O performance in Linux –
• ifconfig.me – Get your current external IP via curl ifconfig.me
• The Ultimate WordPress Security Guide –
• Gas Mask – is simple hosts file manager for Mac OS X Leopard. It enables to edit hosts files and switch between them.

Ich habe schon immer vorgehabt, eine “Über diese Seite” und “Über diesen Autor” Sektion anzulegen. Schon zu Zeiten als instant-thinking.de noch eine lokale SnipSnap-Installation auf meinem iBook G3 war…

Nun habe ich zumindest über mich ein paar Zeilen auf das elektronische Papier gebracht und auch gleich in der Seitenleiste eingebunden. Dazu habe ich ein Foto von mir eingesetzt, ich finde das gibt dem ganzen eine etwas persönlichere Note.

Das selbe Foto verwende ich aber auch auf der eigentlichen Seite. Das schaut, wie man auf dem unten stehenden Bild recht gut sehen kann, dann nicht mehr so nett aus und widerspricht völligst dem DRY-Gedanken.

Und wenn sich jemand auf der Seite befindet, auf die der Hinweis hinweist, so muss er ja eigentlich auch nicht mehr darauf hingewiesen werden, wo er denn nun Informationen über den Autor finden kann. Er ist ja vermutlich gerade vor einem Klick eben diesem Hinweis gefolgt. Daher habe ich nach einem Weg gesucht, wie das Widget mit dem Hinweis und meinem Foto ausgeblendet werden kann, wenn die Seite betrachtet wird.

Und das war dank dem Widget Logic Plugin und den Conditional Tags von WordPress gar nicht so sonderlich schwierig. Das Plugin fügt unter jedem Widget ein Feld ein, das mit Conditional Tags gefüllt werden kann. Je nach Inhalt der Tags gibt es entweder true zurück und zeigt das Widget an, oder false und blendet es aus.

Das Tag is_home() würde das Widget nur auf der Startseite anzeigen, is_page('about') zeigt das Widget nur auf der Seite mit “about” als URL-Slug an.

Das sind so die grundlegenden Tags, viele andere Verwendungsmöglichkeiten, beispielsweise auch die Verknüpfung von mehreren Tags mit booleschen Operatoren, findet man in der FAQ und den Notes des Plugins.

Um mein Ziel zu erreichen musste ich das Tag für meine Seite ausserdem per vorangestelltem ! negieren. So wird im konkreten Fall einfach !is_page('dennis-wegner') in das Widget Logic Feld geschrieben und schon wird das Widget auf allen Seiten ausser auf der Seite mit “dennis-wegner” als URL-Slug angezeigt.

Widget Logic ist ein sehr schönes Beispiel, wie man dank eines Plugins um ein direktes Editieren des Quellcodes herum kommt, ohne auf die Flexibilität von PHP verzichten zu müssen.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 4. Januar bis zum 15. Januar:

• MAP, ACT, WAIK, MDT: Windows 7 im Netz verteilen mit Microsoft-Tools – Schöner Überblick über die von Microsoft bereitgestellten Werkzeuge für die Verteilung von und Migration auf Windows 7.
• FOG – is a Linux-based, free and open source computer imaging solution for Windows XP and Vista that ties together a few open-source tools with a php-based web interface. Fog doesn't use any boot disks, or CDs; everything is done via TFTP and PXE.
• understudy – allows access to streaming video through the Front Row interface of Mac OS X. The user can subscribe to multiple feeds, and select a video to watch from them. Understudy currently supports Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, and to some degree the BBC iPlayer.
• Software Is Hard –
• GhettoPush – A Perl implementation of IMAP push for the iPhone with generic IMAP servers.
• HFS – Nice looking HTTP-Fileserver for Windows.

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 17. November bis zum 24. November:

• FormulatePro – helps you open and write on PDF documents. You can fill out any PDF form document, drop in graphics, scribble with the mouse or a tablet, save and print.
• Dia – is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio', though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.
• bananajour – is local git repository hosting with a sexy web interface and Bonjour discovery. It's like a bunch of adhoc, local, network-aware githubs!
• LaTeX to WordPress – is a program that converts a LaTeX file into something that is ready to be cut and pasted into WordPress.
• Name Mangler – if you need to rename several files at once every now and then, this is the application you have always been looking for.
• Wallpaper Junie – With WJ you can view and download InterfaceLIFT wallpapers(over 2000 available).
• EventSync – is an application for OS X that allows you to sync your Facebook Events with iCal. Now you will never miss the next party, meeting, or any other event that is posted on Facebook.
• ikiwiki – is a wiki compiler. It converts wiki pages into HTML pages suitable for publishing on a website. Ikiwiki stores pages and history in a revision control system such as Subversion or Git. There are many other features, including support for blogging, as well as a large array of plugins.
• flogr – shows your pictures from flickr in a customizable photo portfolio interface which includes a main photo page with EXIF details and flickr user comments, a customizable thumbnails page of your recent work, a slideshow component to browse through thumbnails, a tag cloud page, and an about page that shows your flickr user profile.