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Wikis and notepads and text files, oh my!

October 16, 2009

The other night, @verso tweeted a ques­tion about run­ning a lit­tle wiki on a home file server.  I responded with Tid­dly­Wiki, which is a whole wiki con­tained in a sin­gle HTML file.  It actu­ally may or may not ful­fill her needs, since there are huge con­cur­rency and remote access issues — it’s designed to be […]

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The Office Wiki Stored in my iPhone

March 4, 2009

Yester­day, I was look­ing for a way to carry around a local copy of a wiki on my iPhone.  It seems that there are sev­eral apps that let you carry around an offline copy of Wikipedia — in case you are stuck on an air­plane or out of cell­phone range and need to look something […]

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Who Broke Wikipedia? (and IP5 recap proctastination)

February 20, 2009

Okay — who broke Wikipedia???  I’ve never seen this error screen before!

I’m still recov­er­ing from Too Much Ter­mi­na­tor Stout, oth­er­wise I’d be writ­ing about how cool Ignite Port­land 5 was instead of post­ing Wikipedia error mes­sages.  Maybe tomor­row.  I return home soon and expect to be sleep almost immediately.

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StackOverflow Gets a Facelift

February 2, 2009

I have this lit­tle site I run, StackOverflow.org, which is pri­mar­ily two things.  First, it is a cache of lots of dif­fer­ent tech­ni­cal doc­u­ments all over the inter­net that I find myself refer­ring to fre­quently: RFC spec­i­fi­ca­tions, lan­guage and library ref­er­ences, ASCII charts, and what­not.  Sec­ondly, it holds a Wiki that con­tains a bunch of […]

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wgFileCacheDirectory

January 31, 2007

Note to future self (and to any­one else who may be set­ting up a high-traffic[1] Medi­aWiki server at some point):
In the­ory, all you need to do to enable caching, which greatly improves per­for­mance is to add the fol­low­ing lines to LocalSettings.php.  Every­thing is very well doc­u­mented to rein­force that this is what you need to do.

$wgShowIP­in­Header = […]

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Getting Things Done

October 26, 2006

Holy carp.  I think I have found the coolest app that I’ve seen in a long time.  It is cer­tainly one of the coolest pro­duc­tiv­ity apps I’ve seen in an even longer time.
First off, let me say that I’m a bit jaded when it comes to “per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity” crap.  I have seen so many little […]

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Useful Web Office Tools

February 17, 2006

A while back, Sub­sti­tute made a post that ref­er­enced a sit­u­a­tion that, I believe, most every­one that has worked in an office has expe­ri­enced.  You know — there's a group of peo­ple that have a problem/task that needs to be solved and the only tool they have at their dis­posal, how­ever inap­pro­pri­ate to the task, […]

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