Month: January 2005
WordPress Plugin: WP-Amazon
This is a nifty WordPress plugin for finding content from Amazon.com and inserting it in your blog posts, optionally with an associates id, so that you get credit for the referral. manalang.com � WordPress Plugin: WP-Amazon...
Just read Julie Morgenstern’s new book
I just finished reading this book a few days ago: There is some very nice info in here on how to make sure that your goals are aligned with your boss's, how to concentrate on the things that really matter, and how to stave off...
Listing your Firefox extensions and their UUIDs
Here's how to list your Firefox extensions and their UUIDs : 14:11 Marc@Toshiba-Laptop:/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Marc /Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles /8louy9l2.default/extensions$ grep em:name */install.rdf |...
Some handy UNIX shell tools
tzls and tzx - Quick extraction and content-listing for archives such as tar.gz files fff and ffl - Quick, case-insensitive file-find with unquoted wildcards bd - Backup with Date appended. Copy the specified file(s) to the same...
The cygpath to enlightenment
If you have a Windows path name and want to go to that path in a Cygwin bash shell, here's how to do it: $ cd "`cygpath 'C:\Documents and Settings\Marc'`" Since this may be hard to remember, here's a handy bash...
The Abilene Paradox
Another term mentioned in Thursday's project management class. Here are some links that I found on it: Wikipedia c2.com Wiki arl.org...