Marc Abramowitz – Page 215

Zoidberg – a modular perl shell

I'm playing around a bit with: Zoidberg - a modular perl shell The idea of having a shell that allows Perl-syntax is interesting. The problem I am having right now is that the "cd" command doesn't work. That one is kind of a...

General

Bot Check for WordPress

Bot Check is a great WordPress plugin that I just installed on my site. It adds a little dynamically generated image of a numeric code that the user must type in for their comment to be accepted. It took me all of 10 minutes to...

C++Programming

C struct initialization and strptime bug

I wrote some code to use strptime to parse a human-readable time string into a struct tm and I had a bug where the struct had the hour one hour in the past, which suggested a daylight savings time (dst) problem. After puzzling...

General

Upgraded to WordPress 1.5

I made the switch from WordPress 1.2 to WordPress 1.5. Pretty easy and I noticed that some annoying bugs in 1.2 were fixed, so I don't have to waste time looking for patches. Perhaps most notably, I can post trackbacks to other...

ProductivityProgramming

Developer Todo

Interesting little program for maintaining todo lists: freshmeat.net: Project details for Developer Todo I gave it a quick spin and it's nice, but I've been pretty happy with using TWiki for managing tasks, plus it doubles as my...

Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.1 Release Candidate – MozillaZine Talkback

Release candidate builds of Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.1 are now available. Like last month's Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1, this new version will just fix a few security and stability bugs; it's not a major update. Mozilla Thunderbird...

General

Search Panel

Here's an interesting little search sidebar that uses the Yahoo Web APIs. I found about it from this press release. Search Panel, the popular browser companion which lets users search as they surf, now supports Yahoo! search....