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My cheesy Scuttle hack

Monday, February 5, 2007

I’ve had some requests for my admin_delete_users_bookmarks_and_tags for Scuttle that I hobbled together some time ago. After going through all the files in my scuttle installation, I realized the only hack was that I changed the function isAdmin in the services/userservice.php from this: function isAdmin($userid) { return false; //not implemented yet }to this: function isAdmin($userid) [...]

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LISP?

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Thanks to Alan: Hmmm – LISP is obscure, confusing enough to give the appearance of being complex, understood by very few people and used to simulate intelligence. Yep, that sounds like me! If you’ve read this, consider yourself tagged – take the quiz. Is anybody a Python? That’s what I was hoping for.

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Searching for a Mac Text Editor – some reviews

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

As part of my M.Ed. project, I’ll be building a web site. Most sane people would do this using Dreamweaver or some similar product. I, however, am not one of those people – I prefer to create web pages by hand-coding the HTML and CSS files. I suppose if I wanted to be uber-geeky about [...]

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Kludging Scuttle

Friday, August 18, 2006

This is just a quickie braindump post so I have some notes on a bit of tweaking I just did on the school’s installation of Scuttle, an open-source social bookmarking tool similar to del.icio.us. The problem we were running into was a lack of administrative control to get rid of undesirable (spam) links in the [...]

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try ruby: a great programming tutorial

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

I was just taking a look at try ruby! (in your browser), a very cool little programming tutorial for the Ruby language. Normally, I would just add this to my del.icio.us feed, but del.icio.us appears to be well and truly bollixed at the moment. (Sorry if this is offensive language to anyone, but it is [...]

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