Monthly Archives: November 2006

Geshi-based syntax highlighter for WordPress

Posted on November 30, 2006 by Graeme Hunter

This is my second test of a code syntax highlighter, in this case the Geshi-based syntax highlighter plugin. This isn’t very successful either. The problem is with multiline cut and paste, certainly in Firefox. Doesn’t behave how you would hope. … Continue reading →

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XPDay 2006 – Programmers are from Mars, Customers are from Venus

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Graeme Hunter

These notes are taken from the above talk on 27th November 2006, given by Angela Martin, James Noble and Robert Biddle. The bulk of the first half of the session was an extended planning game, with several elements of chaos … Continue reading →

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Dean’s Source Code syntax highlighting plugin for WordPress V1.1

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Graeme Hunter

I’ve been asked to find a WordPress plugin for source-code highlighting in posts. My first research leads me to the belief that the area to look at are plugins which use the Generic Syntax Highlighter or GeSHi. This can handle … Continue reading →

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XPDay 2006 – The Toyota Way of Managing – Talk by Pascal van Cauwenberge

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Graeme Hunter

What follows are my notes on Pascal van Cauwenberge‘s presentation at the London XP Day 2006. Why is it useful to us? Because it is reflected in many Agile processes and ideologies. 14 Management Principles, split into 4 categories: Philosophy … Continue reading →

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Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress

Posted on November 21, 2006 by Graeme Hunter

I’ve been meaning for a while to submit the sitemaps for my domains to Google’s Webmaster Central site. Having a sitemap for the googlebot to read improves how your site is crawled, and means only the pages you want are … Continue reading →

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Lazy way to install Perl modules in Ubuntu 6.10

Posted on November 20, 2006 by Graeme Hunter

I’m starting to find my way around my new install of Ubuntu. This morning I found I had loads of errors in my Perl scripts stored in Eclipse. A quick check revealed that it was due to not having certain … Continue reading →

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GTD – Keeping your inbox cleared

Posted on November 16, 2006 by Graeme Hunter

Great article over at downloadsquad.com on keeping your inbox cleared and up to date. I’m trying to do this on both my work and personal mail, and at the moment it is mainly working. I had already employed most of … Continue reading →

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Google results a bad influence?

Posted on November 8, 2006 by Graeme Hunter

I’ve got a little project on the go at the moment to list all the software I’ve got on all of my machines. I’m using del.icio.us to store the homepages of each item of software, and tagging them with a … Continue reading →

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Choosing Software – What if you’re wrong?

Posted on November 6, 2006 by Graeme Hunter

During an onerous task today, I think I learnt a valuable lesson in choosing an appropriate software package. We’re moving from a Blosjom-based blog to a WordPress one. Now I’m happy with this change, seeing as this past year I’ve … Continue reading →

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Dean’s FCK editor for WordPress plugin

Posted on November 6, 2006 by Graeme Hunter

I’ve just started using Dean’s FCK WordPress plugin on this blog. I really am not a fan of the standard WYSIWYG WordPress editor, it is really flakey, and not very intuitive. The FCK editor is a bit more comprehensive, and … Continue reading →

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