Category Archives: Computers

MarkItUp Markdown footnote button

Posted on September 9, 2009 by benjamin

Here’s a simple addition to markItUp, that will prompt the user for a footnote number, a footnote text and then insert the number after the selection and the footnote text at the end of the full text. As handy extra … Continue reading →

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Django localized date template filter

Posted on July 10, 2009 by benjamin

UPDATE! This is going to be redundant in Django 1.2, in which you can add DATE_FORMAT to your django.po files. I’ve often been frustrated that using settings.DATE_FORMAT does not give a localized date. Granted that the name of a month … Continue reading →

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Presenting: django-simple-wiki

Posted on April 27, 2009 by benjamin

It was bothering me that all the wikis I tried, all had either errors, feature lacks, too many dependencies or were simply unmaintained. So I decided to create yet another one. Curiously, the third hit when googling ‘django wiki’ is … Continue reading →

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Getting started with Data Parallel Haskell

Posted on April 9, 2009 by benjamin

DPH is a work-in-progress, and not everything is yet easy to realize. But you should still prepare yourself as a Haskell programmer, because this is really where Haskell can set off into uncharted areas of popularity and innovation. As an … Continue reading →

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GTK and scrolling without scrollbars

Posted on January 27, 2009 by benjamin

There’s still some work to do on the full screen plugin for Rhythmbox, but the current version is very usable indeed. The latest addition is scrolling by hovering the track list. I changed the display from a normal fixed table … Continue reading →

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