Tag Archives: programming

The Planet of Swears

Posted on June 17, 2009 by Liz Henry

I’m writing some RSS feed scraper programs and while playing around with that, set up an install of Planet feed reader. It was very funny to see on the one hand, lots of people blogging or writing things like “Oh, … finish reading The Planet of Swears

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Ada Lovelace Day

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Liz Henry

I felt a little wistful as I thought over who to write about. I wished for a clear mentor or hero who I would have known about from childhood onward. Not many of us had that kind of computer science … finish reading Ada Lovelace Day

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Programming languages and science fiction!

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Liz Henry

Cat Valente, Tiptree-winning author of The Orphan’s Tales, wrote up a brilliant comparison of programming languages to literary genres. She covers a lot of ground here as a cultural and critic, and she’s witty as hell. If the bits I’m … finish reading Programming languages and science fiction!

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She’s Geeky – Show and Tell Your Dev Env session

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Liz Henry

We had a session to talk about what tools, languages, and platforms we use for software and web development. I started off by trying to list all the tools I use for work for development. Then other people stood up … finish reading She’s Geeky – Show and Tell Your Dev Env session

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Cleaning up urls with awk

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Liz Henry

Here’s my stupid awk trick of the day: using the field separator option to mess with URLs. I spent something like an hour trying to write regular expressions and then reading other people’s solutions to cleaning up urls from log … finish reading Cleaning up urls with awk

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Upgrading Drupal 4.7 to 5.14

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Liz Henry

I have been working on upgrading a site from Drupal 4.7, which is unsupported, to Drupal 5.14. I am somewhat familiar with Drupal as a blogger, user, and administrator, but wasn’t sure what it would take to upgrade a large … finish reading Upgrading Drupal 4.7 to 5.14

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Growing a Language

Posted on November 26, 2008 by Liz Henry

I watched Guy Steele’s 1998 talk Growing a Language last night. At the opening description and definition of “man” and “woman” I bristled up and wondered for quite some time if there would be a point to opening with gender … finish reading Growing a Language

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Lost my mind in PHP

Posted on November 23, 2008 by Liz Henry

The last few days I went a little nuts thinking about PHP and rewriting a very horrible messy script. I’d write something, make it work, write a little more, break the first bit, go back to look at the first … finish reading Lost my mind in PHP

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De.licio.us API and SimpleXML

Posted on November 12, 2008 by Liz Henry

I spent some time today looking at the de.licio.us API and writing bits of php with SimpleXML. Both of them are very easy and clear to use. I tried a bunch of the examples in the de.licio.us api docs to … finish reading De.licio.us API and SimpleXML

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Looking at Apache server logs

Posted on November 7, 2008 by Liz Henry

I poked around with Apache log files today, looking at the log file formats and thinking of ways to look at the data. While a nice log parsing tool like AWStat or maybe a slick one like Mint would be … finish reading Looking at Apache server logs

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