If you are generating sites with webgen, when you need to add i18n to them, you have to make copies of the pages for each language. I want it something more like gettext. So I end up writing a new tag in webgen to use gettext. It’s working for me, YMMV. I’ve used webgen 0.5.10.
Programacion
27
Jun 09
Density map of anonymous Wikipedia edits
I’ve made a video showing anonymous edits on Wikipedia as a density map grouped by day.
Direct link to the video on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/xrm0/3654611676/
5
Jun 09
Torneos automaticos en elbruto.es
Para automatizar la inscripcion de tu personaje a los torneos de elbruto.es podes usar este script:
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28
Jan 09
flickraw proxy support
I made a small patch to use proxies with flickraw (0.5.1). It uses the environment variable http_proxy or HTTP_PROXY (in that order) to get the proxy settings.
You can see the changes at flickraw-proxy@github.
27
Oct 08
Prototype ajax gotcha
If you are one of those who leave the docs as a last resort, you may find that when doing ajax requests with Prototype all requests except get and post are emulated using post and adding a _method parameter.
The code doing this is in ajax.js:
if (!['get', 'post'].include(this.method)) {
// simulate other verbs over post
params['_method'] = this.method;
this.method = 'post';
}
The documentation about this is here: http://www.prototypejs.org/api/ajax/options
The reason for using _method is because not all browsers support delete / put, according to ticket 289, which is a request to change this behaviour.
22
Oct 08
Inconsistencies with array length in Javascript
What you’d say is the size of [1,2,] in Javascript?
Until last day I’d say 2 without much thinking. But under IE, the size is 3, because of the last comma.
Now, it’s valid to define arrays like this [,,1], [1,,2] or even [1,,]. All of them having 3 elements. But what about this particular case when having a single comma after the last element?.
The definition of the correct behaviour is stated in ECMA-262, section 11.1.4 Array Initialiser, which I didn’t bother to read as I’ve already made my mind and decided this is another IE bug.
The reasons for thinking this is a bug are:
- It’s simpler to generate js code from another language without the need to check if it’s the last element or not and add a comma when needed.
- When leaving a comma after the last element in another languages, for example Ruby, Python or Java, that last comma does not add another ‘undefined’ element to the array (ok, I don’t know how much valid is to compare other languages to js in this aspect, but I like this feature).
Tested on: IE 7, Firefox 3 (linux/win)
17
Oct 07
File Binary Search
I’ve created a small ruby gem for doing binary searches on a file. The gem is named (not surprisingly) BinarySearch RecordSearch
After announcing the gem on Ruby Talk (here is the announcement), I’ve been told there is already a project with the same name (http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-bsearch/), so I renamed it as RecordSearch.
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