11 favourite words in the english language
I have been (re)reading "Sex, Drugs, Einstein and Elves" by Clifford Pickover. Awesome book. In one of the chapters is a list of various authors' favorite words, so I thought I would come up with my own.
Presenting: the 11 favorite words of Jonnay
- Vaudeville
- Pitching woo
- Sacrosanct
- Deluge
- Salsa
- Confabulation
- Vernacular
- Milieu
- Remiss
- Recalcitrant
- Resplendent
Using Boost with Drupal. Performance goooodnes
Having successfully deploying a reasonably high traffic Drupal website, I can tell you that the boost module is like mana from heaven.
The only issue that I have found with the boost module is when you have blocks that update data in real time, or are interactive, a good example being the poll module. This can be over-come by writing a custom module that pulls in the content via AJAX. This isn't particularly difficult to do. I bet that it could be fairly easily generalized, and if I had mounds of spare time, I would do exactly that.
Importing a drupal view programmatically
If you need to import a drupal view programmatically, it is fairly simple:
include_once(drupal_get_path('module', 'views') .'/views.module');
include_once(drupal_get_path('module', 'views') .'/includes/view.inc');
include_once(drupal_get_path('module', 'views') .'/includes/cache.inc') ;
include_once(drupal_get_path('module', 'views') .'/includes/convert.inc');
/* ... insert import code here */
views1_import($view);
$view->save();
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SimpleXML Vs. SXML
I had a chance to really play with PHPs native XML support.
It's interesting, but a little leaky in its abstraction. I had to futz around with the options to make it recognize CDATA sections, which involved passing options to libxml.
$xml = simplexml_load_file($file, 'SimpleXMLElement', LIBXML_NOCDATA);
Additionally, trying to serialize and unserialize SimpleXML objects is a dirty, hacky job. I didn't even bother trying to tackle that (though others have). In Short, native support for xml, isn't quite native inside of PHP.
Read moreEmacs Tramp Hangs on Mac OS X when doing a sudo
I just found this bit of weirdness, and I am not necessarily the only one either.
Whenever using Tramp to open a file with the /sudo::/ syntax, it would hang for a long time. Sometimes not even being responsive to Ctrl-G. Looking at the process tree, I noticed that there was a stuck ping process.
This seemed to be because of the ecb-ping-options variable. It was set to
("HOST")If that is switched to
("-c 2" "HOST")instead, then everything should work.
Read moreAlchemy Menu
- ぜんぶ
- 全部 - All Recipies
- ぶき
- 武器 - Weapons
- ぼうぐ
- 防具 - (Protector)
- アクセサリー
- Accesories
- どうぐ
- 道具 - Tools
Tattoo
Here is the tattoo I got on Thursday.
It itches right now, and is peeling. It took about an hour to do, I designed it, and it was expertly inked by Vince at Tiki Town [facebook fan page] [map]
Listening to "The Most Unwanted Music" and LOVING it. Definately one of the 200 in the world that like this.
jonnay: Listening to "The Most Unwanted Music" and LOVING it. Definately one of the 200 in the world that like this.
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Listening to "The Most Unwanted Music" and LOVING it. Definately one of the 200 in the world that like this.
Okay, Karmic network issues delt with by switching to wicd. Yay Ubuntu! When you suck, all it takes is a bit of research to stop sucking!
jonnay: Okay, Karmic network issues delt with by switching to wicd. Yay Ubuntu! When you suck, all it takes is a bit of research to stop sucking!
@erinc That was an awesmoe halloween sweet gothic lolita costume. IT TOALLY RULES!
jonnay: @erinc That was an awesmoe halloween sweet gothic lolita costume. IT TOALLY RULES!
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@erinc That was an awesmoe halloween sweet gothic lolita costume. IT TOALLY RULES!