Thematic featured images

By docwhat | Published: 2010-08-31
Example of Featured Image

I was wondering what the “Featured Images” box was when creating new posts and discovered that it’s a handy way to add images to a post. It auto resizes, crops (if you want), and can make it just “work” in your layout. The only drawback I’ve seen is I can’t use urls for the image.

Unfortunately, the Thematic theme doesn’t have out-of-the-box support for it.

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Setting up CEDET/ECB for Aquamacs

By docwhat | Published: 2010-08-30

Aquamacs 2.1 is now out.

The new 2.x series no longer requires the Dvorak hack I posted about earlier (yay!)

2.1 has a nice new mechanism for plugins, so here are instructions for making CEDET and ECB work with Aquamacs.

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bash: Checking a port number

By docwhat | Published: 2010-07-16

Image by Manfred Heyde.

Ever needed to check if a given port number is valid in bash? It’s harder than it looks because if you accept any input from the user, you can’t use declare -i since it spews errors and aborts functions if the input is malformed.

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IAT on Cygwin

By docwhat | Published: 2010-07-03

Image by Tjeerd Wiersma

For those that use Cygwin on Windows, Mike Hostetler has a post detailing how to use Cygwin editors with It’s All Text!
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English in IIS thread

By docwhat | Published: 2010-06-14

Peter noticed today that IIS has an error in the English for one of its dialog boxes. We immediately searched for it and found this bizarre thread.

It’s hard to read it in its original form, so I have re-organized it here and saved it for posterity.

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