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Google Base and Unicode

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

For quite some time, Google Base feeds for some of of my projects were either partially ingested or rejected out of hand with a message "Required attribute missing". I ran xmllint and several online validation tools, and found nothing. But thanks to a Mac blog, I finally figured it out. It ...

WordPress Auto-Update Feature and 1&1 Internet

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Wordpress v2.7 comes with a feature that allows plugins and the program itself to be updated within the web interface. However, I was never able to get it to work until I happen to see the following instructions at the Wordpress Codex: 1and1 (fails running PHP 4, but works with PHP ...

Low Resolution When Printing to PDF on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Recently, after upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) from 8.10 (Intrepid) I noticed that PDF files produced via the "Print" command in various programs (similar to Adobe Distiller) produces very low resolution files and renders all text into images. It turns out to be a bug in CUPS-PDF, which is the ...

Bugzilla

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Bugzilla Originally uploaded by netwizard A creepy crawler recently sighted. Otherwise known as the house centipede or Scutigera coleoptrata.

Some Housekeeping Notes

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

While snowed in, I am taking the time to review some of the old projects and no longer needed domain names on my account. Therefore, here are some changes: 1. SocialPeople.net - a project going back 3 years that lets people search social network profiles is now losing its domain and ...

Converting JSON to XML with Perl

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Recently I had to work with Google AJAX API data which returns in JSON. For my purposes, the data needed to be in XML. While there is a CPAN module called XML2JSON which is designed to do that, for some reason it chokes on my input. Instead, I adopted a ...

Contact Form Disabled

Friday, December 12th, 2008

With the new Wordpress 2.7 upgrade, something has gone haywire with the contact form plugin for the site. As of now, it has been disabled until I figure out a way to get it to work. You can email instead meanwhile to blog /at/ shaftek [dot] org. UPDATE: it has been ...

XmlHttpRequest, Unicode and Firefox

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Just a quick post about a problem I ran into earlier today. It seems that when using Javascript in Firefox 3 with document.implementation.createDocument to create XML documents (for XmlHttpRequest), the encoding stays as ISO-8859-1 instead of Unicode (UTF-8). What it really should be doing, is making the encoding same as ...

The Last Word on Cavalier

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Two more letters came on regarding my Cavalier dispute re: Energy fees: 1. Letter from Cavalier - cavalier.pdf. 2. Reply from the FCC appears below: This is in response to your inquiry, 08-XXXXXXXXXXX.  Detariffing became effective August 1, 2001.  A "tariff" is a legal document that a company files with a regulatory agency ...

More BookChaser tools

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

As a followup to my editions FRBR tool at BookChaser, I added two more tools: a. Cover comparison tool - gets book covers by ISBN from four public services (LibraryThing, OpenLibrary, Amazon and Google). b. Book API comparison tool - gets book information by ISBN from 7 public book APIs (Amazon, Google, ...