If you are a Perl professional and you feel that the way you and your co-workers use Perl is not entirely flawless, Tim Bunce’s slides about Perl myths are a must-read for you.
I stumbled over it, read the first few pages and greedily slurped it to the end. These slides contain some nice-to-know Perl details [...]

I am currently unable to use the visual editor in wordpress. I first ran into the problem in my default browser, which happens to be Firefox. After a few futile attempts to load the editor, I gave IE a try. It didn’t load either, but I discovered a funny link at the bottom of the [...]

A few weeks ago I joined Goodreads. A few days ago I installed a wordpress plugin that displays three of the books on my ‘currentl reading’ shelf. This plugin uses the RSS features delivered with wordpress. It fetches the feed belonging to the shelf, grabs the first three items and displays them in my sidebar.
I [...]

Once upon a time, I created two VMware images at work, one based on Windows XP, the other based on Debian. I installed some versions of IE in the virtual Windows box and some versions of Firefox in both boxes. This was supposed to be a test bed for new features on our products written [...]

And I don’t need no water.
I just registered for a FeedBurner account and burned my entries and comments feeds. Integration into wordpress is done with FeedSmith. The hint to burn my feeds using this plugin originated from the author of solution-box, who hopefully comes up soon with some earthshaking technical, web-related screencasts.

My installation of wordpress was kind of old. The version that I would have been able to install via apt-get was, guess what, even older. So I wondered if there was a way of upgrading wordpress a little more convenient than fetching an archive, unpacking it and copying files over. Here’s what I found.
Installing/Updating WordPress [...]

Here’s a great book for getting started with extreme programming: Extreme Programming Pocket Guide. The “supports” and “requires” lists after each practice are nice, but I would have prefered a dependency graph, especially for the “requires” part. Since I found none on the web, I created one myself.

Sometimes there are large amounts of content trapped in tiny container elements. Working with such containers implies some serious scrolling which can be quite annoying.
Since these containers may be of any kind (e.g., div, p, td, iframe) there is no sufficient way of determining if an occurrence of such an element actually serves as a [...]