Category Archives: The Web

Intelligent FTP upload with LFTP

Posted on 2005-02-14 by

Ever since I started my blog, I was looking for a neat solution to upload my internet pages whenever Nanoblogger updates the local copy. I didn’t want just a recursive upload, because some directories (e.g. data) shouldn’t be publicly accessible. … Continue reading →

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In the lowercase "f"

Posted on 2004-12-16 by

The Firefox New York Times Ad is finally out (PDF or a smaller PNG); it took much longer than the German ad in the FAZ

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friend-of-a-friend

Posted on 2004-11-04 by

While reading an interview with Tim Berners-Lee concerning the Semantic Web, I stumbled for the second time in a couple of days over the friend of a friend project FOAF. I don’t know if FOAF has a future or if … Continue reading →

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Creating a favicon.ico file with The Gimp

Posted on 2004-08-18 by

Because Gimp 2.0 doesn’t support the Windows icon format yet, I looked for another way to create a favicon.ico file with Gimp running under Mac OS X. The Web recommends at least three different conversion tools for this task: ppmtowinicon … Continue reading →

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Choosing a weblog software

Posted on 2004-08-16 by

I have evaluated a weblog software for a server without fancy options like CGI, Perl or PHP. I found BlogMax, Nanoblogger and Thingamablog and chose Nanoblogger for its Spring Theme and because it stores the entries in flat files.

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