Archive for the 'The Web' Category

Intelligent FTP upload with LFTP

2005-02-14 17:36

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. My first attempt was a script using ncftpput, but it always uploads the whole site.
I wanted [...]

In the lowercase “f”

2004-12-16 23:03

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

friend-of-a-friend

2004-11-04 23:03

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 it is just another geek thing — but I couldn’t resist and generated my own FOAF [...]

Creating a favicon.ico file with The Gimp

2004-08-18 21:26

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 is said to have problems with transparency
xpm2wico is not available as a Fink package
png2ico did the trick [...]

Choosing a weblog software

2004-08-16 18:28

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.