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Once again I’ve updated the phpdoc.vim plugin which is an improved version from the one found at vim.org. I finally got around to give it it’s on place to exist.
Stuff recently added:
- Don’t interrupt when writing code. The phpdocs get inserted transparently while you’re typing. Automatic insertion is triggered when the ‘{‘ for a class/interface/function are typed or when the ‘;’ of a property is typed.
- Fully document all parameters to functions, with their type and names, default/optional values.
- Flexible way to insert custom tags with whatever content you want.
January 16th, 2008
When it comes to configuring Mediawiki to have very short URLs, according to the Mediawiki documentation it seems the possibilities are endless. It you go through he page, in Austrian we would see it’s like “Kraut und Rüben”, which means something like it’s a mess, unordered, crowded.
My simple goal was: have the shortest possible article URLs, ideally http://server/Article and not http://server/dir/index.php/Article.
With a simple .htaccess file and some modification to the LocalSettings.php I was able to get it working:
.htaccess File:
RewriteEngine On
# Backward compatibility for old installation
RewriteRule ^wiki/index.php/(.*) http://intranet.netcare.at/$1 [R=301]
# Only rewrite uppercase Words because they signal the title for the pages to
# handle. Everything in lowercase is expected to be "internal"
RewriteRule ^([A-Z].*) index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]
LocalSettings.php changes:
$wgScriptPath = "";
$wgScript = "/";
$wgArticlePath = "/$1";
This is simply a “it works for me” scenario. I did some testing and it seemed everything is working fine. However I also think the way I use Mediawiki just scratches the surfaces. We’ll see if it works out.
August 10th, 2007
Take a quick look at the navigation at webedition.de. The first thing I thought this was a poll. My brain, before I read what is there, signalled me that this was a poll and it wants that I choose one of them. Before I thought a second time I already clicked one of them (interestingly it was “Produkt kaufen”) just to know what happens. After I saw the same poll on the next page again I realized this was the navigation.
Of course I know this is supposed to be the navigation. But neverthless my brain first signalled me that this was a poll, that I need to choose one of them. I consider this pretty bad usability, sacrificed for the design.
May 7th, 2006
Tobias Schlitt has put together some really useful information how to enhance vim to you can get more productive with vim. Don’t miss his articles:
For convenience he also provides his .vimrc configuration file.
I wonder if he had spotted the vim phpdoc plugin yet.
July 26th, 2005
If you wonder why suddenly your CHM files stopped working which you’ve placed on network shares, here may be your answer: Microsoft decided to change some internal behaviours with one of their latest updates for (nearly all versions of) Windows. Thanks.
July 18th, 2005
LUA – Least-Privilege User Account – for the next Windows version, Longhorn. I’m speechless. I mean, yes. Yes, damn, they were quick with realizing that this was necessary after all. Pioneers on that front they are.
They only got beaten by Unix by a few decades.
You see, under unix you can accidenteley shoot yourself in the foot, but you can’t shoot accidenteley other people feet. I acknowledge that Windows delivers a finer grained permission model. But I also believe that this is one of its biggest failing. KISS.
April 9th, 2005
Such problems exactly start to when you really don’t need them. A new year, new projects, emails are tumbling in .. and suddenly, they stop. No emails. What’s up with out Microsoft Exchange Server?
A day later things are not more clearer than what the administration companies says. They tried everything they have read in knowledge bases. Tried newsgroups. Spent hours of hours installing fixes, packs and whatnot. Countless reboots. No change.
Then suddently, no one knows why, the services seemed to work like in old days. But this only lasted for a day. The next day, it began from the start.
A more technical in-depth description of the current status:
- Emails are accepted by the server and are delivered to the users.
- Users on their workstation fire up Outlook but don’t see any new emails.
- Accessing emails with OWA is not possible, but the users see them in their listing.
- Sending emails is no problem.
Some more wierdness: it does not apply to all users.
An interesting finding: through the properties of the Inbox the permissions are set to standard with no rights and anonymous, with no rights, too. However, accessing older emails in the inbox folder is possible. Just new ones are now shown.
I’ll update this article as I get new information. If you’ve any hints, feel free to post them (but note that I’m not in charge of administration).
Status 21.01.2005:
Still to change, emails are not working properly. Afaik a “call to microsoft” has been done, but not yet sure what this means to us. A proposed plan suggested that on coming monday we will export all our emails from the exchange server.
Status 24.0.1.2005:
Our administration company solved the problem by:
- Letting everyone export all their emails to a local PST
- nformation from all Exchange accounts
- Have (a day later) everyone copy all folders from the PST back to the exchange
Unfortunately all contacts and calendar entries have been lost. At least receiving email works again. The cause for this wierd problem has never been found.
January 13th, 2005