Archive for September, 2006

Setting a domain name to point to your wiki
Saturday, September 16th, 2006

If you would like to point a domain name to your wiki on editthis.info, set the cname to editthis.info and then post a comment here with your email address, the domain name, and the url for your wiki.
None of this will will appear as a comment since I will not approve any comments to this […]

iTerm emacs rendering issues on Intel Mac
Friday, September 15th, 2006

If you have problems with emacs in iterm on an intel mac rendering which line you are on, making some lines and text invisible, or just in general not looking right, then the command line type:
TERM=xterm-color
then try running emacs. If that fixes the problem, add that line to your .bashrc or .tcshrc (or both) […]

Getting around php globals being turned off
Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Many servers have globals turned off. If you would like to get around this, just include the following script:
set_vars.php
Be sure to read up on some of the security issues regarding register globals before using this.

Using Resizeable Textarea on newer versions of Firefox
Monday, September 11th, 2006

Resizeable textarea is one of those really useful firefox add ons that once you start to use it, you really can’t live without it. Basically those tiny text areas on web sites become scaleable so you can easily see what you are writing.
The problem is that the extension which is available here is only usable […]

file upload types
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

Some new upload types are now allowed on editthis.info:
Here is the current list:
‘png’, ‘jpg’, ‘jpeg’, ‘ogg’,’doc’,’xls’,’ppt’,’mp3′,
’sxc’,’pdf’, ‘gif’, ’swf’, ‘mpg’, ‘mpeg’, ‘avi’, ‘mov’, ‘pdf’, ‘ps’, ‘tar.gz’,
‘gz’

Ad locations on editthis.info
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

I am currently experimenting with editthis’ ad placements. I am randomly placing the ads on the page in a couple locations and with different boarders. This is to test to see how true google’s heatmap is. I suspect that the placement at the bottom of the content is the most effective. Unless I am significantly […]