Disorder, in a tall magician's hat
This is a repost from the PERICLES project blog. As with the previous repost, I just like to keep a copy of the things I write in my own little world. How much metadata is too much (and how little Continue reading Repost: DPC, Belfast
This post originally appeared on the PERICLES blog. I’m reposting it here in my own little world, because I like to keep my notes in one place: For the last four years, NASA have staged yearly Space Apps Hackathons as Continue reading Repost – Space Apps hackathon
Today it occurred to me that a Linux command-line player for 8Tracks.com would be good to have. I’m pretty slow on the uptake here, since 8tracks has been around since 2008, but better late than never. I went looking for Continue reading 8tracks on the Linux command line
Generate missing permalinks for flatfiled wordpress ls 201*/*/*/*/index.html| while read line; do indexname=`grep ‘rel=”bookmark”‘ $line| sed ‘s/<h2><a href=”..\/..\/..\/..\///g’|sed ‘s/” rel=”bookmark” title=”.*//’| sed ‘s/%3Fp/\?/’`; echo “<html><head><title>Redirect</title><META http-equiv=\”refresh\” content=\”0;$line\”></head><body>Redirect to <a href=\”$line\”>$indexname</a></body></html>” > $indexname ; done Fix links in flatfiled doc Continue reading Handy one-liners
Being the sort of character who enjoys watching monsters snacking on the general public, clanging around in air vents and generally spreading alarm and despondency, I’ve been looking forward to watching Helix (Channel 5, UK; SyFy, USA). For those who Continue reading Helix
Twitter: hate it or loathe it,it’s tough to find a scholarly event these days that doesn’t insist on the importance of #unexpressivehashtags and @yourtwitterid on your #namebadge. I don’t hate Twitter: it’s a nice source of research data. But I’m Continue reading In praise of tircd
If one byte is the thickness of a single coat of paint (0.03cm) then… One kibibyte: laptop screen size, 14 in /35cm One mebibyte: height of revolving restaurant on CN tower, Toronto, 360 m One gibibyte: distance from London Heathrow Continue reading Visualising scale: from bytes to zebibytes on a linear distance scale
Whilst UKOLN’s old blogs will remain available on one level or another, I have archived the UKOLNdev blog here. http://www.emmatonkin.com/ukolndev/: Digital Library Notes, 2009-2013 New material will probably end up on my current blog. I’m not going to be blogging Continue reading The UKOLNdev archives
What is Gadgeteer? In short, Gadgeteer is Microsoft’s electronics prototyping toolkit. Think Arduino but higher-specced and more expensive, or Raspberry Pi with more plug n’play. It’s based on .NET (of course) and Visual Studio express edition (naturally). You will need Continue reading Learning Gadgeteer
Exporting journals from OJS: tips and a pitfall OJS offers various approaches for export; database dump and zip of config files, otherwise known as the direct and brutal approach, or an XML export approach. Checklist for an OJS move Step Continue reading OJS Journal Migration