Biber screenshot MWE sortlocale
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Sort orders of Latin-script languages in biblatex-Biber

When sorting bibliographies with Biber, often this warning occurs: Biber.pm:4174> INFO – No sort tailoring available for locale ‘de_DE’ Since the status is INFO only it is nothing fatal. And in fact it only tells that standard sorting order was applied because no individual scheme could be found for the specified locale. This is perfectly…

WP Tournament Registration
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WP Tournament Registration finally released

WP Tournament Registration is my first WordPress plugin to be published in the official WordPress repository. It provides a registration form mainly intended for hobby sport events. Thus it is not planned to provide interfaces to commercial ticketing systems but easy data editing and highly configurable download formats. It was originally developed for the 2020…

Kachel Rezension Klammt © 2020 DGUF
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Rezension von biblatex-archaeology [v2.2] in den „Archäologischen Informationen“

Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte (DGUF) hat in ihrer Verbandszeitschrift Archäologische Informationen im 51. Jahr ihres Bestehens erstmals eine Softwarerezension abgedruckt. Und man glaubt es kaum, sie betrifft mein biblatex-archaeology Paket. Die Besprechung von Anne Klammt, Forschungsleiterin für digitale Geisteswissenschaften am Deutschen Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris, fällt recht wohlwollend aus. Early View…

Converting chess diagrams to machine readable FEN with Chessify
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Converting chess diagrams to machine readable FEN with Chessify

Chessify is a multi-service chess platform. Since I am not registered with I cannot say much about it. But a single feature of their phone app is really amazing: it allows to take photos of chess diagrams (printed or screen) and converts them into FEN (Forsyth-Edwards-Notation). This is a standard for machine readable description of…

Privatkopien von Webseiten mit WebScrapBook (Installation und Import unter Windows)
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Privatkopien von Webseiten mit WebScrapBook (Installation und Import unter Windows)

In meinem viel gelesenen Leitfaden zum Archivieren von Webseiten hatte ich das Firefoxplugin ScrapBook X zum Anfertigen von Privatkopien auf dem heimischen Rechner empfohlen. Das ging immer nur mit Firefox und seit geraumer Zeit nur noch mit dessen Fork Palemoon, weil das Mutterprogramm die XUL-Schnittstelle abgestellt hatte. Der Nachfolger WebscrapBook desselben Entwicklers (Danny Lin) steckte…

How to date back media uploads in WordPress?

How to date back media uploads in WordPress?

WordPress’ media library is organized as a sequence of /year/month folders out of box. The question how to upload media files in past folders arises frequently, although this is rarely necessary. Why not simply doing HTTP status 301 redirections when converting sites to WordPress? Then it is of no importance to which folder the redirection…