Category: Technology

October 1, 2020

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 championship of my local chess...

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September 11, 2020

My first WordPress plugin uploaded for review

Short report on the upload of my WordPress plugin WP Tournament Registration for review.

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July 18, 2020

biblatex-archaeology [v2.2] selected for long-term archival in the GitHub Arctic Code Vault

My LaTeΧ package biblatex-archaeology [v2.2] was selected for very-long-term archival in the GitHub Arctic Code Vault on Spitsbergen.

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July 13, 2020

archive.pl v2.1 released

I have released a new version of my Perl script archive.pl. Besides some minor enhancements and corrections it is now capable to operate the Internet Archive web submission interface through a proxy server. This is to circumvent the submission limit of 15 URLs per minute and IP by employing a proxy server that is capable of rotating IPs like fi....

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July 5, 2020

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 bei der DGUF Druckfassung im...

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May 11, 2020

Discontinued WordPress plugin ‘Post Archival in the Internet Archive’ increases the TTFB significantly

The discontinued WordPress plugin ‘Post Archival in the Internet Archive’ leads to a massive increase of TTFB. Learn how to fix it.

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April 30, 2020

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 chess positions. PGN employs it...

Chess/Games History/Review/Software Comment: 1

April 28, 2020

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 damals noch ziemlich in den...

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April 27, 2020

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 points. If you would do...

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March 26, 2020

archive.pl 2.0 released

Today I finally released the latest build of my archive.pl script. Due to its massive changes I decided to increase the main version, although there is no incompatibility to prior version calls. The main purpose of archive.pl is to store sets of URLs in the Internet Archive and store an index of them as Atom feed, HTML page or WordPress...

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