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 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…
My first WordPress plugin uploaded for review
Short report on the upload of my WordPress plugin WP Tournament Registration for review.
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.
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…
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…
Ein Autograph des Spielleiters Strauch von Tempo Göttingen 1961
Über den Eintrag des Spielleiters Strauch vom SC Tempo Göttingen in einem Buch, das als Preis in der Göttinger Stadtmeisterschaft im Schach 1961 vergeben wurde.
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.
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…