Category Archives: tech

For being totally awesome and easy to configure and install, building support for SSL, and having a debian package available when I needed it: Dovecot! Congratulations, you’re my open source project of the week!

Why does Thinkgeek hate me so?

Need to look up the error string for an HRESULT code? Here’s some code to do so. #include <comdef.h> CString GetMsgForHresult(HRESULT hr) { CString cs; CString msg = _com_error(hr).ErrorMessage(); cs.Format(_T(“Error 0x%08x: %s”), hr, msg); return cs; }

Page not loading right? Try putting this at the top inside a <?php block… print_r( $_REQUEST); I was having a problem where http://meat.net/2005/11/xml-js-freeze/ was coming up blank. Turns out the following regexp is at fault: RewriteRule ^(.+).xml /index.php?feed=$1 [QSA,L] I’ve … Continue reading →

I’m encountering a weird error where an embedded copy of IE is failing to load XML properly. Here’s the best approximation I have of what we’re doing:

Lots of people have them. I like mine. Check it out. How I did this: Installed PostgreSQL and PostGIS Tried to load data from the City of Chicago Maps SHP file. Discovered the City uses a weird, us-ft based projection. … Continue reading →

m4 quoting examples: define(A,1)dnl define(B,A)dnl define(`A’,2)dnl B should be 1 define(`B’,`A’)dnl A should be 2 B should be 2 define(`B’,“A”)dnl B should be `A’