Category: Techy Articles
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Ох уж эти професюбители…
Перепост, боян, “было”, классика, “скокаможна”? Ну… да. Но можно ли более наглядно и красноречиво пояснить ситуацию? Ой, вряд ли. Итак… Вопрос начинающего фотографа на одном из форумов: “Недавно приобрел себе камеру Canon EOS 450D. За месяц успел отфоткать кучу фоток, снимал преимущественно знакомых, кошку и просто людей на улице, а теперь подумываю совместить приятное с […]
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Echoing Parentheses in Windows Batch Files
It’s not just about parentheses, really. It’s about almost anything that a script engine will ruthlessly interpret before executing a command: variable markers (percent signs), redirection symbols, parentheses, double quotes, ampersands… My most common… let’s say, case, is this: Put this in a BATch file, run it, and you’ll end up with a message saying […]
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MacBook Forgetting Wireless Network
Everything had worked just fine until my wireless router waved everyone goodbye and I had to replace it. The model of the new device was slightly different, though, but it did “understand” the settings loaded from backup configuration and — voilà, my mobile devices were back online within minutes. The only thing I adjusted in […]
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Unwanted Escaping Backslashes in WordPress 2.9
After an update of a WordPress installation (2.8.5 to 2.9.1), I noticed that one of the plugins, Stray Random Quotes, stopped working properly: each time I submitted or updated a quote containing apostrophes or quotation marks, it came with escaping backslashes in front of these characters. A couple of teacups later I figured out what […]
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Shoot Yourself in the Foot
Maybe you’ve seen one of those funny quick guides to programming languages based on Bjarne Stroustrup’s “foot shooting”, like the one I found on Michael Thompson’s blog (this is the most complete list of languages I’ve seen so far). Read it first if you haven’t. Here’s my two cents. PHP: You shoot yourself in the […]