Blogs

I recently wanted to connect to my works Cisco VPN network from my home Ubuntu PC. As it turned out this is very straightforward.

I have recently been working with cookies from JavaScript and started looking for a Firefox extension to help. I knew there would be plenty, so I started to try a couple. Then I stumbled on Firecookie and the search was over!

The other day I got tripped up by the way JavaScript assigns variables. In many languages, assigning a variable to another variable creates a copy of the existing variable. If you wanted to make the new variable a reference to the existing variable, you would have to explicitly define that. For example, in Perl you can do the following:

I have knocked up a small add on for Foswiki that makes it easy to add social bookmarking and news links to a Foswiki page. It is called the SocialBookmarkingAddOn and is available at http://foswiki.org/Extensions/SocialBookmarkingAddOn. It relies on no other extensions and currently supports the following five sites:

Earlier this week a new version of the JavaScript Syntax Highlighter by Alex Gorbatchev was released. This 2.0 version is a bit thin on new features and supported languages but does have a new home and, significantly, has been released as donationware.

When you follow links on the internet, your browser will send a referral URL to the server to let it know where it has came from. This can often be useful to the server administrators, as you can use these to analyse how visitors are finding your site or a particular page.

Today Foswiki 1.0 has been released. Foswiki is an enterprise wiki and was started as a fork from TWiki back in October 2008¹.

On the 27 October the TWiki community was split and a fork was started with the temporary name of NextWiki. Although I don’t know all the politics behind this, it seems there has been friction between the community and TWIKI.NET for a long time. There are many other blogs and news pages that summarises the fork and some are linked at the bottom of this post.