• and now… custom fields

    Useful little things.  Beat on that old perl script and added support… a few lines of code, a lot of beating my head against the wall, but I didn’t see any other perl solutions. [attachments] Attachments wordpress-upload-post (ERROR)

  • It’s time.

    Raptor time.     Can it get any better?

  • XML visualization done right

    5 lines… display arbitrary XML trees on a web page… nice.   After fighting with so many others, a breath of fresh air. <link rel=’stylesheet’ type=’text/css’ href=’xmltree.css’ /> <script src=’https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.4/jquery.js’></script> <script src=’xmltree.js’></script> <script>$(function() { new XMLTree({fpath: ‘/ness.xml’, container: ‘#tree’, startCollapsed: true}); });</script> <div id=’tree’></div> Courtesy of  http://www.mitya.co.uk/scripts/XML-Tree—visualise-and-traverse-your-XML-186  

  • go .gov!

    In 2009 the US government (thanks to Obama) did a remarkable thing by releasing a ton (perhaps a Library of Congress worth of tons) of data: http://explore.data.gov/ Much of the data is in CSV/JSON/XLS/etc formats.  The Seattle gov has done similar local data efforts, much through the same underlying architecture: http://data.seattle.gov/ Socrata seems to be…

  • command line perl posting to WP

    After looking at about a zillion different options I ended up with Leo Charre’s WordPress CLI CPAN package for uploading posts… and after a bit of tinkering got it to work with 3.x WP.  However… it didn’t support tags, which I really needed for the project I’m working on.   This handy pointer to how to…