Raptor time. Can it get any better?
It’s time.
dinosaurs
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Mar 052012
Mar 042012
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!
data, government, philosophy
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Feb 262012
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 behind a lot of the more open stuff: http://opendata.socrata.com/ A few interesting visualizations of […]
Feb 172012
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 do it to java saved my bacon: it turns out that making a very […]
Feb 152012
Why don’t any of the host configuration checking tools work on the mac? CIS, Bastille, ossec (they don’t do conf checking on mac, plus they claim to check CIS compliance on other platforms and don’t), etc. Just want something simple to run that would check the basics, try to crack a password or two, show SUIDs, file permissions… don’t make me have to write it myself ;(