• 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…

  • what’s up, mac?

    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,…

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