Have you ever tried to execute a function at some future time in Erlang? You can, with a timer, but the compiler may complain that the function you’re calling via the timer is unused. Why is that and what can you do?
If you’ve got a Twitter account, and a blog with a lot of content, sharing your posts can be a nice way to help someone out, and drive a little extra traffic to your site. If your site generates an RSS feed, here’s how you can automate the process - for free!
If you’ve got a Twitter account, and a blog with a lot of content, sharing your posts can be a nice way to help someone out, and drive a little extra traffic to your site. Here’s how you can automate the process on your Ghost blog - for free!
I ran into a problem in Erlang yesterday that made me think… is there anyway to implement a property accessor on a record?
I’ve been thinking for awhile now that I wanted to setup a wiki. I wanted something light-weight, with support for uploading images and files. And I wanted to retain control over the data and configuration, as well as encrypt access to it. Here’s how to install DokuWiki on Ubuntu with DigitalOcean.
Ever needed to link directly to one section of a webpage? You can, as long as there’s a header (or another element nearby like a div) with an ID assigned to it. Getting the ID isn’t tough, but it’s a bit of a pain. It doesn’t have to be that hard.
The Ghost API provides access to your blog’s posts, tags, and users. You can get items, as well as create them. Before accessing anything though, you’ll need several pieces of data, depending on your blog settings and whether you’re trying to get data or create it. Let’s see what we can do with it.
The PasswordRandom API provides random values - and not just passwords as the name would seem to suggest. It also generates GUIDs, random numbers, characters, etc.
A table of contents is convenient for visitors, so I wrote a script to generate one for any blog automatically!
The Google Books API provides access to Google Books, which lets you search for any book and, at a bare minimium, see meta data about it. Depending on copyright status, you might also be able to see sample pages or read the entire book. You can also buy books.