Xmarks is currently the only viable solution for synchronizing bookmarks across all web browsers over Internet, including Firefox / Iceweasel, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari. I attempted to setup the Mozilla Sync server, but it is so poorly packaged that it isn’t possible to install it cleanly without big efforts. So the only viable alternative … [Read more…]
This article presents a simple Logtilla log analysis module, log_geoip_stats, which gives the top N client countries, in terms of hits, from web access log files. This module uses the libgeoip-erlang library to get geolocations from clients’ IP addresses. libgeoip-erlang installation Install pre-requisite software: Mercurial, and the GeoIP library. On Debian, those are packages mercurial, … [Read more…]
I have recently released Logtilla, a framework for parsing and analysing web access log files, and showed in a previous article how to use Logtilla with a simple example. One of the most interesting aspects of Logtilla is in the inside. Logtilla demonstrates how to use ASN.1 to communicate between an Erlang program and a … [Read more…]
I have written a small Erlang framework for parsing web access logs, called Logtilla, hosted on GitHub. This framework supports parsing logs in the Common Log Format, or in Apache’s Combined Log Format. Thanks to the use of a C port program to do the parsing, Logtilla is very efficient: it can parse and analyze … [Read more…]
I just found the Open Source Web Design (OSWD) web site, which offers a collection of reusable web designs contributed by many authors. They currently have 1620 web designs, and all those I have seen are very nice! My only concern is about licensing. As stated on the web site, the choice of a license … [Read more…]
Again, yesterday and today we get hits in our server’s log from what looks like a robot with IP address 209.237.230.104: 209.237.230.104 – – [03/Jan/2006:18:44:19 +0900] “GET /~lenglet HTTP/1.0” 301 324 – 209.237.230.104 – – [03/Jan/2006:18:44:20 +0900] “GET /~lenglet/ HTTP/1.0” 200 31782 – 209.237.230.104 – – [03/Jan/2006:18:44:20 +0900] “GET /atom.xml HTTP/1.0” 404 282 – 209.237.230.104 … [Read more…]
Starting from yesterday, I have found many hits in our web server’s logs (four hits every 30 minutes) from a robot at IP address 64.95.116.1. According to whois(1), this address belongs to “Feedster”. This is how I have discovered the existence of the Feedster blog search engine… Special note to the person who registered my web … [Read more…]
The Art. Lebedev Studio are the designers of the wonderful Optimus keyboard and Mus computer mouse, among other things. In addition, they publish many interesting in-depth articles about design on their web site, some articles concerning web design. Article number 83, titled “Secrets of good hypertext”, is about how to add good hyperlinks into web pages. … [Read more…]
To disable a plugin in NanoBlogger version 3.2 one must rename the plugin script, e.g.tidy.sh, to modify its extension (by convention into .off). In the nanoblogger Debian GNU/Linux package, plugins are installed in the/usr/share/nanoblogger/plugins/ directory. In order to enable/disable plugins, it is therefore necessary to rename files in that directory, e.g. for the tidy.sh plugin: … [Read more…]
I have written a script in Bourne Shell (bibtex2article.sh), available under the GNU GPL license, to publish sets of bibliographic entries as NanoBlogger articles from .bib BibTeX files. It generates only XHTML1.1-compliant UTF-8-encoded bibliography articles. This script is based on bibtex2html, iconv and sed.