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Old School House Rules Link Collection
The OSR house rule wiki Links To Wisdom arose out of The Jovial Priest’s post The future of OSR blogging... where he lamented the lack of memory in the blogosphere. Jeff Rients then suggested a wiki in...
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Making It Easy To Add Links To Wisdom
Remember the wiki Links To Wisdom? It’s where people can add links to their favorite old school D&D house rules, hopefully adding some sort of memory to our little corner of the blogosphere.As the...
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Oddmuse, Venus and Perl
I’ve been working on a submission form for the Old School RPG Planet. Today I added another little feature. This is how I like to develop code. No time pressure. One little step at a time. Keep...
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Old School D&D Monsters Online
Remember Links to Wisdom? At the time, a blog post had caught my attention and I ended up creating a wiki with a tiny bit of software around it in order to try and help solve the problem.Well, it...
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Network Traffic
Back in 2009 I wondered about network traffic. Decided to take another look. Yesterday’s log file via bot-analyze:aschroeder@thinkmo:~$ bot-analyze < logs/access.log.1 | head...
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Campaign Wikis
Recently Calithena of Fight On asked on Dragonsfoot: Do any of you have your campaigns on line?I said:Ymir’s Call– I play every other Monday evening in a Barbarians of Lemuria campaign with DM Florian....
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How Emacs Wiki Works
(TL;DR: People that don’t like the wiki as it is ought look at the official Emacs documentation instead. I wrote this so that I’d have something to link to in the future. This post was inspired by...
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Stupid Leeches
By chance, I run my leech-detector script and find the following:aschroeder@thinkmo:~$ leech-detector < logs/access.log | head IP Number hits bandw. hits% interv. status code distrib. 184.82.236.206...
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Gists on Emacs Wiki
I just read a rant about Emacs Wiki and it’s alternative: The Wikemacs Experiment: 300 Days Later. Check out How Emacs Wiki Works for some context from my point of view. Anyway, the anonymous author...
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Security of Code Downloaded from Online Sources
In the anonymous rant The Wikemacs Experiment: 300 Days Later, the author claims “The biggest problem is that it is insecure. […] Anyone can edit any of the pages that contain Elisp code.” The same...
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Comments on this Wiki Blog
I’ve done a few changes. Let’s see whether it works out.when viewing ordinary pages, previous comments and the comment form are shown← this is what I wanted to addpeople who follow the RSS feeds will...
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Anonymizing the Oddmuse log files
I’ve just implemented a new non-optional Oddmuse feature. I’m removing all hostnames and IP numbers of older log entries. The log entries older than 90 days are stored in a different log file in order...
View ArticleLearning How To Write A Wiki Using Python
RadomirDopieralski wrote a Sample Wiki Engine in Python that provides the basic infrastructure: Retrieving and editing pages. [1]His code sidesteps all the important design decisions. The pages are not...
View ArticleTagging
One of my players is interested in the RSS feed for all the pages tagged RPG but not in pages tagged Kitsunemori. I assume there are other such tricky requirements. How should I handle it?Add terms to...
View ArticleRetagging
I wrote a little script called retag modelled on Oddmuse:wikicopy that allows me to add and remove tags. So the following line will add the tag MondayGroup to all pages tagged Kitsunemori,...
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ClayShirky is still alive! He wrote a book, too – Here Comes Everybody. And recently I found a link pointing to an article on the book’s blog, and the article was a speech transcript, and in it he has...
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Corporate Wikis
There was a lot of talk about corporate wikis, measuring corporate wiki participation, and some wikis “competing” for use in the corporate area.Oddmuse is definitely not a “corporate wiki” in this...
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Apache Rewrite Adds Slashes
Hm… I have an Apache Rewrite problem. Does anybody understand the following? What I wanted to was this:If somebody visits http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/Foo the request is rewritten to...
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YSlow
JanneJalkanen suggests that web developers should use YSlow for Firebug to develop fast web applications.I did that, and changed my htdocs/.htaccess file as follows:ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault...
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Collaboration
Slightly edited from a conversation on IRC:One of the problems is working with a particular subset of users collaboratively. Their model of collaboration is: (a) everyone’s in a room (b) everyone takes...
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