Last week I had one of those “quick hack that works for years” finally reach its half life, with the result being a few hours with a blank homepage. Today’s article is going to be a pilgrimage through the various parts of WordPress I had to touch to fix this The Right way. “The Right Way” is, of course, a [...]
astormBook: XML by Example Author: Benoit Marchal An XML book I found much more approachable than the previously mentioned Professional XML. I recall this book being the one where XSL clicked into place for me, and also where I started to learn about DTDs and XML schemas. I’ve always had a general “hey, this one was helpful” [...]
astormBook: Professional XML By: Didier Martin, Mark Birbeck, Michael Kay, Brian Loesgen, Jon Pinnock, Steven Livingston, Peter Stark, Kevin Williams, Richard Anderson, Stephen Mohr, David Baliles, Bruce Peat, Nikola Ozu Wrox was definitely one of those imprints that seemed to be serving the customer, possibly mythical, who needed to learn [...]
astormI need a quick “non-quickies” post to unjam a page generation issue with this website so why not use it as an excuse to talk about how I create this website? I have a WordPress install that runs locally on my computer. Once a day I use a command line script to generate a full static site from this system and then rsync those [...]
astormThis entry is part 14 of 14 in the series A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books. Earlier posts include A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books, Cocoa Programming for Max OS X Second Edition, Danny Goodman's AppleScript™ Handbook, Database Processing, Web Design on a Shoestring, Designing with Web Standards, [...]
astormThis entry is part 13 of 14 in the series A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books. Earlier posts include A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books, Cocoa Programming for Max OS X Second Edition, Danny Goodman's AppleScript™ Handbook, Database Processing, Web Design on a Shoestring, Designing with Web Standards, [...]
astormThis entry is part 12 of 14 in the series A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books. Earlier posts include A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books, Cocoa Programming for Max OS X Second Edition, Danny Goodman's AppleScript™ Handbook, Database Processing, Web Design on a Shoestring, Designing with Web Standards, [...]
astormThis entry is part 11 of 14 in the series A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books. Earlier posts include A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books, Cocoa Programming for Max OS X Second Edition, Danny Goodman's AppleScript™ Handbook, Database Processing, Web Design on a Shoestring, Designing with Web Standards, [...]
astormThis entry is part 10 of 14 in the series A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books. Earlier posts include A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books, Cocoa Programming for Max OS X Second Edition, Danny Goodman's AppleScript™ Handbook, Database Processing, Web Design on a Shoestring, Designing with Web Standards, [...]
astormThis entry is part 9 of 14 in the series A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books. Earlier posts include A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books, Cocoa Programming for Max OS X Second Edition, Danny Goodman's AppleScript™ Handbook, Database Processing, Web Design on a Shoestring, Designing with Web Standards, [...]
astormThis entry is part 8 of 14 in the series A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books. Earlier posts include A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books, Cocoa Programming for Max OS X Second Edition, Danny Goodman's AppleScript™ Handbook, Database Processing, Web Design on a Shoestring, Designing with Web Standards, and [...]
astormThis entry is part 7 of 14 in the series A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books. Earlier posts include A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books, Cocoa Programming for Max OS X Second Edition, Danny Goodman's AppleScript™ Handbook, Database Processing, Web Design on a Shoestring, and Designing with Web Standards. [...]
astormThis entry is part 6 of 14 in the series A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books. Earlier posts include A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books, Cocoa Programming for Max OS X Second Edition, Danny Goodman's AppleScript™ Handbook, Database Processing, and Web Design on a Shoestring. Later posts include Learning [...]
astormThis entry is part 5 of 14 in the series A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books. Earlier posts include A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books, Cocoa Programming for Max OS X Second Edition, Danny Goodman's AppleScript™ Handbook, and Database Processing. Later posts include Designing with Web Standards, Learning [...]
astormThis entry is part 4 of 14 in the series A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books. Earlier posts include A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books, Cocoa Programming for Max OS X Second Edition, and Danny Goodman's AppleScript™ Handbook. Later posts include Web Design on a Shoestring, Designing with Web Standards, [...]
astormThis entry is part 3 of 14 in the series A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books. Earlier posts include A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books, and Cocoa Programming for Max OS X Second Edition. Later posts include Database Processing, Web Design on a Shoestring, Designing with Web Standards, Learning Java, [...]
astormThis entry is part 2 of 14 in the series A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books. Earlier posts include A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books. Later posts include Danny Goodman's AppleScript™ Handbook, Database Processing, Web Design on a Shoestring, Designing with Web Standards, Learning Java, DocBook 5: The [...]
astormThis entry is part 1 of 14 in the series A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books. Later posts include Cocoa Programming for Max OS X Second Edition, Danny Goodman's AppleScript™ Handbook, Database Processing, Web Design on a Shoestring, Designing with Web Standards, Learning Java, DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide, PDF Hacks, [...]
astormA Stack Overflow self-answer, where I discover that the callback based handlers module.exports = function(event, context, callback) { //.. callback(null, 'my response') } do not return immediately upon calling the callback. In fact, the callback has nothing to do with when these functions will return. When AWS Lambda runs your function [...]
astormThe Amazon AWS Lambda service allows you to execute a function without worrying about the server your code runs on. However, there’s still “a server” running your code. Amazon doesn’t share or promise many details of what this server is or how it works (VMs, containers, some proprietary software, etc). For most [...]
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