Situation: you’ve got WordPress Multi-User setup to host one or more domains in sub-directory mode (as in site.org/blogname), but you want a deeper directory structure than WPMU allows…something like the following examples, perhaps:
site.org/blogname1
site.org/departments/blogname2
site.org/departments/blogname3
site.org/services/blogname3
The association between blog IDs and sub-directory paths is determined in wpmu-settings.php, but the code there knows nothing about nested paths. So a [...]
Posted September 15, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: cms, hack, hacks, information architecture, url path, wordpress, WordPress MU, wpmu. 6 Comments.
Those unwilling to open of their iPhone to adjust the camera focus might take a look at Griffin’s Clarifi, a case with a built-in close-up lens that can slide in our out of place as needed.
Flickr user Meine Ideenecke, meanwhile, has figured out the iPhone camera specifications. He says it’s about 37MM (35MM equivalent), though [...]
Posted May 14, 2009 by Casey
Categories: Photoblog, Technology. Tags: camera, close focus, close up lens, details, focal length, hack, iphone. Be the first one.
Two interesting submissions to the Core77 Business Card Hacks Challenge: earbud speakers and a cord winder.
Posted April 8, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Style, Fashion and Food, Technology. Tags: business cards, earbud, hack, hacks, iphone, ipod. Be the first one.
Using only an LED, plastic light filter and some wires, scientists at UCLA have modded a cellphone into a portable blood tester capable of detecting HIV, malaria and other illnesses.
via Wired.
Posted December 22, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches. Tags: blood analyzer, cellphone, hack, science. Be the first one.
Those kwazy kids will quack anything now. Stream ciphers may never have been expected to be that secure, but Adi Shamir’s cube attack breaks them like so many, um, bits of data.
Posted September 16, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: Adi Shamir, cipher, crack, cube attack, encryption, hack, stream cipher. Be the first one.
From The Register:
Inspired by a recent New York Times piece that questioned whether the Mountain View search monopoly is morphing into a media company — which it is — Finnish blogger Timo Paloheimo promptly unveiled Google minus Google. Key in the word “YouTube,” and the first result is Wikipedia.
Posted September 15, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: google, hack, media, Timo Paloheimo. One Comment.
The Axiotron modbook is cool, I gotta admit, but with so many rumors of a MacBook Touch due this fall, I suspect that potential buyers might be holding their breath. But, on the other hand, those people have been waiting for a Mac tablet since Jobs killed the Newton, and rumors of a tablet are [...]
Posted September 5, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: apple, Axiotron, hack, MacBook Touch, macintosh, modbook, tablet. One Comment.
You’ve got the hardware, you’ve got the skills, go build a multi-touch electronic whiteboard with your Wiimote and a data projector.
Posted January 2, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: electronic whiteboard, hack, hacks, homebrew, multitouch, projector, remote, Wii, Wiimote. One Comment.
WordPress 2.0 introduced some sophisticated HTML inspecting and de-linting courtesy of kses.
kses is an HTML/XHTML filter written in PHP. It removes all unwanted HTML elements and attributes, and it also does several checks on attribute values. kses can be used to avoid Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Buffer Overflows and Denial of Service attacks.
It’s a good addition, [...]
Posted May 15, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: class names, code, fix, hack, kses, semantic markup, strip tags, wordpress. 6 Comments.
I’ve whittled things down to the point where the only baseline change from WordPress 2.0.2 is in the next_posts_link function of the wp-includes/template-functions-links.php file. The change is necessary because WPopac rewrites the SQL search queries in a way that’s incompatible with a piece of this function, but necessary for performance reasons.
Posted April 17, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: baseline modification, hack, mysql query optimization, wordpress, wordpress hacking, wpopac. Be the first one.
