mdtable-pretty-printer is a plugin for Inkdrop which tidies markdown tables in your notes. This is the first plugin I’ve written for Inkdrop, and was an interesting experience. Plugins are written in JavaScript, which I don’t write a lot of, and follow React-based patterns which I’m...

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I’ve finally signed up to twitter now I realise that it’s not SMS-only (because what fool pays for that?) and I can update via IM. It seems cute. The IM bot didn’t recognise my Jabber address (or at least I didn’t receive anything at that address), although it did pick up my Gmail account. The bot always appears offline to me though, which means that ...

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We recently rolled out the Google Search Appliance at work, replacing the ageing (and dreadful) htdig (wikipedia link since the website appears to be down). I’d previously put together a Firefox search plugin for htdig, but it wasn’t very good because the htdig search gave poor results and took ages to deliver them. Since we rolled out the...

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After a mail from Rod Begbie I’ve finally decided to move to a free, open-source aggregator which actually has active development: Gregarius. Sorry FeedOnFeeds. My FeedOnFeeds database contains around 30,000 posts – is it worth importing them into Gregarius? That’s a whole lot...

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I’m quite a fan of JSPWiki. I first came across it when I rolled it out at my last place of work, as an experiment. It worked out quite well, being used by just about every department of the company, and we did some internal extension of it via plugins so that it generated things like timetables out of Microsoft Project. By the time I left I think it had...

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OK so this is old news because I’ve not been the blogging mood, but I think it’s important enough to cover anyway. In November 2005 I posted that: by far the weakest point of structuredblogging, head and shoulders above any technical detail, is the total lack of any obvious update since April 2005. To all intents and purposes, the site and project look dead from the o...

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A number of small applications I’m working on have all had their release dates unceremoniously pushed back due to my discovery of Wikidpad. WikidPad i...

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Back in April Russell Beattie rolled out JSPWiki at his workplace, which kind of inspired me and in June we rolled out a JSPWiki of our own to a set of trial users who all loved it. Soon after we rolled it out to some of the other departments and whilst there was some resistance, in the main its ...

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Frustrated with not being able to use SVG in Firebirdfox (especially now that the GIMP has gone SVG and after reading about the Worst. Tag. Ever.), I finally decided to plough throug...

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