Category Archives: Administrative

Hacking wikkawiki

Wikkawiki is a quite interesting piece of software. It is very minimal but at the same time quite powerful. It is simple to hack, and I’m doing it because: I would like to have space available in page names, and also free form capitalization, but wikkawiki requires the pages to have CamelCase. This is not [...]

Dumping TikiWiki for WikkaWiki

I am planning to dump TikiWiki and replace it with WikkaWiki. The reasons behind my initial choice of TikiWiki were: I thought it was a good idea to have blog and wiki in one, uniform place. TikiWiki was automatically provided by bluehost, so I had something less to worry about, in particular because at that [...]

reCaptcha

I added reCaptcha to the comments. reCaptcha is a Captcha system, one of those systems that tries to understand if you are a human or an automatic program (a bot, normally for spamming). This normally consist in asking you to type the letters from an image, a task that a human can do easily, but [...]

Bluehost, wordpress and the registration mail From address

During the setup of wordpress, I realized that registration emails were sent out with a strange login(at)box.bluehost.com, instead of something more user friendly, like wordpress(at)the_site. A little investigation in the sources lead to the finding that wordpress uses the php mail() call, and the From address is correctly set to wordpress(at)the_site, therefore the wordpress setup [...]

Updated bookshelf and about me pages

I just updated the About Me and Bookshelf pages. A photo of myself is missing, but I’m planning to add it as soon as possible. The bookshelf now contains a link to my Amazon wishlist. I expect to buy and study other books as soon as I deplete the current queue.

Welcome!

A warm welcome to anyone browsing this website. The idea of this site came to me when I decided to write down many experiences I had in science. Many sources are available for science, the most notable probably being Wikipedia, and I’m not really trying to fill a gap. Most of the information you will [...]