Tech Notes

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MediaWiki.org:

• BreadCrumbs2 MediaWiki extension that generates "breadcrumbs" to help users navigate around your wiki
• DynamicSkin MediaWiki skin layout defined using normal wikitext articles, changed automatically for each page
• EmailForm MediaWiki extension used to create email response forms

InfoDabble:

• HowTo: Use the Zend Framework GData Google Data API on GoDaddy servers
• HowTo: Install MediaWiki on a GoDaddy Value Plan
• HowTo: Create a boot-from-CD browser kiosk with Firefox and Linux

Essays

• Convergence in academic jargon generation and parsing
• Magnificent desolation
• On Error Resume Next
• Patch it until it's robust
• Seattle DOS was a better rewrite of CP/M for 16 bits than CP/M-86
• That's no moon. It's a space station

HowTo

• HowTo: Build a web site with FrontPage, Community Server, and MediaWiki
• HowTo: Build your own wiki on a stick
• HowTo: Create a boot-from-CD browser kiosk with Firefox and Linux
• HowTo: Customize Firefox in the boot-from-CD browser kiosk
• HowTo: Install MediaWiki on IIS shared hosting
• HowTo: Install MediaWiki on a GoDaddy Value Plan
• HowTo: Integrate FrontPage webs with Community Server
• HowTo: Integrate MediaWiki with Community Server and FrontPage webs
• HowTo: Read Linux network settings in a shell script
• HowTo: Set Linux video modes
• HowTo: Use the Zend Framework GData Google Data API on GoDaddy servers

Portal

• HowTo: Build a web site with FrontPage, Community Server, and MediaWiki
• HowTo: Customize Community Server navigation
• HowTo: Install MediaWiki on IIS shared hosting
• HowTo: Install MediaWiki on a GoDaddy Value Plan
• HowTo: Integrate FrontPage webs with Community Server
• HowTo: Integrate MediaWiki with Community Server and FrontPage webs

MediaWIki

• HowTo: Build your own wiki on a stick
• HowTo: Install MediaWiki on IIS shared hosting
• HowTo: Install MediaWiki on a GoDaddy Value Plan
• MediaWiki custom navigation menu (old style)
• MediaWiki extension: BreadCrumbs2
• MediaWiki extension: DynamicFunctions (extended)
• MediaWiki extension: DynamicSkin
• MediaWiki extension: DynamicSkin - InfoDabble
• MediaWiki extension: EmailForm
• MediaWiki extension: ImageMap (extended) - ImageLink
• MediaWiki extension: Page transform
• MediaWiki hooks

Apollo Flight Journal

• Apollo transcripts: HTML format and CSS styles

Other tech notes

• About this site
• Android installation
• Apollo 17 Fruitcake
• Away 34 mission
• DataGrid extensions for the Compact Framework
• HowTo: Use Page2RSS to monitor web sites
• Interview questions
• Kids in space (nearly)
• PongSats
• Reverse a string in place
• Support
• The Legendary Pacifist's guide to Halo 2
• Windows XP restore checklist
• You need the latest version of Messenger to use ...

Working notes

• Battery status display: 1. Graphic design
• Design patterns and the .NET framework
• HowTo: Customize the look of your CafePress shop
• MediaWiki extension: ArticleComments (extended)
• MediaWiki extension: Cite (extended)
• MediaWiki extension: HtmlToWiki
• MediaWiki extension: IncludeSpecialPage
• MediaWiki extension: Labeled Section Transclusion (extended)
• MediaWiki extensions
• MediaWiki internals
• MediaWiki links
• MediaWiki parser and extension hooks
• MediaWiki patch: Hidden pages
• MediaWiki tips and tricks
• SLAX Unclutter
• SLAX links
• Snapshots of Earth
• Template:New MediaWiki extension
• Template:New MediaWiki parser extension
• Template:New MediaWiki tag extension

Archive

• Apollo transcripts: XML data format
• Apollo transcripts: XSL formatting transformations
• HowTo: Create a boot-from-CD browser kiosk with Firefox 1.5 and SLAX PE 5.0.6
• HowTo: Create a boot-from-CD browser kiosk with Firefox 2 and SLAX PE 5.1.8
• HowTo: Enable PHP color coding in MediaWiki

Exoware

• Direct communication with the HTML view
• Enhanced Flat ComboBox control
• Implementing the ClientApp ADO Plan Database
• Issuing commands to the HTML view
• Setting HTML view text directly from a string
• Using the ClientApp CustomComboBox control
• Using the ClientApp HTML View automation classes
• Using the CodeGuru HTML View automation classes