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Teen escapes death on train tracks 15 Apr 2011 03:02 | 8 comments Here in South Australia, at Mawson Lakes interchange, a 17-year-old youth narrowly escaped with his life - receiving only a broken ankle - when crossing the railway tracks. He had jumped onto the train tracks to cross over to the other platform. Jumping down next to a stationary train, he didn't see... Read more... Topics: misc |
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Image 'title' attribute, for describing an image 03 Apr 2011 23:36 | 3 comments Wikidot community administrator RobElliott has discovered an undocumented feature that you can use while embedding images into your wikidot page! The title attribute for [[image ...]], which I'm about to add to the documentation, allows you to specify extra information about an image, which is then... Read more... Topics: wikidot |
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Reminder to update My Account links 31 Mar 2011 00:21 | 0 comments Hey everyone, just a quick reminder to check any links leading to Wikidot account settings on all of your sites. Since the UI upgrades to the My Account page, several old links have been broken. Here's a map from old to new links, for your convenience: (please let me know if I've forgotten any of... Read more... Topics: wikidot |
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I'm glad I spent so much time on STE extensions 28 Mar 2011 09:11 | 6 comments If you're not sure what STE or STE extensions are, I'd recommend you check it out. It could save you a lot of time whilst managing your Wikidot site! When I was working on the extensions feature back in December of last year (for STE 3.20) I went through a lot of trial-and-error before I finally... Read more... Topics: university |
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Internet Explorer 9. Good for one thing. (updated) 24 Mar 2011 04:02 | 11 comments Browsers are being released all over the place. Microsoft recently released Internet Explorer 9, with far better support for HTML5, CSS3 and other web technologies. Mozilla also released their new browser, Firefox 4. One of my favourite (though merely aesthetic) features is the addition of Windows... Read more... |
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Publicly-visible feedback system for Wikidot 16 Mar 2011 01:57 | 1 comments To combat spammers and to give contributors additional recognition for their work (and therefore some encouragement to contribute more often), I have proposed a publicly-visible feedback option that Wikidot could implement. The idea only just came to be a few minutes ago, so it is still in it's... Read more... Topics: wikidot |
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Java Threads Explained 15 Mar 2011 11:42 | 0 comments Ever heard the term multi-threaded and wondered what it means? What is a thread? Why is it useful? This video aims to answer those questions. If you learnt something from this video, or would like to see more about other topics, please Like the video on YouTube. Thanks for watching! YouTube... Read more... Topics: java |
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Writer cancelled, STE full-steam ahead 15 Mar 2011 02:45 | 0 comments Some of my previous blog posts mentioned a project I have been working on titled Wikidot Writer, which was intended to be a C#.NET application that would make blogging on the Wikidot.com platform easy for anybody - even new users that don't have a site yet! However, I have decided to cancel that... Read more... Topics: wikidot |
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Wikidot API changes, and STE 11 Mar 2011 14:18 | 0 comments I have just posted an announcement detailing some of the API changes that were implemented by Wikidot earlier today. In short, site administrators are given greater control over their sites, and users are given greater control over what the apps they use are able to do to their sites. Please read... Read more... Topics: wikidot |
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ListUsers module: tips & tricks! 03 Mar 2011 07:24 | 0 comments With the addition of the ListUsers module, Wikidot gave us a very powerful tool. We have the ability to show some custom text to any signed-in user. Image taken from DreamsTime.com That text is not only hidden from anonymous visitors to your site - making it very useful in some specific cases - but... Read more... Topics: wikidot |
