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1. Linux: Wrapper to Copy Files from STDIN
(Software/Linux)

There are times you want to copy a selection of files, potentially from various directories, into a single directory.  As you may be aware, the GNU copy command, `cp', will not read a list of such files ...

2. Windows Simple Backup Script
(News/Coding)

We regularly backup the network file-server at work, though of course restoring from a backup can be a pain. Also, I think that solely relying on someone else to backup the data that is most vital to ...

3. HACK: JCE Frontend Won't Save Changes; Setgood Undefined
(News/Meta/Joomla!)

Using JCE as my editor, I couldn't save edits I made to articles using the front end.  Trying to save would generate an error about setgood not being defined; that is, if you use the Firefox Web Developer ...

4. 404 File Not Found
(News/Meta/Joomla!)

Joomla!'s default page for HTTP 404 errors left me underwhelmed, so I set about improving it.  To create your own 404 page, simply copy templates/system/error.php to templates/error.php.  This file will ...

5. Known Bugs
(Meta/Meta)

The "View as PDF" function for individual articles does not render GeSHi Extreme tags. The RSS Feeds pages will almost never be valid XHTML, as the content comes from feeds created by others, and I'm ...

6. Joomla! Image Captioning
(Software/Joomla!)

The stock image captioning application in Joomla! 1.5, caption.js, modifies the DOM of the page in ways that are not standards-compliant.  The application inserts a <div> inside of a <p>, which ...

7. GeSHi Extreme
(Software/Joomla!)

In porting my website to Joomla!, I was rather disappointed in the state of Joomla!'s syntax highlighting.  I discovered the Geshi Plus plug-in, which allowed for use of an alternate tag style that makes ...

8. KGameSvgDocument.h
(Portfolio/Source Code)