I installed Vista on my Boot Camp partition way back in the beta days when it wasn't supported. This meant that I had to do some manual tweaking of the partitions.
Now that I am on Leopard, with VMWare Fusion, I am getting tired of not being able to run my Vista partition as a VM even though VMWare Fusion fully supports running a Boot Camp partition as a guest virtual hard drive.
Winclone to the rescue
I didn't want to have to spend the hours, days or weeks that it takes to get a system back to ...
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Coming from Google, the king of search, you would think that they have search in a GAE applications pretty much sorted.
When it came to implementing search on this blog, I started researching the search.SearchableModel when I came across this:
Don't expect too much. First, there's no ranking, which is a killer drawback. There's also no exact phrase match, substring match, boolean operators, stemming, or other common full text search features. Finally, support for stop words (common words that are not indexed) is currently limited to English.
These are all acceptable limitations for a simple blog ...
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Okay, so I lied, it isn't one file. However you no longer need that long list of script tags in your head.
While looking around for a syntax highligter for this blog - I intend on posting quite a view code snippets - it seemed that the generally accepted standard is SyntaxHighligter (SH). SH is great. It looks good, it is easy to mark up and it is fast (enough).
But that long list of includes in the head of my template was annoying me, especially as I am hardly ever likely to post anything needing the VB brush.
Dynamic loading ...
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