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Solvent

Edit (4/25/2006): I am officially discontinuing support for this plugin. I have a comment near the botom explaining further.

This is my first public WordPress Plugin. It’s sort of an “inverse” of Owen Winkler’s Adhesive plugin. Whereas Adhesive makes posts “sticky,” Solvent makes them “slippery,” so that they won’t be displayed on the front page of your blog, no matter how recently they have been written. Read more…

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A Web Proxy Hack for CVS

If you’re like me, you are behind a crazy-restrictive firewall, that only allows outbound traffic through a web proxy. Occasionally, I have need of non-release software, like the latest CVS source from the ant-contrib project. The stupid thing is, the latest CVS packages don’t include proxy support. After hours of searching, I finally found an old patch by Andy Piper and Jim Kingdon that added HTTP proxy capabilities, but it wouldn’t work against the latest sources. So I spent a few hours hacking it into the latest release (1.12.1).

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