eggdrop.ch

Here are some tools that might be helpful if you’re creating websites.

The first one is GNOME Colorscheme which allows you to generate a variety of colorschemes from a single starting color. Note that there are many dependencies when you’re trying to compile it from the source code.

The second one is LinkChecker which allows you to check your website for broken links. I like the HTML output:

linkchecker -o html http://www.example.com/ > output.html

And if you don’t know the Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox yet, check it out!

I wanted to know how many times the words in a file appear. So I wrote a Python script that counts them. Please note that the code was written in a hurry and I know it’s possible to make it better.

Here’s it:

import sys

print sys.argv[1]
f = file(sys.argv[1])
buf = ''
while True:
        line = f.readline()
        if len(line) == 0:
                break
        buf += line
f.close()

buf = buf.replace('n', ' ')
buf = buf.replace('(', ' ')
buf = buf.replace(')', ' ')

arr = buf.split(' ')
dict = {}
for word in arr:
        if not word in dict:
                dict[word] = 0
        dict[word] += 1

for i in sorted(dict.items(), lambda a, b: cmp(b[1], a[1])):
        print '%s: %s' % i

I replaced my old Windows 98-style bluescreen 404 page with a new, dynamically generated Windows NT-style bluescreen. I think it looks much cooler now.

My website automatically detects which language you prefer and displays the appropriate content. I’m using this script because I didn’t want to write one myself. Strict mode is of course off (be nice to IE ).

The website is delivered in either XHTML 1.1 or HTML 4.01 Strict. It depends on whether your browser accepts the application/xhtml+xml mime type. There’s a great script which automatically sends the right version to the browser. I’m using that script because XHTML should be delivered as application/xhtml+xml and I can’t just send it to all browsers as application/xhtml+xml, because there are some browsers that do not support this mime type (yes, IE again).

This is the first post of the new eggdrop.ch blog. The website has got a completely new look. It should be easier to navigate now. There’s also an automatic language detection (German or English) and a nice warning for IE-users