Ed The Dev .com

I referred to this blog as ‘topical’ in a conversation with my wife.

She suggested that I add the appropriate instructions:

Apply small amount to palm.
Lather well.
Rinse.
Repeat as needed.

Is it economically impossible for me to get chips on credit? Vending machines do a marvelous job providing emergency chips to the hungry programmer (who may have encountered dip, embarking upon the delicious cycle). But alas, vending machines require hard currency, rather than processing digital credit – thus the delicious cycle is interrupted; reducing both producer and consumer satisfaction.

Most wiki engines use one of these two formats: [[EdTheDev's Blog|http://www.edthedev.com]] or [[www.edthedev.com|EdTheDev\'s Blog]] If you’re transferring your links from one wiki to another that uses a different format, you’re in for some re-typing – unless you use this little trick.

Using a text editor that supports regular expressions, do a search and replace. (Be sure to select the ‘Regular Expression’ option.)

Tell the editor to find this: [[(.)|(.)]] And replace it with this: [[\2|\1]]

Pressing the ‘Replace All’ button will convert all of your wiki links in the document from one format to the other. Yes, it’s that easy. - Edward

Tip: Save your document first, so that if you make a mistake you can discard it.

Tip: Make sure you enter the entries exactly as you see above. Every character counts when you’re using a regular expression.

Tip: If your text editor has a ‘Match Case’ option, select it in order to preserve your capital letters.

Tip: If you’re an old-school ‘sed’ user, the command looks like this: s[[(.)|(.)]]/[[\2|\1]]/g