Monthly Archive for June, 2008

Tweak your del.icio.us most visited sites

on 2008 June 19
in Personal and Soft Hacks
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The del.icio.us Firefox add-on provides very neat integration into the latest version of Firefox three. I like the synchronization between local bookmarks, shortcuts, etc. The “most visited” tab actually counts how many times you clicked a bookmark and updates the toolbar respectively. The only problem is that for private bookmarks like the ones that initiate javascript link calls do not update the bookmark counters.

One of my favorite links is the citeulike.org’s add to library shortcuts which initiates a javascript call containing the current url on your browser such as an overview page of a journal article. This frustrated me for a while but after “grep”-ing my Firefox profile directory for the name of my citeulike bookmark, I edited the citeulike entry in my ~/.mozilla/firefox/$PROFILENAME/delcious.rdf:

<NC:Bookmark RDF:about="rdf:#$iw2hg3" NC:URL="javascript:var%20pw=window.open('http://www.citeulike.org/posturl?username=aespinosa&bml=popup&amp;url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title),%20'citeulike_popup_post',%20'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=1,resizable=1');%20void(window.setTimeout('pw.focus()',250));"
        NC:Name="CiteULike: A free online service to organise your academic papers"
        NC:ShortcutURL=""
        NC:Description=""
        NS1:LastCharset=""
        NC:PostData=""
        NS2:shared="false"
        NS2:localonly="false"
        NS2:hash="cfbf4f27149a10bca7a44c05be12ca99"
        NS2:metahash="af1dd1906f18340e4a74c20e9497ceb3">
    <NS2:tag>bibliography</NS2:tag>
    <NS2:tag>citation</NS2:tag>
    <NS2:tag>bookmarking</NS2:tag>
    <NS2:tag>research</NS2:tag>
    <NS2:tag>reference</NS2:tag>
    <NS2:tag>academic</NS2:tag>
    <NS2:tag>tagging</NS2:tag>
    <NC:VisitCount NC:parseType="Integer">300</NC:VisitCount>
    <NS1:LastModifiedDate NC:parseType="Date">Tue Jul 03 07:49:43 2007 +000000</NS1:LastModifiedDate>
    <NC:BookmarkAddDate NC:parseType="Date">Tue Jul 03 07:49:43 2007 +000000</NC:BookmarkAddDate>
</NC:Bookmark>

The code entry above shows the XML entry for a bookmark. Simply change the “NC:VisitCount” tag to a very high value and it will appear at the top of your del.icio.us toolbar most-visited tab.

Enjoy your new favorite bookmark!

Life: the next phase

on 2008 June 12
in Personal
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The past few weeks was very tight as I preparing from my resignation as an instructor in Ateneo (and attending parties). I will be joining the Computer Science Department at the University of Chicago for my graduate studies. My work will be on grid computing and distributed computing under the supervision of Dr. Ian Foster, the father of grid computing himself! He is also one of the founders of the Globus Toolkit project, the key middleware in every grid deployment in the world.

This blog site will still be up and maintained but my faculty page and ECCE wiki page will not be updated as much for the next six years. Below is my new contact information:

So if you’re around the Chicago-Hyde park area, drop me an email and let’s meet up! :P