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I am pleased to announce that the Confluence Future Macro has been released as an open source plugin on the Atlassian Labs site.
As software engineers writing internationalised applications it's very useful to have quick access to vital information about Unicode characters such as their names, glyphs in various typefaces and how they are encoded under various schemes. Mac OS X has a very nice character palette that seems to be designed with us developer types in mind.
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Code reviews are great because not only can they prevent defects from shipping to customers, they are also a great learning tool for both author and reviewer. But why should the learning stop there, trapped in an obscure Crucible review or in a conversation that is quickly receding into the thick fog of time past?
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If your browsing habits are anything like mine you may have realised, when using Confluence 2.7, that the back and forward controls on your browser seem to be much faster when traversing wiki pages.
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Sometimes you like to think that you pretty much know everything there is to know about URIs and web browsers. I learned something today that I had absolutely no idea about before. The magic data URL protocol.
It's defined in RFC2397 as a way to include immediate data in a URL.
For example the following defines an inline GIF image in a base64 encoding:
<IMG SRC="data:image/gif;base64,
iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADsAAAAvAQMAAABnrCB9AAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAAvElE
QVQY03XQwQ0CIRAF0E9I5GLEClwrkVasxKU07GRK2CMHAn4GdXdNJCS8hDDzB7SxBFvI3PFsLYWW
r5CpRe47FtfgKwTZVvhiBMVUuGwJPODECSpucMmzDi5w6IgOJ0xEsjgiEGLiGTOxgKs3zTxNRyFs
RyWc5iG8IgKTIgFBIcCsYKERPrPMHoX1FIz6D2WF/Xm+rHi3+DZNG4R9Qhw+OI3w/LAxTsEU7UAY
yAhJZ1/0TxR9dxjeNnkBOFrkvJphu9wAAAAASUVORK5CYII="
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Anyone who has ever had to look at logs from a Confluence instance knows that they are pretty verbose. Yet at times we still wish there was a little bit more information in them, particularly regarding the nature of the web request in which the log message was generated. CONF-7878 was raised by a user exasperated by trying to understand where certain, seemingly ephemeral messages were coming from. This exasperation is certainly understandable. Often the best resource for reproducing logged errors
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