Archive For April 24th, 2003
Bob, first of all, glad to hear your son Channing is doing well. It was a shock to read about Chase a year ago. It doesn’t seem that long at all! Unfortunately I have to disagree with your arguement against Open Source. When a project is successful it’s used by people and the maintainers are [...]
After all those “Linux doesn’t work! I’m going home to mammy!” stories here’s a refreshingly positive story about Linux, and also a link to a great apt-rpm repository. Here’s some brief instructions on getting it working. Lots of games and stuff available
This one has to go in “Humour”, no doubt about it. Made me grin. hehe. Proinnsias is on the upgrade cycle once more. Pity Mr Project can’t import MS Project files..
Yaay! Linux drivers for my modem have been released for Red Hat 9 and other distributions! Should be online tonight! Thanks Ruairi!
The ILUG is a great resource and often it’s great having such a varied and technical group of people on the ILUG. Caolan works on Open Office/Star Office and it looks like my OO problems may be fixed in the 1.1 release! I love his explanation why bullet points were a bit screwy when exporting [...]
Justin Mason looks at using VNC for his desktop. His machine is too noisy so what better way to get a quiet PC? I used to use VNC but it was too slow. I think you’d probably need a switched network with decent network cards and switches. I have decent network cards, but only a [...]
Here’s an interesting article, Template Engines from the author of bTemplate. In short, the point of template engines should be to separate your business logic from your presentation logic, not separate your PHP code from your HTML code. That’s the short definition of what a template should do. I think it should also: Provide application [...]
Tim has some excellent tips for all you blogshare traders. Make sure you sell your stock before May 1st!
On the b2 forums there are plenty of hacks and enhancements to b2. While there are guidelines to writing hacks they’re informal, and many hacks rely on changing existing code. I’m using the Smarty plugins support to provide a consistent and documented way of writing plugins. I created a simple “googleit” function already. It’s integrated [...]
