This little article is a summary of how I currently manage my wordpress blog. The wordpress.org site lists some advice on how to manage a wordpress installation using subversion. However, I have a slightly more sophisticated setup that preserves my modifications (as long as they don’t conflict) that I maintain in a private branch of [...]
Tagged problemsandsolutions, subversion, versionmanagement, wordpressConvenience finally won me over. I made my first online music purchase with iTunes plus, the DRM free music shop of Apple. Initially, when they launched this shop, they chose to offer music at a higher price than the DRM music. A few weeks ago, they reduced prices to what they were charging for their [...]
Tagged apple, reviewsI was struggling this evening with the default merge tool that ships with tortoise svn. It’s not bad and quite user friendly. However, I ran into trouble with it when trying to review changes in a latex file (don’t ask, I still hate the concept of debugging and compiling stuff I would normally type in [...]
Tagged linux, python, reviews, versionmanagementInteresting post on how microformats relate to the Semantic web as envisioned by the w3c.
The capital S is semantically relevant since it distinguishes it from the lower case semantic web that microformats are all about. The difference is that the Semantic web requires technology that has been defined by the w3c but is not [...]
The latest in blog spam seems to be users signing up with obscure addresses like filesearch@o2.pl (feel free to send all sorts of crap that way) and not posting any comments. This was sort of a minor annoyance until now but over the past 24 hours I’ve had 5 new user registrations like this.
I have [...]
I just found this cool mobile barcoder extension for firefox that displays so-called QR codes that encode the url of the page you are currently looking at. QR codes are like bar codes, only 2-dimensional. For example:
(generated using this site: http://qrcode.kaywa.com/)
It so happens that my Nokia N95 (hey, there’s some benefit in working for a [...]
I had a nice article accepted at the upcoming 1st IEEE International Peer-to-Peer for Handheld Devices Workshop at the CCNC ‘08 conference in Las Vegas.
Jilles van Gurp, Christian Prehofer, Cristiano di Flora, Experiences with realizing Smart Space Web Service Applications
This paper presents our approach for building an internet based middleware platform for smart spaces as [...]
Tagged New publication, research, smart space, workshop
High Scalability | Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.
Very good resource for learning about scalability issues and solutions in large scale web architectures,
(tags: architecture scaling server web scalability optimization)
KompoZer - Easy web authoring
Hey they are bringing NVU back from the abandon ware near death state it has been in since the 1.0 in 2005 or [...]
Slashdot Turns 10
shit I feel old now, member since 1998
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The good news is that Will Norris is making progress with his openid plugin. Once he puts up a release, I’m probably going to give it a try.
The bad news is that the wordpress bug database still lists as a main reason to not support openid that support is provided by third party [...]
