11.30.06
Posted in general at 4:27 pm by Clinton
I was thinking about adding some extras to our wordpress install now that the marking is out of the way. So, for those of you with a byteclub blog hosted here, let me know (email or comment) what you would like. That goes for themes too. I know that people have posted on themes and plugins in the past, but in order to make an up-to-date list, let me know now and ill make it happen.
The first one on my list is http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/feedburner-plugin/ - to send your RSS feed out to feedburner, which then allows tracking and better sharing to the world.
This is a limited time opportunity for me to do things, so let me know. :)
Once I have the aggregated blog+comment feeds they way I want (i’m working on getting blogger comments as a feed… not as easy as I would have hoped - suggestions), I’m intending to send the aggregated byteclyb feed out to feedburner. What do you think? I’m also thinking of a aggregated byteclub “activity” feed that could include changes to the wiki, news and the blogs. Hmm…
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11.16.06
Posted in general at 9:17 pm by Clinton
It’s been a while since I compared php opcode cache accelerators, so it was nice to read a quick summary of the current players. Thought others might enjoy:
http://www.ducea.com/2006/10/30/php-accelerators/
Seems eAccelerator is a good open source option.
This came from a recent sampling of an easy OS X (~L)AMP install option (because although I don’t mind a good-ole compile from source experience myself, there has to be an easier way and I like to be able to recommend something easier when asked), and the MAMP programme (love that e) at http://www.mamp.info/en/home/ is a nice piece of work so far (ymmv).
More to learn in the Mac world… :)
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11.10.06
Posted in general at 11:30 pm by Clinton
For a nice java-based information visualisation toolkit project, check out http://prefuse.org/.
Okay, the applet+data download may take a while, but I quite like this one from the gallery
http://prefuse.org/gallery/graphview/
(those who know my research will know why:)
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09.29.06
Posted in general at 4:12 pm by Clinton
Check out http://youtube.com/watch?v=DetnKgOxrSI
(Jason sent me the link to gamescheatcodes.co.uk , which is really just a link to the youtube link above. Thanks Jason!).
Yikes.
[edit - title… I dont think it was accurate :)]
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09.26.06
Posted in general at 9:05 am by Clinton
My friend Mark was at Bangkok Airport a few weeks back. He saw this on the monitor and thought I would find it amusing… I thought I would share. :)
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09.19.06
Posted in general at 8:41 pm by Clinton
I’ve been wanting an easier way to un-minimize windows in OS X. Unlike other users i’ve spoken to (yeah, I mean Andrew) I tend to minimize windows rather than use a multiple-window (ie virtue desktop) setup - probably out of habits I developed in windows.
I started looking for a solution by searching for some magic key combination I’ve come to expect from OS X, but no joy there afaik (or at least no standard that I know - let me know if i’ve missed something obvious).
However, I google and found a little app called Witch (Window Switch) by Peter Maurer. Basically, I think it’s great. Now, using alt-tab I can switch to any window of any app - basically, it behaves like Windows does with alt-tab.
I have read that for some people witch is slow to pop-up, but that hasn’t been an issue for me. Setup does require turning on “access for assistive devices” in universal access (designed to allow assistive software to help users navigate other applications - a setup I think is a good design). Check out the website to see screen shots of witch in action.
There are heaps of settings, but I’m still using the plain-vanilla setup and that’s been fine.
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09.08.06
Posted in general at 11:09 am by Clinton
You might have seen this already… I hadn’t. (Followed Lucien’s geek humour post, read the comment… i think its known as “browsing”.)
http://blogs.sun.com/ThinGuy/entry/the_war_on_terror_as
Still laughing. Back to work.
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08.23.06
Posted in general at 1:00 pm by Clinton
I recently sent an email to an IT service department (the reason is not important). Knowing that in the past this department had simply been called “helpdesk” (as in “helping” right) I made up the email adress “helpdesk@…” and clicked send.
Then I got an auto-reply, which basically said that the “helpdesk” is no longer the “helpdesk” - it is the “servicedesk@…”.
I must conclude that there is no longer any “help” in helpdesk… and that explains a few things. :)
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06.29.06
Posted in general at 10:29 pm by Clinton
I’m finishing off my marking (almost done!), but came across the following site for those who might occasionally have less-than-friendly thoughts about speed cameras — not that I approve of the following of course.
http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2.htm
Just sharing… now where’s that red pen….
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06.02.06
Posted in general, learn, byteclub at 11:26 pm by Clinton
google’s great - but one *has* to be asking the *right* question. eish!
I wasn’t. Wasted lots of time. boo!
As many of you know, i’ve been know to play with php/rss/feeds for the byteclub blog list. I’m using the nice MagpieRSS code for getting feeds. I kept having nasty ?? instead of nice ‘ etc in post and titles… not happy, tried to fix, so, the short version/solution was to add…
define(‘MAGPIE_INPUT_ENCODING’,‘UTF-8′);
define(‘MAGPIE_OUTPUT_ENCODING’,‘UTF-8′);
define(‘MAGPIE_DETECT_ENCODING’,false);
before include the rss_fetch.in file. I’m posting code snippet more for my reference but i’m sharing ’cause that’s blogging. (oh yeah - i changed the html meta charset to utf-8 also…)
*but* my point: i spent a lot more time than i wanted/thought i needed to on this “little” issue (right zooba!) simply because i didn’t know the “right” question to be googling… urgh! Okay, rant over. i feel better now, and the results of the other changes i’m making to the blogroll i hope will make our byteclubbers happy too.
Some of the more enlightened bloggers/visitors i’m sure already known this fundamental “ask the right question” principle of the universe…
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