The following are important building blocks for internet companies. I've had a friend who has worked on Win32 applications for about 10 years and is going to an internet company. I was telling him that these are the computer science advances that people at internet companies consider as core competencies. They are a must read for people who have not been working at an internet company. Internet companies are quick to build because they use these open source components, and then they build "

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So, I’ve been tweaking my laconica server. For those of you who don’t know about laconi.ca it is an open source microblogging platform. identi.ca is based on laconi.ca and it has lots of neat features, like OpenID and OAuth support. Being Open Source, you can go in and make various changes. Geeky stuff For OpenID, I’ve managed to authenticate using I-names from 2idi.com. Another person appears to have authenticated with Yahoo!. I tried idproxy.net and got a 500 Error. I managed to get through

slaughtering sandbox? July 7, 2008 at 2:02 pm · Filed under design, dot com, forums, speculation, wank There are so many responses by bubel on the forums about how you absolutely can NOT use your own themes on wordpress.com that not only am I now convinced the theme marketplace has finally been shelved but I’m starting to think custom CSS must be on the way out as well This user wanting multiple themes on the same blog, for example, could have been profitably directed to Sandbox, where any

Sometimes the universe hands you a goody and makes your day. Sometimes that “universe” is Blake Carver of LISNews, and the “goody” is a brand-spanking-new website for the Library Society of the World. Check it out! http://thelsw.org/ It’s not fully operational yet. A group of us are trying to figure out Drupal and get content and functionality onto the site. But it’s there, and you can register and create a profile. If anyone out there in Libraryland is good with Drupal and has some time and

EnterpriseDB put out a white paper arguing for the superiority of PostgreSQL over MySQL, even without EnterpriseDB’s own Postgres Plus extensions. Highlights of EnterpriseDB’s opinion include: EnterpriseDB asserts that MyISAM is the only MySQL storage engine with decent performance. EnterpriseDB then bashes MyISAM for all sorts of well-deserved reasons, especially ACID-noncompliance. EnterpriseDB asserts that row-level triggers, lacking in MySQL but present in PostgreSQL, are the most importan

Sourceforge.net has announced their 2008 Community Chocie Awards Finalists. You get to vote (if you are a member). The final projects for Best Project category are: Drupal Firebird FreeMind KeePass Password Save OpenOffice.org PortableApps.com: Portable Software/USB Sphinx XAMPP XBMC media center XOOPS Dynamic Web CMS There are several other categories, such as Most Likely to be Accused of Patent Violation.... Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...

For the past five years, Eric Klopfer has helped to lead the Education Arcade, the MIT based research group which is seeking to explore the pedagogical uses of computer and video games. One of his biggest contributions has been to insist that our research reflect the realities which teachers encounter with trying to deploy learning games in the classroom. Well before the Arcade launched, Klopfer has been doing cutting edge work on Augmented Reality Games. Here's a description I wrote four yea

Today on the Top Affiliate Challenge, I have to say it was much better. I got a closer look at the teams and gathered some insight on what they are doing. They aired a tip from John Chow on how to cheat Google AdWords, Yahoo Publisher and Microsoft AdCenter… I wouldn’t recommend doing it though. I am sure it’s against TOS for many of these programs. They gave Ken McArthur quite a bit of air time today and I was able to discover the web site that they are using in the competition. You should vi

If you are a regular visitor then you know that things are looking a little different.  After several hours of battling with Drupal errors, I was fed up.  Thanks to Eaglehawk, he helped transfer all of my Drupal 6.2 posts to Wordpress 2.5 using some information that he found on the internet. This was one of the posts, but it needed a little tinkering because it assumes that your Drupal and Wordpress are on the same databases when you do the conversion.  My SQL knowledge is fairly limited.  Eag

It's a Drupal 6 miracle - almost Submitted by HongPong on Sun, 2008-07-06 16:57. I have to deal a lot with Drupal, which is the content management system that runs this site, my day job and some side projects. I am trying to get a new site set up for a friend of mine on Drupal 6, but there have been quite a few bugs along the way. The thing about Drupal development is that many of the key parts are based in add-on modules, rather than the core program. Drupal 6 is a really strong improvement o

It's a Drupal 6 miracle - almost Submitted by HongPong on Sun, 2008-07-06 16:57. I have to deal a lot with Drupal, which is the content management system that runs this site, my day job and some side projects. I am trying to get a new site set up for a friend of mine on Drupal 6, but there have been quite a few bugs along the way. The thing about Drupal development is that many of the key parts are based in add-on modules, rather than the core program. Drupal 6 is a really strong improvement o

hi, i just wanted to say hi and point you to this url: http://del.icio.us/help/playtagger with that, you can easily embed a very small flash-based mp3 player into your page. for an example, check this out: punkreas.org by the way, i came to your podcast while i was researching podcasting with drupal. i tried wordpress but its api is such a mess. so i decided to switch to drupal which i have some experience.

Fred Wilson Imagines Drupal Organic Groups Submitted by elmer on Sun, 07/06/2008 - 11:17am. And that sounds right to me in the groups market. Charlie says the least common denominator in the groups market are these three functions: 1. A customizable site to call their own, even if it just has information as to what the group does and how to sign up. 2. A [...] full article | login

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Frontotemporal Dementia Research Group’s website FRONTIER has just gone live. FRONTIER is a research group that focuses on frontal dementia, picks disease, behaviour changes and memory loss. Frontier is the 17th site that we have built for clients using WordPress as a simple Content Management System. Some of our other clients that use WordPress include: Crystalise UX Research MJB financial Sydney Parks Group Cecille Design Red Queen Helen Morgan Why WordPress? Some clients come to

You have multiples social media profiles, which you want your readers to be your friend, or part of your community. To shows what you have, you want to put your social media profile on your blog sidebar, but you have profile on multiples social media websites. It’ll be troublesome, to put up images and link it to your profile one by one.  Fortunately, there are tools to make this task easir 1. justaddme . Register, key in your profile and follow every steps to get the code widget such as belo

Zemanta’s plugin now works with Drupal, MySpace, Tumblr and Ning, making Zemanata now available for 9 major platforms. Other Improvements in Zemanta’s new update: Zemanta widget is now much faster on all platforms. Related articles don’t have [via Zemanta] text anymore. Plugins for MovableType and Wordpress got updated to not clash with installed Browser add-on anymore Both Firefox and Internet Explorer add-ons are upgraded for improved performance and stability, and to better support new

A colleague asked about school intranets the other day. Here is my response. What purpose does your intranet serve? The insideCatlin web site provides tools and resources for those members of the Catlin Gabel community who come to school every day, students, teachers, staff, and parents. What are you using your intranet for? Course web sites, committee web sites, department web sites, publishing student work to the Catlin Gabel community, sharing photos from school events and trips

I’m a few days late posting this, but I have good excuses. I was busy with the day job, I have been learning how to use Sony Vegas to produce my Test Pattern videos, and, oh yeah, the Fourth of July weekend was upon me and I wanted to let loose and have fun. Let’s take a look at the stats for June. The top 10 referring sites for June were: Musing Minds Sister Toldjah Insignificant Thoughts Right Wing News Gateway Pundit Pundit Review My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy The Soda Stand A Pil