I’ve put together a small page with some notes which have helped me during my recent set up of phpUnderControl.  I will probably add more to the list in the coming weeks, but these are a couple stumbling blocks I hit the past few days.  If you’re not using phpUnderControl, you owe it to yourself [...]

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There’s an article on TechCrunch about Yahoo offering support for a number of microformat standards.
They are saying that they will support a number of microformats at the start: hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom and XFN. They will support vocabulary components from Dublin Core, Creative Commons, FOAF, GeoRSS, MediaRSS, and others. They will support RDFa and eRDF [...]

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I’ve not done any major development work specifically inside MS Windows for a few years now, and I’ve forgotten what some of the hassles are.  Today I revisited that world, looking to play with the new ASP.NET and .NET 3.5 framework.  Whew what a hassle.  Let me start by saying I can only run Windows [...]

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In the religion and language survey,first written about here, we’ve already got 2800 entries in less than 24 hours.  I’d like to leave this open for at least another week, but am also interested in working with some of you out there to parse the data and come up with some reports.  If you’ve got [...]

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Latest podcast episode up.  I cover feedback from the last episode (thanks on the questions answered everyone!).  A few news tidbits cropped up - Perl on Rails, Seaside was brought to my attention, I point over to Paul Spoerry’s blog to a great list of resources for web developers, and I wrap up with a [...]

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So Long Apple. The Party’s Over

JavaLobby.org has a pretty long thread on this recent blogosphere topic. Apple did not ship a Java 6 with Leopard. Everyone is up in arms. One of the questions I haven’t seen address anywhere is why it’s Apple’s job to spend time putting together a Java runtime [...]

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Actually, the ‘upgrade’ wasn’t an upgrade so much as a switch back.  I’ve been on ubuntu from dapper through fiesty, and switched over to mandriva 2008 yesterday.  I thought I’d backed everything up, but I’d forgot a few things.

Everything in /var

doesn’t sound like much, except that’s where my development php code was, as well as [...]

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I’ve been with Open Source Risk Management for about 2 months now, and it’s been quite interesting so far.  The issues and risks that the integration of open source code raises, and how different companies respond to these risks, is probably the crux of the interesting stuff, at least for me.  It doesn’t necessarily seem [...]

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I just stumbled on Zotero, a fantastic firefox plugin for archiving, annotating and searching stuff you find on the web.  There’s very little I can say about it that they don’t say better on their site.  I’ve only been using it today, but it’s simply amazing.  I’ve been looking for something like this for a [...]

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So, I’ve now been at my new workplace (opensourceriskmanagement) for a week.  Well, not quite.  I was only *there* (in Durham) for 2.5 days last week.  Since last Wednesday evening, I’ve been in San Jose, CA, attending meetings with current and prospective clients, and doing code audits.  My Black Duck experience today was less than [...]

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