In February of this year, I switched this blog from WordPress to Drupal, the reasons for which are explained here. Today, a handful of months later, I’m switching it back.
While Drupal is an amazing platform for software development—indeed, my own company extensively uses Drupal in some our projects—my opinion is that it’s not appropriate for [...]
I have a Garmin Nuvi 370 GPS device, and a Mac OS X MacBook. We’re planning a trip to Stuttgart, Germany and I hoped to be able to easily load waypoints, locations, POIs (Points of Interest)–in other words, “places”–onto my GPS beforehand. I don’t know if I’ve discovered the only way to do it, but [...]
Some friends have recently expressed interest in knowing how I geo tag my photos, and so this article describes the process.
In the past I’ve wondered whether it’s possible to use a single Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS trainer watch with two Garmin GSC 10 cadence sensors (i.e. with two different bicycles). The answer is, yes, you can; however, the device can only work with one sensor at a time. When you switch from one bike to [...]
Today we (my buddy Arto and I. Ok, Arto with me looking over his shoulder) made some major under-the-hood changes to this blog, namely, migrating from the Wordpress blogging system, to Drupal. In particular, Drupal version 6.
Why the change?
I’ve been a happy owner of a hacked “Jailbroken” iPhone for a long time. My iPhone has been running perfectly well for me on version 1.1.1 for, well, since I bought it several months ago.
I also work with young people who live (and sometimes cut themselves) on the very bleeding and dripping edge of technology. [...]
A while back, there was quite some chatter about DabbleDB, “a better web database to share, manage and explore your information.” The web application is apparently based on some impressive technology, at least based on a cursory exploration of the demos.
So today a friend of mine created an application at DabbleDB, and shortly thereafter an [...]
This is sort of a summary post related to a combination of recent technological advances, combined with older technology, that’s making my networked life a lot more convenient.
MacFUSE & MacFusion: Mounting Volumes over SSH
Our company is very distributed — we have offices in Germany, Spain and the US, with a number of employees living in [...]
Today’s article will likely go down in the annals of blogosphere history as one of the more profound pieces ever written, as I explain why I’m so happy with my new $5 camera case.
I am a tremendous fan of the Canon PowerShot (”IXUS” here in Europe) family of cameras. They are rugged, compact, and take [...]
Arto, Alex and I were having a discussion (ok, argument) over coffee yesterday morning about the suitability of email notification for events which are available via RSS. An interesting part of the conversation came when we reviewed the history of RSS, and how it become popular. RSS was created for news syndication, and later exploded [...]
This US is clearly ahead in many fields, but telephone services doesn’t appear to be one of them. I think it’s long been agreed that mobile services in the US are far behind their European and Asian counterparts (and this was in line with my personal experience last time there.) But after witnessing my mother’s [...]
NetNewsWire (690 Unread Articles) -> Mark All as Read -> Aaaaaahh :)
…and just like that, I feel better. (Somebody let me know if I missed anything real important in the past couple weeks.)
Global Warming: You know it’s a problem. A big problem. And the kind of problem that just sort of creeps up on you. But how you fix it? Equally big problem. Who knows?
My email is sort of the same thing. I’ve spent the last hour cleaning, and my “Actionable Inbox” is down to 30 mails. [...]
Not too long ago we launched a site — Fincalena.com — representing a milestone in what for me was a really interesting project. For anyone interested, I published an article about it over at Summit, our company weblog.
The Building of Fincalena
My colleague in MakaluMedia, Alex Bendiken, just won the Slashdot.com redesign contest. His and our servers are now experiencing a “slashdotting”. This should be quite a ride. I’ll write more about his winning design soon.
The following email I received this morning is a good example of what can happen when you depend just a bit too much on online translators:
It would like to know itself the Guns N’ Roses has chance of touch that year with you, the event comes being the festival more expected by us [...]
After three years of using Movable Type, I decided to migrate my weblog over to the open-source WordPress weblogging systems. This article documents the process, and some of the details.
One of these days I’m going to find the time to become expert in CSS-based layout, and stop with my lazy table-based tendencies (mainly because of the semantic advantages.) When I do, I’ll be studying this article in depth, which is one of the best I’ve seen:
In Search of One True Layout
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As a first WordPress website, I’ve reworked and relaunched the website of our local Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu / Grappling martial arts club — Gracie Barra BH Marbella (a.k.a. Marbella Submission Fighters).
http://gbmarbella.com
So far, I’m really happy with WordPress.
I’ve nearly decided to use WordPress to implement our company’s intranet. I’m thinking that I’ll use the key/value meta facility to assign content to groups, and then add some http authentication to provide selective visibility to that content by group. What I can’t quite decide it whether to use “Pages” for content, or categorized “Posts”.
If [...]
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