Archive for June, 2008

21JunFirefox 3 launched iGlasses…

I really don’t know what caused it, but when I installed FF3 a while ago it also launched iGlasses. The iSight indicator didn’t turn on, so it might not be a privacy issue, but that’s kinda of freaky nonetheless…

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21Jun

“When you speak two languages it is like having two minds, when you live in two cultures, you have lived two lives.” – Anonymous

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07JunCreating a style guide

Recently we had an issue with CSS styles in one of our applications at work and I’d asked if there was some kind of style guide we could use for reference. All I got was a short, cynical laugh and a “Yeah, right,” from my colleague. As luck would have it, Lisa Bolton has written this wonderful article for A List Apart about writing a style guide.

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06JunHopped on the Git bandwagon

Installed git, GitNub and signed up for a free git repository account at github this morning. It all seems pretty good so far. Took me a while to figure out how to push my local copy onto the remote repository and get GitNub to display my changes, but I think I’ve got the hang of it. I’ll be using git to manage the source for my afore mentioned new Expression Engine theme. github’s servers seem quite fast and the prices are low, so if all goes well, I might actually sign up for a paid account. I’d always hosted my SVN repositories at DreamHost, but it’s way too slow.

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06JunDreamhost + Phusion Passenger

I’m a bit late to the party, but it looks like Dreamhost has now enabled Phusion Passenger for deployment of Ruby on Rails apps on hosting accounts. I’ve always been reluctant to deploy Rails apps on DH because of all the complicated deployment issues regarding DH’s Ruby environment. Now it looks like I can just go ahead and upload my app without any worries. Thanks Dreamhost!

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05JunVersions SVN client finally releases a beta!

Go now! http://www.versionsapp.com/

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04JunHisashiburi

Yes, contrary to popular belief, I’m still alive and so is this blog (barely). I just don’t have time to be on the interwebs as much as I used to.

I’m gonna be moving to ExpressionEngine 2.0 as soon as it is released. WordPress is great, but the fact that EE will be built on top of Code Igniter means I can create my own apps easier without the wrestling match I have with WP every time I try to renew this site (or any other site I’ve built with it in the past). WP is great for blogging and if you have simple requirements, but if you’re like me and are customising/extending it to provide CMS functionality, it can be quite a pain in the ass sometimes. On the other hand, I still greatly prefer using WP as a CMS than Joomla, Xoops, etc. Personally, I prefer getting bare bones functionality and having the option to add on.

With the decision to move (back) to EE, I’ve decided to prepare for the update by moving back to EE 1.6 and I’m creating a new design. (So what else is new? I’ve said that so many times now, but never actually been happy with any design to release it to the public.) Until then, I don’t expect to be writing much here unless there’s something that really must be said. See you after the migration…Whenever that is…Ja!

P.S. Things might be a bit shaky here as I migrate stuff. It’s not called a “sandbox” for nothing.

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