If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! The subject of Second Life keeps coming up lately, and every time it does I think back to LambdaMOO, where I spent way too much time in the mid 90s, building fantastic worlds and learning to program in [...]
I’ve had the draft of this article kicking around in Wordpress for weeks now, and not posted it. I guess I thought it sounded too whiny. Well, yes, it is whiny. What’s more, having just quit my job and decided to go job-hunting overseas again, I now realise that writing this [...]
Yesterday morning I woke up to find that one of the posts on my Geek Etiquette blog had been Dugg.
Within half an hour, my site was offline.
I spent a good chunk of the day dealing with my first “digg effect”, and thought it might be interesting to write up.
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All times are in Australian east [...]
I’ve been looking for a simple, lightweight wiki application for my website since my recent redesign. Here’s what I wanted:
quick, no-nonsense install and configuration easily restrict editing access (me, and perhaps a small handful of friends) clean interface and pleasant markup that doesn’t make me want to scream (TWiki, I’m looking at you!) easily themeable to [...]
An XY problem is one where you have a problem X which you want to solve with tool or technique Y, but Y isn’t necessarily the right thing for the job. You ask, “How do I solve X with Y?” and everyone looks at you blankly.
How do I hammer in this nail with [...]
I just submitted my paper proposals for the Open Source Developers’ Conference, an annual event held here in Australia which brings together developers from a range of different open source communities and languages, including PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, Javascript, Mono, and I don’t even know what else. Even though I usually spend most [...]
A couple of weeks ago my Dad and I were on our way to visit my Grandma, who’s moved into a retirement village down at Torquay. As we were driving through Geelong, I thought I’d see whether Dad had caught any of the buzz about this web2.0 thing all the kids seem to [...]
Via Stennie on #perlnet, the Microformats Wiki lists me as the originator of the term “Plain Old Semantic HTML”:
The earliest references to “plain old semantic HTML” that have been found so far are: 1998-05-01: Kirrily ‘Skud’ Robert on comp.infosystems.www.authoring.site-design - “The site is implemented in HTML 4.0 Transitional with style sheets; [...]
In my head this post had the newspaper-style title: Fan archive must use GPL, Creative Commons, says Skud. Please feel free to mentally substitute it, if you prefer.
Anyway, I’ve been letting this tumble around in my brain since Astolat’s request for volunteers the other day. First, I’d better explain some [...]
I just can’t stop.
We’ve got one wiki page called “NewDeveloperInduction”, and on the day a new hire starts, they quickly learn that that page contains — or links to — all the basic information they’re going to need to know in their first week or two. We also have a policy [...]
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