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Tag Archives: PHP
On tagging, especially for photos
Several years ago after my mother died, I started a big project to get all the family photos digitized and online. Since then I’ve done the photos for our immediate family, but I still have more to do, especially on … Continue reading
Update on antisocial bookmarks
About once a month I publish an entry about what I’ve been calling antisocial bookmarks, the saving of links to articles, blog entries, websites, and documents to a blog without using a service like Delicious or Diigo. My last entry, … Continue reading
Weekend progress on the website: using Drupal and WordPress together
Effective January 1, 2010, this site does not use Drupal and instead uses only WordPress. This weekend I made some progress on the grand website unification: how to use Drupal and WordPress together while achieving a relatively consistent look and … Continue reading
Hello Drupal (and WordPress will stay)
Effective January 1, 2010, this site does not use Drupal and instead uses only WordPress. If you’ve been to my website recently and clicked on any of the sidebar links that are not blog or photo related, you probably saw … Continue reading
Open source and the lone developer
It occurred to be this morning when I was stuck in traffic that although a lot has been written about open source development for communities, much less is out there for the lone developer. This is the person who labors … Continue reading
Introducing the events calendar
Two year’s ago when my wife Judith was running for the New York State Assembly, I wrote a simple events calendar for her website to keep track of all the local meetings, parades, and county fairs where she would be … Continue reading
Blog front page is AWOL
Something happened overnight and the front page of my WordPress 2.3.2 blog is no longer being displayed. Archives and single entries are fine. We’ll be back as soon as this fixes itself or gets otherwise debugged. Update: evidently my site … Continue reading
Building in Second Life, By Example
Over the holidays I started a little project to take some of the building topics that I discussed in my 25 entry blog series on Second Life last year and turn them into an online book. This will allow me … Continue reading
links for 2007-05-13
Open Source FON Abandons Microsoft, Adopts Ubuntu | FON Blog “As of today Fon will disengage from Microsoft and adopt Linux in the Ubuntu form as our operating system of choice.” (tags: Microsoft ubuntu linux) Gordon’s Blog: Switching from Windows … Continue reading
Apache, PHP, Mac
The good news is that since the Mac OS X is based on the BSD flavor of Unix, it comes with things like PHP and Apache. The bad news is that both are pathetically backlevel. This is fixable, however, and … Continue reading
Posted in Macintosh, Open Source, Programming
Tagged Apache, Linux, MySQL, PHP, Ubuntu, WordPress
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Java, PHP, AIX
There is a new article up on IBM developerWorks about how to use Java and PHP together on AIX. A quick glance at this indicates that with some tweaking it might even be more broadly applicable to *nix operating systems. … Continue reading
links for 2007-03-10
Open Source Once More unto the Breach: The Best Presentation on Software Business and Open Source I’ve Ever Seen “Brent Williams presented ‘Open Source Business Models: A Wall Street Look at a Wild 2006 and the Prospects for Even More … Continue reading
links for 2007-01-09
Ben Ramsey – Blog Archive – Zend Executable Debugger Eclipse Plugin (tags: eclipse php) ‘Second Life’ software becomes open-source | Tech News on ZDNet “Linden Lab on Monday released as open-source software the viewer used to access Second Life and … Continue reading
My 2006 BOBBY Awards
It’s the end of the year and it’s time for my first annual BOBBY awards – Bob’s Open Blog Best of the Year. The categories and winners were chosen after careful consideration and all decisions of the judge (me) are … Continue reading
Posted in Bob Dylan, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Bob Dylan, ECMA, Firefox, Linux, Mint, ODF, OOXML, OpenOffice.org, PHP, Python, Ubuntu, WordPress
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links for 2006-12-11
Open Source Ayende @ Blog – The Problem of Open Source in the Microsoft World “I do not want new products from Microsoft that does the same thing as existing OSS products. They don’t have the same level of maturity … Continue reading
Posted in Blog and Website, Music, News, Open Source, Programming, Web 2.0
Tagged Microsoft, PHP
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How my website was built and how I might do it differently today
Effective January 1, 2010, this site does not use Drupal and instead uses only WordPress. It’s Saturday morning and I thought I would take a bit of time out to discuss how this website is built. It might be instructive … Continue reading
Posted in Blog and Website, Open Source, Programming, Standards
Tagged CSS, Java, Mint, PHP, Podcast, Website, WordPress
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Unfakeable linux
I thought this response from Red Hat was pretty funny.
links for 2006-11-07
open…: Jeff Bezos’ New New Thing – the Old Old Thing The shower mention alone gets this a link. (tags: amazon ibm) Once More unto the Breach: Open Standards, IPR and Innovation Conference, Beijing 2006 Stephe Walli goes to China … Continue reading
links for 2006-11-02
Microsoft XML Expert Joins Open-Source Middleware Firm Slightly old news, but always interesting to note where the talent is flowing. (tags: xml webservices career) Zend Moves to Boost PHP Usage “Zend Technologies has announced a series of agreements with major … Continue reading
links for 2006-11-01
Computer Stuff An Antic Disposition: Ass-backwards Compatibility “However one thinks of the OOXML specification, it lacks the quality, the consideration and the perspective of an open standard.” (tags: microsoft odf) Ben Ramsey – Blog Archive – XML & Web Services … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News, Politics / Government
Tagged Microsoft, OOXML, PHP, web services, XML
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3 quick OSCON notes
Adam Trachtenberg of eBay just said in the “PHP Lightning Talks” session that last quarter 52% of all all eBay item postings were done via the web services interfaces, versus manually. [Update: See Adam's clarification in the comments.] Chrs DiBona’s … Continue reading
Online office apps, continued
Over in his ZDNet blog, David Berlind continues the distributed discussion around online office productivity apps, this time keeping the discussion to presentation software. He picks up the discussion by CNet’s Rafe Needleman that I linked to last Friday. David … Continue reading
Jon Udell picks up the presentation software thread
Last month I posted a couple of entries about alternatives to commercial presentation graphics programs that we are very familiar with using (“Where’s the killer open source presentation software?” and “More on presentation software – look at Opera Show“). The … Continue reading
First day of the rest of my blogging life
As I’ve announced several times over on my IBM developerWorks blog, effective today I will only be blogging on my sutor.com site, both in this “Open Blog” as well as over in the “Personal Blog.” This should make my life … Continue reading
My WordPress plug-ins
Periodically I do a post about which Firefox extensions I’m currently using and I just noted two that I’m trying out. (Colorful Tabs will stay, not so sure about Performancing.) I thought today I would mention which WordPress plug-ins I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Blog and Website, Open Source, Standards
Tagged Firefox, PHP, plugin, WordPress, XML
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Setting up Ubuntu
On my personal time, I’ve been playing with Ubuntu on the desktop. This is one of the most popular Linux distributions and it is part of the Debian family of distributions. From time to time I’m going to post about … Continue reading
How open will you be in 5 years? More than now, I hope.
I just finished my second full day on this trip and I’m pretty tired. I’ve talked to a lot of people on the general themes of open standards, open source, OpenDocument Format, and innovation. One question I like to ask … Continue reading
ODF and web office suites
People often ask me why I think the OpenDocument Format situation is any different now compared to where we were 15 or 20 years ago when there were SGML formats and specifications for documents that could have become at least … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Programming, Software, Standards
Tagged AJAX, Apache, Firefox, ODF, Office 2.0, PHP
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Dressing for breakfast
Sometimes I really wonder about myself (that’s not an excuse for you to comment). Today, Saturday, I am flying home from Oslo via London and Chicago. My flight from Norway was at 7:50 AM, and so I got up at … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Programming, Science, Software, Travel
Tagged mathematics, PHP, Python, WordPress
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Some CSS work
As part of getting reading to move the blogs over to WordPress, I did some clean up of the CSS that controls the formatting of the site. I restructured the file to more cleanly separate the colors, the fonts, and … Continue reading
