Archive for 2005
Death by Ice Cream
Mandy and I are getting ready for our Julebord party tonight - one of the things we are making is ice cream. Rather than buy ice cream from a store that is a mix of modified milk ingredients, carageenan gum and so on, I have worked up a very nice recipe that instead focuses on [...]
Mitchell profiled in the Economist!
My friend Mitchell has a nice profile in the Economist with a great picture of her on the trapeze. For some reason I feel a sort odd, happy and lurching culture shock.
Tags: eZ, MIT, Uncategorized
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The eZ partner program (a response to Seth Gottlieb's Commercial O/S [...]
A Free Software / Open Source Basecamp?
Recently, I have been playing around with the rather excellent Basecamp. For a project management app, it provides a great mix of usability and features. I am even happy to pay a moderate fee to support a high-quality service that I don't have to worry about (though I admit I would prefer that it were [...]
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PHP in a Nutshell
Early in 2005, one of the O'Reilly staff dropped me a line to see if I could skim through a draft chapter of a PHP book. I did and in the process gave the author a good text-lashing (mostly) over some relatively minor things. I usually behave more graciously, honest.
So, it is now near the [...]
One of Mandy's patterns published in Knitty.com!
After over a year of being the knitty.com technical editor, Mandy finally found time and interest to publish one of her own patterns on knitty.com. (It is her first published pattern - I'm so proud! :)
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Preparing for upcoming sessions on Free and Open Software licensing
Over the next few months, I need to prepare for a series of sessions on contracts, copyright and licensing - especially as they pertain to Free Software and Open Source.
To do this, I plan on writing a series of concise articles that answer common questions in this topic area.
I have a draft list of questions, [...]
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GPLv3 Process Definition
The FSF just announced guidelines for reviewing version 3 of the GPL. To participate in the process, visit http://gplv3.fsf.org/. To learn more, visit http://gplv3.fsf.org/process-definition.
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I'll be at the ICANN geek dinner
Parroting Boris and Roland, I too shall be at the ICANN geek dinner tomorrow tonight.
For details, see upcoming.org http://upcoming.org/event/43811/
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… and the "Best Quote of the Week" award goes to:
Andrei Zmievski, for the following inspired snippet:
"Oh, if you are using a mail reader that screws up message threading, I will hunt you down and stuff you full of Perl internals until you look like a camel."
Tags: perl, Uncategorized
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Firefox 1.5 Released
Firefox 1.5 has been released! If you've been using Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 3, congratulations: you already have Firefox 1.5.
Power users upgrading from Firefox 1.0.7 will appreciate draggable tabs, a much faster Back button, and the replacement of many error dialogs with error pages. Web developers and can now take advantage of SVG, Canvas, [...]