Archive for 2005
Free/Open CMS and Blogging Tools Summit
Avatar of awesomeness (and fellow Vancouverite) Boris Mann just announced the Open Source CMS and Blogging Tools Summit.
The summit provides a time and place for developers of the various Free Software CMS (and blog tools) to meet and share as peers. The event is scheduled from February 7 - 9, 2006. Visit the link above [...]
eZ Conference 2006 Call for Papers
The Call for Papers for the 4th annual eZ Conference has just opened. We are looking for high-quality proposals for presentations on and related to eZ publish and Free Software.
The event will be held from June 20 to June 23, 2006 in Skien, Norway.If you are interested in attending or presenting, visit http://ez.no/company/news/ez_conference_2006_call_for_papers for more [...]
Creating iCal events from messages in Mail.app
I just wrote a small Applescript that creates one iCal event from every selected email in Mail.app.
If attempts to run the script fail, grab the source here, open up the Script Editor, paste in the source and then save as a .app
Terse use instructions follow:
email2ical creates one iCal event for every selected email message [...]
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GTD tickler functionality in Mail.app
I just wrote a bit of Applescript to handle simple tickler functionality in the OS X Mail.app. Grab a copy: GTD-like tickler functionality for Mail.app
If the script does not work properly, grab the source here, open up Script Editor, paste in the text and save the file as a .app.
Thanks to Andy Warwick for his [...]
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Presenting at the PHP Quebec Conference 2006
Hurray! My sessions for the 2006 edition of the PHP Quebec Conference have been accepted.
I will be presenting on an old favourite (Free/Open software licensing) and a new favourite (SQLite).
The sessions are titled Copyright, Contracts and Licenses for PHP Developers and SQLite: A fast, transactional DBMS embedded in PHP 5
Amusingly, the organizers found a picture [...]
My aunt Ruby passed on yesterday
Early in the morning she experienced a major stroke and passed away a day later. Behind her, she left my uncle Don, her children and their children, and the rest of her kin.
I knew that her health had been frail for years, her heart beating out of time with the rest of her, but all [...]