For Geeks, by Geeks: The Open Web Conference
In a binary view of the world, there are two types of of technology conferences: those run with a profit motive and those run for by technologists for technologists.
The Open Web Conference falls into the latter category. It is an event organized by the Vancouver PHP Users Association (who are a bunch of web developers, [...]
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OpenMind 2007: Monty's Session on Building MySQL Community
I've come in late for Monty's session - everything seems to be running a bit early - how odd.
Monty's is covering mistakes in building communities - he's talking about Dream Box and how they have let their community fragment so deeply. Then he talks about how MySQL has provided a strong central point for the [...]
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OpenMind 2007: Standardization, Industry-Community Cooperations and Mobile Linux
After Carlos, Nils Faerber from LiPS (a Linux telephony consortium that includes telephony operators, hardware vendors and software vendors) takes the stage.
Nils looks much more like we image an Open Source developer to look - more like a character from User Friendly than a character from Dilbert.
He gives a high-level overview of the current state [...]
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Shell-like aliases for Hiveminder
If you are nerdy (and, if you are reading this blog, that is probably the case), then you probably like the alias built-in for *nix shells.
If you also use Hiveminder, then you should be pretty happy, as Shawn over at Best Practical has added alias-like support to Hiveminder's IM interface.
The syntax is simple.
Create an alias [...]
Quicksilver + Adium + Hiveminder
Jesse and the gang at Best Practical have cooked up a slick IM interface for Hiveminder. Now, with a bit of AppleScript and the help of Adium, it is easy to hook Quicksilver up to Hiveminder.
If this is all a bunch of jabberwocky, then you probably aren't using a Mac. Move along, nothing to [...]
Catcloud Wordress Plugin Security and Performance Update
Update: This plugin is no longer maintained. I'd recommend using Wordpress' built-in tag cloud functionality or the Simple Tags plugin instead.
After putting off some very, very simple work for far too long, I've finally fixed the security hole in catcloud that is mentioned here. I've also fixed the very lazily written code that grabbed the [...]
Hacking Business Models
This weekend, Monty and I got together for a different kind of hacking session.
Instead of developing software, we were working on developing a set of rough principles and rules for running a Free Software/Open Source business. We both have a good amount of experience working with various FLOSS projects (like Mozilla, MySQL, PHP, etc.) and [...]
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Possible CSRF in Catcloud
Update: This plugin is no longer maintained. I'd recommend using Wordpress' built-in tag cloud functionality or the Simple Tags plugin instead.
Alex over at http://www.buayacorp.com posits (in Spanish) that catcloud is vulnerable to cross-site request forgeries (CSRF) - he may well be right. I've asked him for more information.
Amusingly enough, despite having catcloud on his list [...]
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catcloud Wordpress Plugin
Update: This plugin is no longer maintained. I'd recommend using Wordpress' built-in tag cloud functionality or the Simple Tags plugin instead.
catcloud is a plugin for Wordpress that generates a tag cloud from the categories used for a blog. Tags cloud are visual representations of how frequently a tag is used within a given set of [...]
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WordPress Cat Cloud Plugin v0.2.2 released
Update: This plugin is no longer maintained. I'd recommend using Wordpress' built-in tag cloud functionality or the Simple Tags plugin instead.
Version 0.2.2 of the Category Cloud WordPress plugin has been released. The code is even uglier than the previous version. :)
New features include:
style sheet now moved into head of generated output
additional options for controlling the [...]
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