Pronounced 'World' # § 3d, Geography, Google, Maps, OSX, Software, visualisation
This method of upgrading Wordpress using Subversion is actually much easier on the brain cells than their standard method. I'm not sure why I hadn't heard of it before. # § CMS, Software, wordpress
Google sponsored CMU project on rethinking and reinventing Social Networking software. # § Collaboration, Social_Networking, Software, Uncategorized
Coolest thing I've ever seen demo-ed by MS Research. # § Cool, Graphics, Microsoft, Photography, Software, Uncategorized, Video
Makers of Enso, a verbose less symbolic version of Quicksilver. # § HCI, Software, Uncategorized
For making tumblelogs, which are short-attention span blogs. Which is redundant. Was a neologism for this actually necessary? # § Blogs, Neologism, Software, Uncategorized
Wasn't he king of the Hill People? Oh, wait, that was Lothar. Yes obscure Mike Meyers. The right people will get it. # § Anonymity, Privacy, Software, Uncategorized
The nice thing about Open Source development is that you get to use nice things, something that's just not possible in corp-orama. # § CRM, Open-Source, Software, Uncategorized
Get RSS feeds in Outlook. Free-er than Newsgator. [via gtdwannabe] # § RSS, Software, Uncategorized
"Hanson on Rails":http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6170: bq.:http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6170 Rails is opinionated software. It eschews placing the old ideals of software in a primary position. One of those ideals is flexibility—the notion that we should try to accommodate as many approaches as possible, that we shouldn't pass judgement on one form of development over another. Well, Rails does, and I believe that's why it works. # § Frameworks, Interviews, People, Ruby, Software, Uncategorized
Kick ayuss. Nicely played. # § Ergonomics, Software
"Myghty":http://www.myghty.org/: A Python templating library based on "HTML::Mason":http://www.masonhq.com/. Somewhere in the early history of the _roll your own_ period of this blog, I used (and loved using) Mason. Hence this _Mad founding fathers' religion_ prop! # § Software
"NINJAM":http://www.ninjam.com over the internets. Jam with others over the internet using Ogg Vorbis compression. Imagine being able to have a _pickup_ jam session with anyone who happens to be online at the same time you are. Niceness. From the makers of Winamp, Gnutella, mlIpod, etc. Ok, really Justin Frankel. # § Software
While scrutiny and interest in "Rails":http://www.rubyonrails.org is currently the flamefest du jour among the _my language/framework is greater than your language/framework_ cabal, another Ruby project that has garnered acclaim and considerably less controversy has to be "Instiki":http://www.instiki.org, a Ruby-based wiki. It is the easiest, most elegant and least annoying wiki I have installed and it comes with different formatting plugins like markdown and "textile":http://hobix.com/textile/quick.html (my personal favorite) that makes writing much less painful than using plain HTML. In fact, I was taken with writing in textile so much, I now use it to write in the _blog_. More to the point and where it counts, I'm still using instiki everyday, nearly two months after the initial installation to document my thoughts and hold anything of interest I find on the web that doesn't fit "del.icio.us":http://del.icio.us or the blog. There are, however, a couple of side-effects that are a direct byproduct of instiki's ease of use. Instiki is extremely easy to install because it creates its own simple web server; no outside configuration, a simple command line startup (or double-click the instiki.app in OSX), no mess. This, however (as far as I know), makes it difficult for instiki play nice with any existing apache installations. Which means you can't run instiki as an apache handler to a particular folder off your main site. This is cumbersome only if you want to be able to access your instiki installation from the real world outside of your home router. My workaround is to run your local instiki with a changed port for security and grab a dynamic dns name from the venerable "dyndns":http://www.dyndns.org. Then you can access your instiki box using [yourspecialname].dyndns.org:[changed port number] from anywhere. What I would love to be able to do next with instiki is use it directly as a blogging tool, with the ability to import or export entries from other well known CMSes. However, the greatest thing about it right now is its utter simplicity; if any changes to the project were to detract from that singular feature, I would say it's better to leave great enough alone. # § Software
Note to vim users: This is a great tip on how to use vim as an external editor in any windows application that understands the control-a keyboard command. This means you can effectively use vim whenever you are editing a textarea in your browser or replying to an email in Outlook, although the latter is probably not going to make a lot of sense unless you are creating or replying to an email in plain text. Actually, come to think of it, using vim as an editor for anything is not going to make a whole lot of sense unless you actually like to use it. But then again, I'm already the king of not making sense: I not only use vim, I also use the Dvorak keyboard layout. # § Software, Text Editors