Micheas Herman

... life on the left coast.

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My first Facebook App

Saturday, 18 October 2008 19:15 Micheas Herman
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Last weekend I went to BADCamp (I know. I know. A Joomla! user at BADCamp — heathen)

I picked up three really cool things.

  • An introduction to Jquery. (this should become its own post.)
  • YUI for setting up websites. (not standards compliant but a really fast way of making multicolumn tableless designs.
  • Facebook and Drupal integration. &endash; the inspiration for this project.
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Flock

Tuesday, 15 July 2008 05:56 Micheas Herman
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When I started using Linux in 1996 I spent a lot of time looking for a web browser that I liked.

Netscape 4 worked. somewhat. but iframes required IE5 or mozilla. so I installed mozilla, found bugs that were fixed in cvs so I started to have a nightly cron job that pulled  cvs HEAD and built mozilla. Then I found galeon.

 

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Linux Mint

Friday, 11 July 2008 20:56 Micheas Herman
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On Tuesday I booted Linux Mint on a computer that gets a fair amount of walk in traffic that uses the computer for surfing the web.

One thing that I had never seen before was compiz working with no user configuration and as the default window manager.

Windows XP had been servicable, but there have been issues about what is being downloaded on the machine.

 

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Subversion 1.5 is out!

Friday, 11 July 2008 07:04 Micheas Herman
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Subversion generally does a good job of pulling updates from an upstream repository and merging in your local modifications, but sometimes subversion cannot handle the changes.

Subversions response to these eventualities has change dramatically in 1.5

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