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It’s hot! The first sight of the firey face of summer? Perhaps so. I’ve not been in this house for a summer yet, but I think it’s going to be okay. I’m even rather looking forward to it. Getting home from work, cracking open a beer, sitting down to… well, fiddle with Semantic Mediawiki as [...]
[Keywords: boring posts, e-volunteering, NaBloPoMo] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I am trying to get my head around all of the various places that Fremantle features (regularly, topically) on the Web. I want to figure out where the Fremantle Society’s website fits in, and what it might be used for (what might be missing from elsewhere). So I started from the outside, yesterday, and moved [...]
[Keywords: Blogging, community, Fremantle, Fremantle City Council, Fremantle Society, History, journalism, NaBloPoMo, recording, semantic web, websites, Wikimedia, Wikipedia] [One comment] [Permanent link]
I have been pulling my hair out this morning trying to get the PHP Fileinfo extension working under PHP 5.2.14 on Windows Server 2003 SE. Actually, to be accurate: I’ve been trying to get the PHP Fileinfo extension working; the pulling out of hair is a normal occurrence when doing anything on a Windows server, [...]
[Keywords: Fileinfo, Pecl, PHP, Windows] [5 comments] [Permanent link]
@stevenwalling Thanks for the kudos re #TwentyTen theme port!
Stone found my website, and couldn’t find even a single mention of him. So now there is.
Last week I needed a simple, reader-focused skin for a MediaWiki install, and I figured WordPress’ TwentyTen theme would be suitable. So I ported it to MediaWiki. The skin can be downloaded from Github, and I’ve also added it to the MediaWiki gallery of user styles.
[Keywords: design, MediaWiki, porting, skinning, themes, TwentyTen, Wikis, wordpress] [5 comments] [Permanent link]
A big audience this evening for Richard Stallman at the Hyatt in Perth: a sharp divide between the suits and the t-shirts. RMS does not seem to quite gel with the ACS! In fact, David Clarke, in introducing him, said that he had no idea that the talk would be of interest to so many [...]
[Keywords: Australian Computer Society, community, David Clarke, Free Culture, Free Software Foundation, freedom, GNU, Richard Stallman, RMS] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Just back from Nanga. A wonderful weekend. I’m just posting a few photos here now, because otherwise I know I’ll never get around to it. I am far too tired to think about writing anything meaningful about any of it! Goodnight.
Off to Nanga for the weekend! Huzza!!
Why is it that when I’m tired I want no text other than ink on paper?! That the screen drags me onwards, the keyboard hooks me forwards…?
A photo from #RoelLoopers of a #FremantlePorts line crew: http://freoview.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/out-of-the-blues/
I have recently started helping to maintain The Fremantle Society’s website (fremantlesociety.org.au), and it’s reminding me of why I work in IT and of how much I’ve been missing being part of any greater endevour (with people, I mean, and working together for some purpose — as I once did with the Coop, for instance). [...]
[Keywords: causes, collaboration, Fremantle, Fremantle Society, heritage, MediaWiki, technology, The Co-operative Food Shop, websites] [No comments] [Permanent link]
In which I try to implement column sorting in WebDB, but end up building a general system for persisting query string variables between HTTP requests. Sort of. In the old, Zend-based, WebDB, column sort order was passed as a $_GET parameter and then stored in per-table variables in $_SESSION. In the index controller, both were [...]
[Keywords: columns, Kohana, redirecting, sessions, sorting, URI, WebDB, Zend] [No comments] [Permanent link]
#Finns now have the legal #right to #broadband access: http://gu.com/p/2t4g8
The ANU Food Co-operative is now called the Food Co-op Shop, and (thanks to a pint bottle of Little Creatures Pale, and an hour or so of shuffling files around and fiddling with databases when I got home from work this evening) can now be found online at www.foodco-opshop.com.au. Long live the Coop!! Hurrah!
[Keywords: ANU, Canberra, Food Co-op, Posts written when drunk, The Co-operative Food Shop, websites] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Thanks to the wonderful people on Stackoverflow, I’m making some progress with figuring out how some geographic information is saved in a DB2 database that I’m working with. it turns out that, rather than using the spatial functionality of DB2 (which would make sense, but considering the source of this database, I wouldn’t ask for [...]
[Keywords: bc_base_convert, GIS, MGA, Morton codes, PHP, UTM, Work, Z-order (curve)] [No comments] [Permanent link]
First feedback about #WebDB: http://forum.kohanaframework.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=6112 . Hurrah for #Kohana!
[Keywords: WebDB] [No comments] [Permanent link]
High on coffee, and I’m setting up a demo site for #WebDB A good morning.
For the past month or so I have been working on rebuilding my little database interface — called WebDB — as a Kohana module. It’s now ready for a first alpha release; you can find it at github.com/samwilson/kohana_webdb. I’ll be putting a demo up soon, and hopefully getting a project set up for it at [...]
[Keywords: databases, Kohana, WebDB] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I have returned to Facebook! And identi.ca, and my blog… it seems to be time to rejoin the ‘social’ world. Hello, world.
Someone here at work wanted to know how to add a three-page PDF to a Word document, and then add a dozen photos after it, and then save the whole mess as a new PDF. I suggested ImageMagick’s convert and pdftk. Combine all the images into one PDF: $ convert *.jpg photos.pdf Put the two [...]
[Keywords: concatenation, image manipulation, JPG, PDFs] [No comments] [Permanent link]
This morning I’m returning to work on some code that I haven’t touched for a few months, and I’ve been rather dreading getting back to it. I’ve forgotten all the details; never knew many of them anyway. I was working with someone else on this, and so have to get my head around their work [...]
[Keywords: documentation, Donald Knuth, javadoc, Literate Programming] [No comments] [Permanent link]
The news that Flickr Commons is full prompted me, yesterday afternoon, to cycle down to Cantonment Hill to get some photos to add to the hill’s Wikipedia article. Why? Because I added a short note to Wikinews the other day about the imminent return of the hill to the FCC; and because I was reminded [...]
[Keywords: Cantonment Hill, Commons, photography, Wikimedia] [No comments] [Permanent link]
