On Linux, Web Development, Joomla and Magento commerce
Some Interesting Javascript – I am no JS guru, so comments are welcome ExtJS – an interesting javascript library with some half-decent documentation and community, as well as paid support and alternative licensing Shortcut.js – Keyboard enable your web application – this is something that’s seriously needed. I have seen bank tellers migrate from Terminal …
Continue reading “Links for the day – Javascript for Rich Internet Applications”
Is it just me or is this the year of open source? That ever elusive “year of Linux” may not arrive but certainly, it seems the virus of open source is taking hold. It certainly is happening in the kind of Web2.0 projects we are seeing coming up, and many businesses are choosing open business …
Whether you are trying to study for your RHCE, MCSE, Solaris, Linux+ or some University exams or maybe even trying to learn a new language, having some flashcards can be extremely helpful – for both short-term and long-term learning. I have a pretty good system setup: cross-platform, remote learning. I have played with both Jmemorize …
Continue reading “Open Source Flashcard Learning with Granule or Jmemorize”
A good article from Lifehacker came through today about extending Launchy. It details using the Curl library and some batch scripts – it’s given me a few ideas on how to extend launchy Go and read it here Technorati Tags: launchy, lifehacker, curl, batch scripts Powered by ScribeFire.
The weekend saw me doing a Motherboard / CPU / HDD upgrade on one of our household’s PC’s – It’s a Windows 2003 server that had an IDE drive in it and the new Mobo was SATA. The day before, the system wouldn’t boot – some cool bad sector business had caused it. So, I …
Continue reading “What Windows Needs – Synaptic (or any other package manager)”
Update May 2009: If you made it here trying to find how to write Django apps for Facebook, probably the best resource I have seen to get started is
Something that was not obvious to me when using NX client was the ability to get out of fullscreen. I initially thought that they just hadn’t implemented it as yet.. but we are now on version 3 and I thought that the mere oversight should have been fixed by now. Well, I don’t know if …
I am very much into music (and I don’t own an IPOD!) and not quite your normal, radio delivered stuff either – I have a passion for World Music – here’s a bit of a list of some of my favourites – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Fela Kuti, Orchestra Baobab, Fania All Stars, Tinariwen, Cesaria …
Continue reading “Amarok, Listen, Exaile!, Banshee and Last.fm”
Seems I am a bit slow to the party on Yubnub – I guess I kind of see it like a cross between the unix command line and the vi of search engines – it has modes, commands and even split screens: For example: ls australia gives you all the yubnub commands that include Australia. …
Continue reading “Google on Steroids or vi for search engines – Yubnub”
I remember watching the first screencasts of Ruby on Rails and seeing class structures appear as the author was typing and it was almost like “fill in the blanks” – then I found out it was Textmate, then I found it was a Mac only thing.. that left me out – anyways (Nacho libre spanish …