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NewsCloud: NewsCloud Facebook Application Released via Open Source

Kellan — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:34:01 +0000

If you’ve played with the the F8 platform from Facebook you’ve probably found the documentation incomplete, the examples inaccurate, and a dearth of running code to learn from. F8 is not view sourceable. So Jeff’s app should help you get started.

http://blog.newscloud.com/2007/06/newscloud_faceb.html

Google Code: google-rfc-2445 recurrences

Kellan — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:33:00 +0000

Google Calendar’s implementation of RFC 2445 repeating events. Apache 2.0 license. Java.

http://code.google.com/p/google-rfc-2445/

Swift: Safari on Windows

Kellan — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:55:00 +0000

Sweet.

http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/09/safari-on-windows/

filtr!

Kellan — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:32:00 +0000

now everyone can make pictures as pretty as aaron (given artisitc talent, and FreeBSD chops of course)

http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2006/07/31/baconmelon/#filtr

How many times..

Kellan — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 05:53:00 +0000

Is Matt going to get dragged out of the closet? Funny thing is I heard that WP had taken Polaris funding last September. Anyone else hearing that this is old news, poorly disclosed?

http://photomatt.net/2006/04/12/a-little-funding/

Doug Cutting: I’m now a “Yahoo!”.

Kellan — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 03:21:00 +0000

Yahoo moves closer to it’s “got to collect ‘em all” goals. Congrats! (Lucene is on my short list of best software ever)

http://nutch.sourceforge.net/blog/2006/03/im-now-yahoo.html

Is the Zend Framework GPL compatible?

Kellan — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:57:00 +0000

Still in pre-release, but Joshua’s initial research suggests no.

http://blog.joshuaeichorn.com/archives/2006/03/05/zend-framework-license/

First Innobase, and now Sleepy Cat?

Kellan — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:01:00 +0000

Oracle is making a serious play to either get into the open source DB space… or to destroy it. Does MySQL have a transactional backend left that Oracle doesn’t own?

http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-6039070.html

bbPress vs. Vanilla?

Kellan — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:57:00 +0000

I’m not really a web forums type guy, but the light weight interfaces of bbPress and Vanilla do a lot to redeem the medium. Anyone got a preference from using them?

Also anyone have a mbox import script for importing old list traffic?

Part of the very slow, long running process of re-launching the Magpie site, and breaking my Sourceforge dependency.

Pirate Testing (Because Only Ninjas Write Unit Tests)

Kellan — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 06:54:00 +0000

I’ve got a new favorite development technique, “pirate testing”. I’ve used it on 3 recent projects, and it rocks.

And while Sam might have meant it literally, I’ve found it perfectly describes the practice of shanghaiing another tool’s test suite to given your own TDD a jump start.

(n.b.: May be harder in languages which don’t allow reopening of classes. aka monkey patching)

I’m sure Boris Zbarsky is a wonderful person

Kellan — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:25:00 +0000

But could someone maybe distract him long enough (a night on the town?) to get the damn phantom text nodes in Firefox fixed?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26179

Caucho adds PHP support to Resin

Kellan — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 05:36:00 +0000

and apparently it runs 4x faster using ab and mediawiki to benchmark!

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=38144

Ruby on Rails 1.0 is out

Kellan — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:30:00 +0000

And clearly 37s didn’t feel like they were getting enough mileage from the old site. :-/

http://rubyonrails.org/

“To sum up: its hard, we’re lazy, and you’re the first person who’s asked for it”

Kellan — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 20:29:00 +0000

On open source, and feature requests

http://dotnot.org/blog/archives/2005/11/03/great-email-template-for-feature-request-responses/

“it’s kind of fitting that one of the few startups in silicon valley to immediately go cash positive is a non-profit;”

Kellan — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 01:12:00 +0000

Firefox is making $30mil off of its Google search box. (old news I guess, but first I’ve heard it.)

http://markpincus.typepad.com/markpincus/2005/05/firefox_foxy_ca.html

PHP Wiki Experience?

Kellan — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:59:00 +0000

Thought I’d check to see if anyone has any experience with the PHP wiki offerings, especially DokuWiki, or PmWiki?

I’m looking for something suitable for building out a FAQ, and docs site for Magpie. I’m disinclined towards MediaWiki because I’ve found Kwiki’s approach of using the filesystem for data storage a plus, and because I don’t anticipate a need for MathML support, or other such esoterica.

Currently leaning towards DokuWiki partially on the suggestive nature of the name (sounds like “documentation”), and partially on Harry’s 2004 SitePoint review. Possibly supplemented by Bamboo, which is a lot like a Hieraki for PHP.

Praise, disagreement, experiences, resources?

Paul has relaunched mediageek on WP

Kellan — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:48:00 +0000

Heart warming to see more cool, radical folks moving to free codebases.

http://www.mediageek.net/

Bug 26179 – Mozilla reports existence of phantom text nodes in the DOM

Kellan — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:51:00 +0000

this bug has been open for 4 years, and it makes a good chunk of the DOM useless

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26179

Explorer Destroyer – Switch to Firefox, Make money from Adsense

Kellan — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:57:00 +0000

I’m debating if this is cool, obnoxious, or both

http://www.explorerdestroyer.com/

Opensource Usability

Kellan — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 04:05:00 +0000

Cleaning out the notebook tonight, I found this pithy summation of the tension between usability and open source.

Opensource’s central dogma is “scratch your own itch”, usability’s central dogma is “you are not your own user.”

Bam, loggerheads.