Appalachian: an MIT Firefox Extension

The MIT SIMILE Project has developed an interestingly named Firefox extension for managing multiple OpenID nicknames. Appalachian leverages the OpenID authentication solution, and features one-click sign-in, management of multiple nicknamed OpenIDs, and protection against phising attacks.
If you’re using Firefox, you can download the Appalachian extension, and easily get started. There are numerous project resources available, [...]

Debian Etch on VirtualBox (Mac OS X)

For a change of pace, I’ll not be blabbing about random crap in a rabid manner today. Rather, I’m going to do a little HOWTO on installing Debian 4 “Etch” (for x86)  under the fantastic x86 virtualization package, VirtualBox on Mac OS X.
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Whither Jaiku?

I’ve been a fan of Jaiku for about six months, having gotten an invite from that awesome outlaw, Fabian Scherschel. Even though I don’t currently do a whole lot of microblogging, I think Jaiku is a clear winner, being that it  has a richer feature set, and generally doesn’t completely suck, unlike Twitter. Lately though, [...]

Adeona: For simple users and dumb thieves

Not to pick on any one of the catch a thief in the act and Lojack style stolen laptop tracking software solutions out there (too much), but really, these solutions are designed for people who take no pains to secure their machines in the most basic sense to begin with!
If you haven’t heard the fanfare [...]

Bitbucket: like hosted Trac with Mercurial

I’ve been using the Mercurial distributed version control system for projects which require any kind of VCS for years now. I have these folks1 to thank for the introduction to this fine solution for managing versions of complex projects involving [...]I cut my teeth on hg through constant daily with certain documentation projects at rPath [...]

Yo ho ho and a haul of reddit treasure!

I’ve been visiting reddit for a couple years now, mostly lurking, but never really submitting links or commenting. When I learned that reddit was being released under an open source license, I quite literally checked out the code the same day, and commenced to tinkering!
While chatter and fanfare across the intartubes rolled on, even the [...]

Drupy: Porting the Drupal CMS to Python

Had I not taken a look at the project page, I probably would have thought that anyone pointing this project out was either crazy or engaged in a bout of wishful thinking, or both! Alas, it is quite real though, and stirs up all kinds of wobbly thoughts in me on the subject:
Drupy is a [...]

jQuery Mania!

I’ve been a fan of jQuery since around the time it started creeping into Drupal back in the early 5.x days. The philosophy of progressive user experience enhancement with graceful degradation in the absence of JavaScript is something I think everyone can agree makes the web more exciting these days. (more…)

SCO Delisted - Nelson Comments!

I cannot help but wonder how a publicly traded corporation can refer to themselves as a “leading” anything when they’ve just been delisted from said public trading. I reckon that’s what you get when you agree to be used as a tool of the great Satan (Redmond division).