Archive for February, 2006:

When did Linux become mainstream?

{ Posted on Feb 27 2006 by david }
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Categories : Misc, Technology
I read an article on lxer.com which talks about perceived changes in the culture of LinuxToday.com. It blames the widespread adoption of Linux as the culprit which shooed away the hard-core geeks from the site. Of course Linux adoption was ...Read More »

Setup MarsEdit with Quills 0.9 Final

{ Posted on Feb 25 2006 by david }
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Categories : Geek, How-To, Technology
I have been wanting to find a better way to write blogs rather than using the Plone interface. I was happy to find that MarsEdit and Quills both implement several blog APIs. Though it would appear that the implementation for ...Read More »

Design Patterns – The Decorator

{ Posted on Feb 14 2006 by david }
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Categories : Design Patterns, Programming
Tonight was the second night of my design patterns meeting I hold with some friends from work. Most of us already had the book Head First Design Patterns by O’Reilly Publishing, but never made the time to go through it. ...Read More »

Added AdSense by Google

{ Posted on Feb 14 2006 by david }
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Categories : How-To, Technology
One thing that I like about Google is that they make things easy. One thing that I like about Plone and Zope is that they make things easy. In about an hour or two, I managed to put AdSense ads on my ...Read More »

New Canon Digital Rebel XT

{ Posted on Feb 13 2006 by david }
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Categories : Photography, Reviews
There is a huge difference moving from a low-end digital camera to a digital SLR - and it feels really good! Last week I received my Canon Digital Rebel XT from Dell. It’s my third digital camera in 6 years and ...Read More »