I’ve been reinstalling a lot of Windows machines lately (cleaning house and such), and just wanted to jot down a list of apps I’ll install before doing anything else. To get the base system running, so to speak, mostly as a reminder to my future self.
Although I now have moved on — for most part — from PHP, I am still maintaining a number of websites build on top of Joomla. Ever since Joomla 3.0 was released, Joomla 1.5 has reached end-of-life status, meaning that there will be no more updates nor security fixes for …
Just a small post. I’ve been using this project lately to set up some quick static-only-but-Markdown-enabled project pages for a while now.
Basically, it allows you to set up a static website with minimal theming, but with the content rendering offloaded to the browser (in Javascript) instead of relying …
This was going to be a short “list” post, but expanded to something a little bit larger.
Recently, I’ve acquired a shiny new Dell XPS laptop. The exact specs are not important; compared to almost a decennia ago, phones, laptops, desktops and tablets have gained such a commodity-status that …
Update: new post and source code here.
So last weekend, I’d almost finished editing a Word manuscript draft to submit to a particular journal, except for one final item on the todo list: converting the existing list of references (inserted and formatted as a plain text list) to another …
Another one of these things I always end up forgetting: setting up a Linux (in this case: Ubuntu) server so that users can login using a VNC client and get a (slim) desktop.
First thing you need to do is make sure you have a VNC server (tightvncserver), desktop apps …
This post describes how you can create a Python interpreter for a Bukkit Minecraft server, providing access to the full internal API. Commands are issued on a separate console window and do not require players or server administrators to be running the game itself.
Following list provides …