Reflecting on people and places I’ve visited the home desktop PC seems to be a thing of the past. Now you can buy tricked out consoles for gaming, e-readers, lightweight netbooks and smart phones for connectivity on the move. Why would we want desktops in our homes? This morning I was listening to a discussion… Read More »
I’ve been setting up my development environment for building PHP based web applications. Since I’m an Eclipse geek I decided to try out the Aptana suite. I thought I’d jot down a few thoughts. The installation of Aptana is through the Eclipse update manager. Simple stuff. After you reload the IDE you’re presented with the… Read More »
I’ve finally updated my publications page. I’ve been using the bib2html plugin for wordpress. It does a rather good job but if you’ve advice on a better option I’d love it hear it.
I’ve been a tweeter on twitter since May 2007 (signed up during a slow conference session). It started as a way to keep in touch with friends and colleagues in remote places; now it is kind of a habit. Since my tweets go out on the public timeline I am mildly considerate about what I… Read More »
I’ve been messing with my domain registration and sites on webfaction. One update nuked my wordpress install. I spotted that loading www.steveneely.org was also hitting other domains I own. The problem was that my domain updates had somehow altered the URLs that wordpress stores in its database (hyperlinks on blog pages were wrong and the… Read More »
As our RTW trip comes to an end I thought I’d document how I’ve stayed connected to my life in the e-world. These things are my sanity ties back to regular living: Google Reader: blogs from friends, colleagues, ACM/IEEE publications and fun sites like PhD Comics Podcasts: BBC Newspod, Buzz Out Loud, Guardian Science weekly,… Read More »
I was just trying to upgrade WP 2.7 to 2.7.1 and got this error: “Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.7.1.zip Unpacking the core update Fatal error: Cannot redeclare pclziputilpathreduction() (previously declared in /home/sneely/webapps/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/lib/pclzip.lib.php:5421)” It turns out that the problem was from the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin. Ryan posts that this is because WP 2.7 has its own… Read More »
Clearly travelling and updating this blog are not compatible. To increase the activity here at steveneely.org I’ve installed http://rick.jinlabs.com/code/twitter/ to display my recent tweets. It was a simple download and unzip to wp-content/themes task. I had to update my WP theme as the old one didn’t support widgets properly, so we’ve got a new look… Read More »
I’ve installed EEE Ubuntu on my eee pc. The default xandros install is not active enough or up to date. It was a constant battle to get new libs ad apps on xandros. I noticed that FF3 runs slow as a 3 legged asthmatic dog and just found the solution. The 900 has two drives:… Read More »
I just spent too much time looking at colour bars on a webpage we were building. The top flash menu versus the bottom div looked different. But the colour codes were the same. I’d been caught out by the viewing-angle dependence of LCD screens. “Eh?”, you say. Well, it turns out the colour or hue… Read More »