Today will be filled with arrangement practicalities, and the actual conference starts tomorrow at 9:15 am. All the previous OSCOM events I've attended have been fun, and I'm expecting an interesting three days filled with discussion, new CMS ideas, and quite a few presentations. Despite the early departure the flights went without incident, and I had time to read some...
Some quick notes: Outside old city centers the buildings made after beginning of 60s have so thin walls that they provide essentially no cover There are aerosol weapons which shoot a gas-filled projectile into a room. The projectile then fills the room with an explosive gas Chechens have learned to combat this by moving their positions inwards in the buildings...
This blog has now been successfully converted to the UTF-8 character encoding. This enables using non-western characters in any part of this site. НЕ РЛОХО! This was all made possible using Torben's handy MidCOM UTF-8 HOWTO. Please report if you note any issues. Note: Newsticker's MetaWebLog API support doesn't seem to work 100% reliably on UTF-8. ecto seems to support...
Inspired by the public betas of MarsEdit and NetNewsWire, I looked up an old MetaWebLog API support patch I had made for the blogging and news ticker tool of Midgard CMS, de.linkm.newsticker. I modernized the patch a bit and committed it to MidCOM CVS. This means that all Midgard CMS installations using the new version will provide support for desktop...
My friend and colleague Kaukola got hitched last weekend. We had a good time in the bachelor party last August, involving military exercises, zorb balls, sauna and aerobatics. However, the actual wedding celebrations provided me with the scariest experience so far during the year. I've hiked in the arctic, fallen under a train in Russia, faced angry elephants and climbed...
OpenPSA is an Open Source Professional Services Automation system built on top of Midgard and PHP. The system provides management tools for software companies and consultancies. The modules include project management, CRM, help desk and group calendaring.
The Series 5 has two major advantages when compared to laptops: it is small and has a very long battery life. In addition, I happen to have a spare one lying around. We've used this palmtop previously for keeping the travel journals of two motorcycle trips, the 2002 European tour and the 2003 Russian tour. The journals were written using...
In addition, Jakob Nielsen has posted an interesting piece on standard elements in web design. His recommendations include several conventions, like always placing a logo link to top-left corner and the search box to top-right corner.
In addition, there is now a new promotional website, spreadfirefox.com in beta release. Spread the word. Upgrading both Firefox and Thunderbird from earlier releases went quite painlessly on my Mac OS X box. And now Thunderbird has a cool RSS reader so following my blog will be easier than ever ;-) Updated 2004-09-15 18:48: The Firefox upgrade actually had some...
The "messaging device" has a crappy CIF camera, but I think that still the ease of taking photos helps to make my site more live.The procedure for posting a photo is the following:Take a photo with the cameraSelect "sent" from the options -> "send as MMS"Type the photo caption to the MMSSelect "send as email"Then the photo gets sent via...