Software
I’ve Been a Bit Busy Lately, but Here are Some Python/Django Project Updates
I’ve been a bit busy lately, between schoolwork and web design but here are the latest updates…
django-staticpages version 0.10 will be released on Sunday night – Since I’ve been working on a client’s project, several new use cases for the Django application have been recognized. The biggest change will be in the ordering of Menu [...]
Have you ever heard of StumbleUpon?
StumbleUpon is one of the most powerful Firefox plug-ins I have ever used and is “recommended” by the Mozilla team. Basically it is a toolbar add-on for Firefox which allows you to “stumble” through the Internet. Well, not quite the Internet but something even better: a subset of the Internet grouped into categories that users [...]
EU Regulations on Microsoft now seem absurd; my anti-anti-Microsoft self
It’s just another Saturday morning and the geek in me checks for tech news. In the headlines is the puzzling headline: “Microsoft: No browserless Windows 7 after all.” I’m starting to get sick of all this anti-Microsoft bullshit (apparently Linus Torvalds, the founder or Linux, agrees). If you wanted to analyze Apple and Microsoft we [...]
A word to all SugarCRM Community Edition 5.2.0X users trying to upgrade
Maybe it’s just me forgetting the steps I take to update my copy of the excellent SugarCRM 5.2 but I thought I would write a little on how to upgrade SugarCRM Community Edition because I forget how every time and maybe I’m not the only one .
If you’re the administrator and logged into Sugar [...]
Google releases Chrome .deb file for Linux
While this may not be the latest news, I’d thought I’d share that Google Chrome is now available for Linux. The previous link takes you to a page where you can subscribe for Linux updates but if you scroll to the bottom, you can actually download a .deb file directly. But you are forewarned well [...]
Solving Vista Update Issues by Brute Force
Contrary to most of the reviews about Windwos Vista and all of its issues, I’ve had very few problems and those that have occurred are usually my fault! It is true that Vista has problems with business networking and other more advanced features of the operating system, but for the home user (Home Premium), I [...]
Educational projects formalized
In the course of this blog, I have started several projects that are educational in nature. These include:
Rethinking Witchcraft: Revisionist History from an evolutionary bioligcal perspective – http://ryankaskel.terapad.com/
Ryan’s Swahili Verb List – http://swahiliverbs.ryankaskel.com/
RyanKaskel.com Educational Software (my newest project) – http://edusoft.ryankaskel.com/
Please visit these sights. They reveal a lot of my internal beliefs. I am also a [...]
Custom colors for emacs
All nerds know about the epic geek battle between vim and emacs, the two most popular text editors for Unix and Unix-like systems (i.e. Linux, because calling “Linux” without the prefix “GNU” pisses Richard Stallman off so much, I will never call Linux GNU/Linux. That guy has got to learn when enough is enough.) Anyway, [...]
Strange SVN error involving an HTTP 405 error
Version control is the heart of any development project. I use Subversion but it seems like major projects (e.g. the Linux kernel and Perl) are using distributed repositories like Git. Oh well. I am a “single” developer and Subversion does the trick for me.
I develop on a lot of machines and therefore have a lot [...]
What links do my users click on? Part 1
These days there are plenty of services available to track user statistics, like, for example, Google Analytics. These services usually work by having you include a JavaScript file which then sends data to their servers. The data is then displayed in pretty reports where you can browse all the site statistics you’ll ever want.
What if [...]
