Monthly Archives: February 2008

Local Development: Installing Mambo

Mambo is an open source Content Management System (CMS) that was originally developed in Australia as a commercial application in 2000 and was subsequently released to the open source community.  It takes advantage of the traditional Apache/MySQL/PHP stack which makes … Continue reading

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The problem with AIR

I got carried away last night commenting on this Read/Write Web post about 6 new Adobe AIR apps.  For anyone unfamiliar, AIR or Adobe Integrated Runtime (so that’s Adobe Adobe Integrated Runtime, really) is Adobe’s effort at bringing Rich Internet … Continue reading

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The Week That Was – the "Well, DUH!" edition

… Is Facebook doomed? – Scobleizer … Facebook fatigue – visitors level off in the US – Techcrunch … Facebook’s UK usership drops . Just temporary? – Mashable! … Like, Facebook is so over, dude – mathewingram.com/work … and the … Continue reading

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Local Development: How to install Movable Type 4 on your local machine

Movable Type is a blogging engine developed by Six Apart (other notable Six Apart products are the hosted blog solutions Typepad and Vox).  The latest version, MT 4.1, is available under a range of licenses including free for personal use, … Continue reading

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Virtual time – the trap of social networking

Socialising and networking takes time. A lot of time.  The more friends you have, the more time you need. There are phone calls, emails, letters (honest-to-god by hand, on paper letters – they do exist – look it up if … Continue reading

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The year that will be: a closer look at predictions for 2008

Part way into the new year is usually a pretty good time to reflect back upon the predictions made for the upcoming months.  With a bit of luck last year’s hype has begun to fade away and some patterns of … Continue reading

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Local Development: Installing WordPress

WordPress is a free (as in beer and speech) open source blogging engine originally built upon the code of the b2 blogging engine.  In time it has become one of the most well known and used platforms in the blogosphere … Continue reading

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A first look at Second Brain

The brain child of Norwegian entrepreneur Lars Teigen, Second Brain bills itself as a “social content aggregator that helps people collect, organize, search and share content from multiple online services in a single library“.  In short, Second Brain is yet … Continue reading

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m.theWeekThatWas – the mobile edition

The Commentariat can’t decide if Google’s Android mobile phone operating system is gathering steam or lagging behind. Warfare is declared between a mobile browser that doesn’t even have an alpha and a much loved but cut down version of a … Continue reading

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Local Development: Installing XAMPP

There will come a time when the beginner blogger wants to take more control and choose to host their own blog. When it comes to development, testing design tweaks, different templates, plug-in compatibility and overall usability, nothing beats having a … Continue reading

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