Author Archives: Shane Perris
Local Development: How to install Joomla on your local Windows machine
Joomla! is a free and open source content management system with just about everything a webmaster could ask for. Originally created as a fork of the Mambo content management system (see how to install Mambo on Windows for more information … Continue reading
Why Nine Inch Nails is NOT the future model of music
Trent Reznor, the creative force behind Nine Inch Nails, has caused a stir with the release of the new NIN album ‘Ghosts I-IV‘. True to recent form (including berating record labels over pricing of NIN product and encouraging fans at … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
