Category Archives: Articles
The Power of Prototyping
This is the first in what will be a series of blog posts for the Mozilla-Knight Journalism Challenge. This week we heard from Aza Raskin, former creative lead for Firefox and head of user experience for Mozilla, talking about the power of prototyping for understanding problems and building momentum behind your solution. Continue reading
World leaders delay climate agreement beyond Copenhagen Summit
Today at the APEC summit, President Obama announced that top world leaders would not form a binding, global agreement on CO2 emissions reduction at the Copenhagen Summit this December. They … Continue reading
Experience importing an existing Drupal site to Aegir
(Cross-posted from the Aegir group on Drupal.org. Aegir is a brilliant new framework for managing web sites built in Drupal – upgrading, migrating, enabling, disabling and so, SO much more.) … Continue reading
The Number One Hit for “Arsehole”
(Cross-posted from Tawtof) Ah Google. Any company that can have three copies of the Internet just kind of lying around is awesome to behold. And Google Image Search is a … Continue reading
Mah Finance Sector Is Too Big
[Note: Credit for these ideas must go to many people, particularly Joshua Zeidner and Matthew Slater, both of whom are working on mutual credit, LETS and other alternative currency systems. … Continue reading
A Story About Stories
This is a piece I performed for the Northcote Storyteller’s Club today. It’s been an odd day, preceded by an even odder night – but that’s another story. I hope … Continue reading
Sending HTML Email with Wicket part II: Converting links
In my previous post, I showed how you can use Wicket‘s HTML rendering engine to render HTML emails by faking a request/response cycle. In this post, I’ll show you how … Continue reading
Render a Wicket page to a string for HTML email
Something that’s very desirable to do in Apache Wicket is create HTML emails using Wicket’s brilliant component-oriented markup. I’ve been working on this problem on and off for ages — … Continue reading
Free SMS service notifications using Google Calendar
Today I had a small revelation. I was wracking my brains trying to figure out the SMS messaging provider to use to send myself service outage notifications for my clients’ … Continue reading
Training Junk Mail filter using Apple Mail and GMail IMAP Connector
Like most people, I get literally thousands of spam messages a month. I never see them, of course, because they’re filtered out by Gmail’s incredible spam filtering system. This is … Continue reading