Category Archives: Programming
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
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
Git in one minute
Based on notes from a recent BarCamp, here’s my one-minute introduction to Git, a distributed revision control system (a system for managing collaborative changes to files, usually used for software … Continue reading
Synchonising Google contacts with your OS X Address Book without an iPhone
So, I lost my iPhone a while ago and that was annoying. Then my annoyance doubled when I realised that my Google contacts were no longer being synced to my … Continue reading
Guest Appearance on Byte Into It
Last week on Melbourne’s 3RRR, Georgia Webster, Andrew Fish, Keren Flavell and myself discussed Windows 7, TinyXP, iPhone security, defamation, video games, the seeming success of the Australian ‘net filtering … Continue reading
Brix Rules
Ok, so I’ve been playing with Brix, a CMS toolkit from the creators of Apache Wicket that uses Apache Jackrabbit as its content repository. And it rules. Jackrabbit (a JCR … 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
Confused Narcissus
Ok, so a while ago I set up a Google Alert to inform me of happenings related to myself, and periodically it tells me someone on the web called “Dan … Continue reading