We released pre2 without fanfare a few weeks ago, and now here is pre3! This is only the second time I've pushed a release in the company of BBM people. Today I'm sitting with Arvind Upadhyaya from Tekriti Software, in the room next to Marc's office in Walnut Creek. Comment

We released pre2 without fanfare a few weeks ago, and now here is pre3! This is only the second time I've pushed a release in the company of BBM people. Today I'm sitting with Arvind Upadhyaya from Tekriti Software, in the room next to Marc's office in Walnut Creek. Comment

Just a quick note to say that I've just pushed the first EARLY pre-release version of PeopleAggregator 1.2 to the download/update site. The version string for this one is v1.2pre1. Expect a v1.2pre2 and perhaps a v1.2pre3 over the coming weeks before we come out with the actual v1.2 (and then update the peopleaggregator.net website). New...

Just a quick note to say that I've just pushed the first EARLY pre-release version of PeopleAggregator 1.2 to the download/update site. The version string for this one is v1.2pre1. Expect a v1.2pre2 and perhaps a v1.2pre3 over the coming weeks before we come out with the actual v1.2 (and then update the peopleaggregator.net website). New...

If I've got my timezones right, it's just turned Saturday over in San Francisco, so-- happy birthday, Marc! Comment

If I've got my timezones right, it's just turned Saturday over in San Francisco, so-- happy birthday, Marc! Comment

Here's a clever idea: run two copies of MySQL (a master and a slave) on one machine so you can shut down the slave to populate another database. I'm planning out PeopleAggregator's MySQL replication code at the moment, and am doing the initial testing by running multiple MySQL servers on my laptop. It's not as hard as it sounds: mkdir -p...

Here's a clever idea: run two copies of MySQL (a master and a slave) on one machine so you can shut down the slave to populate another database. I'm planning out PeopleAggregator's MySQL replication code at the moment, and am doing the initial testing by running multiple MySQL servers on my laptop. It's not as hard as it sounds: mkdir -p...

Lots of sites now provide javascript widgets. Typically, they ask you to paste something like this into your blog sidebar: <script src="http://www.flickr.com/fun/zeitgeist/badge.js.gne" type="text/javascript"></script> This bit of code tells browsers to go off to www.flickr.com and fetch the badge.js.gne file. There's a problem with...

Thought this would be good for a laugh. What result does an American accent clasifier return for someone with a New Zealand accent? Northeastern, apparently. I wonder what it would take to expand this quiz to classify British / Australian / New Zealand accents. What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Northeast Judging by how you talk...

Thought this would be good for a laugh. What result does an American accent clasifier return for someone with a New Zealand accent? Northeastern, apparently. I wonder what it would take to expand this quiz to classify British / Australian / New Zealand accents. What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Northeast Judging by how you talk...

Highly recommended: Hybrid - Strongarm Sessions Guest Mix on Proton Radio. I'm only halfway through it, but I can feel this is going to be one of those mixes that I'll be listening to daily until I get totally sick of it. Track 4 - Trent Cantrelle & Freddy B - You Don't Have To Cry (Quivver Remix) - is excellent... I'm out of touch with the...

Highly recommended: Hybrid - Strongarm Sessions Guest Mix on Proton Radio. I'm only halfway through it, but I can feel this is going to be one of those mixes that I'll be listening to daily until I get totally sick of it. Track 4 - Trent Cantrelle & Freddy B - You Don't Have To Cry (Quivver Remix) - is excellent... I'm out of touch with the...

My main web server has been pretty slow for ages. I was pretty sure that either the Topic Exchange or the Python Community Server was to blame, but didn't know which, or why. After a whole heap of twiddling - shutting down various bits and pieces until things sped up, then putting them back in one by one - it seems that BOTH sites were running...

My main web server has been pretty slow for ages. I was pretty sure that either the Topic Exchange or the Python Community Server was to blame, but didn't know which, or why. After a whole heap of twiddling - shutting down various bits and pieces until things sped up, then putting them back in one by one - it seems that BOTH sites were running...