Tweet For a while now I’ve been toying with using our Socialtext server for more than just the wiki. The problem there is that Socialtext uses apache-perl with what (for me) appears to be a somewhat interesting set of mod_rewrite rules. From what I can tell, it takes whatever you bung in the URL and passes the query string through [...]

Tweet Finally finished transcribing and deciphering my sometimes cryptic install notes for Socialtext-Open. Install was onto a fresh Ubuntu 7.04 install.  You can read them on the Socialtext-Open wiki.

Tweet I’ve spent a fair amount of time playing with SQLite in the past, and found that it is suprisingly nippy for a database that runs from a single file on your filesystem. I’ve used it succesfully both in it’s traditional form as an actual database, and in a somewhat non-traditional fashion as an in-memory database to make sure that [...]

Tweet A while ago I decided that I didn’t want to keep maintaining my mess of a website and figured I’d convert it over to be a mashup of feeds from other hosted services. I’m a firm believer that something must do one thing, and do it well, which is why I don’t (usually) use my phone to take photo’s [...]

Tweet Started reading about Symfony a few weeks ago, and finally got a bit of time to actually give it a try. As they suggest, if you just want to muck about with it and not do any serious development yet, grab the sandbox install as it will just work out the box. What follows are some problems I ran [...]

Tweet Since my laptop got nicked last year, I started using a loaned Powerbook to try and get some work done. I’d always wanted to make the move from PC to Mac, but was always held back by the ease of use of a “known” operating environment and a large drive full of existing Windows format files. Since someone in [...]