The principle characteristic of a good installation process is that it "just works" with no more than a few basic on-screen instructions. No pre-preparation. No manuals. No helpline. And no more than one cup of coffee. I'm pleased to report that such a characteristic is possessed by Ubuntu 6.06 Desktop edition. Things didn't go quite so well when I tried to install the Server edition onto my Intel Mac mini.
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I talked about doing it, and even tried out the some of the theory. Eleven months later I did it. This is a reconstruction of the process I went through in migrating from iBlog to WordPress. In the best tradition of reconstructions it is put togther partly from hand-written plus typed notes, old screen captures, lots of coffee, and reliance on memory. Apologies if it seems a bit dis-jointed. I should have gotten to it sooner, but you know how it is...
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Ubuntu upgrade: The Server Edition of the June 1 Ubuntu release will include a mechanism to set up a standardized, certified, and supported LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server with a single command.
I recently spent an extortionate amount of time adding a site preferences panel to my site design. It's a solution composed of many parts, put together piece-by-piece with the knowledge and assistance of several Netizens. It is by no means perfect and certainly not indispensable—but it sure put my tinkering skills to the test. It surprises me how obscure information about adding site preferences is; Google searches on the subject have a high signal-to-noise ratio, and a couple of e-mail enquires to webmasters went unanswered. In keeping with my blog's tagline, here is the "stuff worth sharing". But mostly, as usual, I document the process mainly so I can remember how it was put together!
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Beware: As at March 16 2006 this site is potentially unstable. Lots of things are broke. If you are using Internet Explorer 6 or older please consider upgrading to a browser with better standards support, such as Firefox, Safari, or Opera.
bioneural.net has migrated from iBlog to WordPress.
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PHP iCalendar: a PHP-based iCal file parser to display iCals in a Web browser. It's based on v2.0 of the IETF spec. It displays iCal files in a nice logical, clean manner with day, week, month, and year navigation.
