Category Archives: software

SVG to HTML Conversion

March 19, 2008 – 10:08 pm

I’ve downloaded Inkscape, which is rather cool - though it does seem to crash occasionally and doesn’t seem to have an auto save feature. But it is open source and I’m running the windows version!
What is cool is it is open source and I can set the drawing page to be desktop sizes - So […]

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The Effusion Group

February 25, 2008 – 10:27 am

This is a group of open standards based companies that formed a group in 2002.  The organisation is based in Christchurch, New Zealand.
The Effusion Group | Declaring Open Season
Where to look to start a similar group in Wellington?
The Wellington linux user group - next meeting March 10 2008.
The Wellington web standards group - next meeting […]

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Building an interactive website using CakePHP - Part 1

February 19, 2008 – 12:00 pm

Step 0:
For starters, I am following the example - building a blog using CakePHP in the CakePHP Manual. From there I’ll make it do what I want, but I’ll also want to add other functionality. That will likely take a while, so you’ll have to wait. Part 1 covers the development done on day […]

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Toshiba and other windows ‘factory install’ companies are satanic!

February 12, 2008 – 11:46 am

I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 series laptop; which I have used for several purposes in recent years… typically with Linux installed, with or over windows. Linux is a happy OS, though I’ve never required the use of a modem…
Windows is the pain - it always over-writes the boot sector with windows mumbo-jumbo and […]

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Trac + SVN = Free

February 12, 2008 – 11:34 am

It’s amazing what you will find online if you look harder enough, or are patient enough to wait for the results. Assembla provide Trac and SVN, allowing issue tracking integration as well as chat, scrum (via chat) under the heading: Accelerating Software Development.

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