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The Joys of Seamless Upgrades
Upgrades often is a naughty word in programming and system administration. When a system admin or programmer starts an upgrade, often it is with clenched teeth and an expectation something will break, explode or spontaneously combust. So congrats to the WordPress guys for releasing another seamless, non-breaking, and easy to do upgrade. And yes this…
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Drupal Dreams
I love my WordPress powered blog. For a blogging site, WordPress is the way to go. However there are site that require me to step beyond the paradigms of a blog. Back in the day, I used to hardcode all my sites using XHTML & PHP. I’d make them elegant, minimalistic and W3C compliant. I…
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Rethinking the justCheckers Website
After listening to my backlog of FLOSS Weekly shows, I’ve been thinking about my involvement with my own project. Naturally I want it to succeed. But I also want to use it as a portfolio of my work. On one hand, I’d like to hack everything together by myself. On the other hand, I simply…
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A Quest for Easy Multiblog Setup
One of the downside of sporting the ‘Y’ chromosone, is the tendency to setup new kit without reading instructions. In my case a similar thing happened with my sites. I bought a domain and hosting. Then I installed Drupal hearing all the wonderful things I heard about Drupal. What I didn’t do was research to…
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Attaining High-Earth Orbit
Welcome to my new blog. After fighting it out with Drupal, I decided to go with WordPress instead. I’m quite impressed the ease of install, permalinks work and everything. I can’t say the same about Drupal. But then again, these are two different tools for different purposes. Enjoy the new blog.
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Moving House and Home…
Please excuse the past few days of silence. But I’ll moving this blog/journal/collection of incohesive rants yet again. The new home will be at my new brand new domain: https://dorianpula.ca/ Now at the moment of posting this message, the domain is not up. CIRA, you fail again. So for the next few days I’ll be…
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Open Source Gamer Goes to Ontario Linux Fest 2008
Last, last weekend (October 25) I attended my first conference, Ontario Linux Fest 2008. And what an awesome event it was! The event turned out be a somewhat low key event. Not a huge number of exhibitor booths, but the Eclipse, Fedora, FOSSology, FSF, OpenStreetMap and Drupal people had setup shop there. The event featured…