Posted in Chat on Apr 25th, 2006 No Comments »
Recently I started using Fire for chatting with people on my Mac. Up until this point I’ve been using iChat. However, I haven’t figured out how to set up iChat to work with Yahoo Messenger. Supposedly you can do this with Jabber but I haven’t been able to do it yet. Plus, iChat does natively [...]
Posted in Wikis on Apr 20th, 2006 6 Comments »
So I’ve been working on and off for a week and a half trying to figure out how to run a large scale wiki farm for the UH Libraries where all the Wiki’s would have the same basic template. The problems are similar to what I encountered when I worked on the UH Libraries weblogs [...]
Posted in Tech Configuration Tidbits on Apr 20th, 2006 No Comments »
Imagine you have a directory on your web server you want to protect so that people have to login to see the item in it. You don’t want to give them a different password to remember but use an existing username/password in an LDAP directory. You want to make sure that when they login that [...]
Posted in Mac, Nifty Tools on Apr 20th, 2006 1 Comment »
When I bought my Powerbook a little over a year ago, I thought that an 80 GB hard drive would be plenty of space for my stuff. Pre iPod and digital camera that might have been true, but post media-creation acquisitions this was far from the case. However, I didn’t even realize it and last [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 20th, 2006 1 Comment »
This morning is not starting out particularly well. I logged into Gmail to discover that LISHost’s MySQL server has been having issues and that due to a MySQL table corruption issue three of my most recent posts have been eaten. Frustration doesn’t even begin to describe what I’m feeling. One of the posts was a [...]
Posted in Mac, Nifty Tools on Apr 20th, 2006 2 Comments »
I guess that I’ve been upgrade to Mac OS 10.4 for more than a month now. However, I really haven’t had a lot of time to play around with it. Today, I discovered something really neat. I can add new tools to my Mac Dashboard! How I couldn’t have noticed this before, perplexes me but [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 14th, 2006 No Comments »
I keep hearing more and more about microformats of late and I’m been doing a little research and reading to try to understand a bit more about them. I first encountered them a while back when I was looking for web-based presentations solutions. At that point I discovered XOXO which stands for stands for eXtensible [...]
Posted in CSS on Apr 6th, 2006 2 Comments »
I spent part of today writing print stylesheets for our Movable Type weblogs and my own personal blog. One thing I think is crucial with print stylesheets is that less is more. This means a couple of things when you are trying to optimize the page for print. First, that stylesheet you have been using [...]
Posted in RSS on Apr 5th, 2006 3 Comments »
At Computers in Libraries someone asked me about scripts that would allow you to incorporate RSS feeds into web pages. I have done this in the past using server-side scripting. However, this isn’t an option for everyone. Many people don’t have the skills to do this. I knew that it was also possible to do [...]
