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05 september

Getting what I want

Since -98 I’ve been using Linux. It started at school where all of our programming was done in Red Hat 5.1 and KDE. Off and on I have returned to Microsoft Windows, I have used alot of different distributions such as Gentoo, Debian, Mandrake, Suse and Slackware to name a few. I in a weak [...]

01 september

Linux steps up with OpenGL powered GUI’s

In the recent race to serve users with all mannered GUI wonder Linux has put both Apple and Microsoft in a choke hold. Utilizing the ”XGL” xserver on top of OpenGL and the ”Compiz” composite manager allows the use of hardware accelerated rendering of the desktop and windows. This is not a new thing, if [...]

27 augusti

U.S. photos are up!

I have just uploaded some of the photos we took on the trip to the U.S. This is just a first set, there are alot of images to sort through and post-manipulate. This first set is from Gene’s and Donna’s house, where we stayed for the most part, and some from the boating trip we [...]

21 augusti

Back again!

After two so pleasant weeks it should be outlawed, we touched down on swedish soil again at approx. 6pm Sunday. Not that I’m actually keeping score but it may very well have been the best trip I’ve ever been on. The hospitality we were shown went above and beyond any and all expectations, and had [...]

02 augusti

Off to the US

On friday morning at 06:05 our plane takes off from Copenhagen to Minneapolis. There we will spend two weeks visiting relatives and just plain having a good time. We don’t have that much planned but we think we’re going to ”Mall of America”, the ”Valley fair” amusement park and Mount Rushmore. Besides that we’ll see. [...]

26 mars

Monster Magnet Dissapointment

Late October last year my girlfriend and I bought tickets to a Monster Magnet appearance in Malmoe at Kulturbolaget. The show was supposed to be last friday(24/3). Guess what?! It was cancelled. We drove 13 metric miles there stressed out of our gords, ate at Burger King, found a parkingspace rushed to the concert only [...]

08 januari

Downtime, WordPress 2 and Ajax

I had a little downtime a couple of days here. The culprit was a package upgrade on the host that snuck by the administrator, the upgrade overwrote some of the configuration files for the database server. So when the server had to bee rebooted, due to a system hang, the database server didn’t go back [...]

26 november

Choosing a suitable publishing format.

I have been involved with ‘the web’ for some time now, about five years or so. And I dare to call myself at least semi skilled in both design and development. I have used and tested an array of different content management systems and tools that claim to help ease publishing your content. The common [...]

03 oktober

Rent-a-house

The last few weeks has been terribly hectic, mostly due to the fact that we’ve moved out of the apartment and into a house. We are now proud renters of roughly 250 square meters of prime walls and ceiling accompanied by the obligatory grass lawn. The apartment weighed in at 62 square meters so the [...]

11 augusti

Juliette and the touring cars.

‘Been focusing alot on R-n’-R the last week or so. Last Sunday me and a friend of mine went and saw STCC wich was for the most part really sweet. I enjoy motorsports probably a tad more then the next guy but the mind staggering amount of rainfall that day was enough to put a [...]

14 juli

WordPress theme system close-up

It has been some time since my last post, I have been a little pressed on time and really havn’t had anything worth writing about. I’m on holiday now and have spent most of my time on three projects; the Intranet I have made for my employer, a handbook in swedish on how to use [...]

31 maj

Cross-browser compliance

I am not a fan of Microsofts Internet Explorer browser, I find it twitchy, buggy, insecure and feature-less. Thusly I rearely use it, but many others unfortunately do and so one has to cope with the situations that arise when such a user enters your site. This is not news, this applies to all sites [...]

22 maj

Photoshop for Photographers

I got ”The Adobe Photoshop CS book for Digital Photographers” (ISBN 91-636-0823-5) for my birthday and I must say that it really is the cats pyjamas. It is different from every other book on Photoshop(or other digital image handling software) I’ve read/skimmed through. It differs in that it doesn’t explain all the nifty function and [...]

16 maj

Writing good email.

I, as many others, use email extensively for communication. I rarely use the phone anymore and have substituted it with things as email and irc. I also enjoy being a member of several mailing lists that provide me with the latest news, support and general tips in areas that I find interesting. The preferred way [...]

15 maj

GDCv1 release!

Finally finished the re-design that has been in the making since I switched to WordPress. I got a surprise workload right after I uploaded the new CMS and didn’t get to finish this until now. I’ve stripped out most of the tags and made a design that is more of a blog type. I wanted [...]

14 maj

PHP frenzy

This last month I’ve been up to the neck writing various CMS related things. First and foremost I’ve been focusing on my companys intranet basically rewriting it from the ground up. The last time I wrote it I had to put it together in a relatively short time frame, so it didn’t turn out that [...]

01 maj

Drupal 4.6.0 is out.

On April the 15th Drupal released it’s new version, 4.6.0. After six months of development the 4.6.0 now sports such features as: PHP5 support Improved search Improved usability in some areas Added ‘Contact’ module with e-mail support Other stuff… (Changelog) If you havn’t already, check it out at www.drupal.org

18 april

Command line help

I have to admit, and that isn’t easy, that sometimes even Linux behave strangely and stop working. I have botched my X-server configuration more than once in my days and that left me with nothing more than a commandline prompt to get it back up. Now I know some of you are saying ”Hey, whaddaya [...]

17 april

New CSS uploaded.

So I finally got around to put the new theme up. I’ve deliberately toned down the ‘bling’ for some simple reasons. One is that I’m not good enough at making spiffy graphics, so no attempts have been made. Another one is that I want a flexible and easy-to-navigate layout and I thought that it might [...]

29 mars

PHP debugging tips.

Digital Web Magazine has an article on how to debug you PHP code when you hit a bump in the road. It doesn’t go into specific tools but rather shows a set of simple techniques you can pull out when your’e stumped. The methods are not complicated and are probably well know to you if [...]