UserFriendly has a flowchart showing how a patent application goes through. Scary! *grin*
Monthly Archives: March 2003
Cork LUG – b2 and Smarty mod
I finally released the source of this blog. There are always so many small things to do when source code is released. Actually creating the application is simple. Afterwards, you have to write documentation, create a web page or update one, create and upload a tarball, the list goes on.
If there’s bugs, so be it. I’ll get around to fixing those when I can, but right now it’s good enough!
Fonts, fonts, fonts
Did you notice? I updated my style sheet this morning and changed from an absolute font size to a variable one: font-size: 11px; became font-size: 90%;
Does the site look better in your browser? In Galeon on my machine at home there’s a marked improvement, but IE and Mozilla on a Windows box here suffers a bit. Did you notice?
b2 and Smarty source release
I’m busy working away at the first release of the source running this site. As you probably know it’s based on b2 modified to use the Smarty template system.
Right now, the install.sh script works nicely, it copies the files into the destination dir, changes permissions on some files and tells you what url to load to finish installation. The only thing missing now is a server capable of running PHP scripts!
I’m doing an apt-get upgrade and it’s sucking down 23MB of rpms from heanet, and over dialup that takes a while. Should have php support back afterwards though!
Unix: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
While searching using a popular search engine for Bash help I found a few goodies:
- Unix: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly – short article on the short-comings of Unix, from a user-friendly perspective. While I agree that “info” is horrendous, the much more useful “pinfo” is much better. Instead of using arcane key combinations to navigate you can use your cursor keys to move about. Of course, in Gnome, you can (or used to be able to) view helpfiles through their help system. I’m sure the same exists in the KDE world. There is already a searchable database of commands. You access it through the “apropos” command, although I never use it so that might indicate how useful it is.
- Shell scripts in 20 pages – A guide to writing shell scripts for C/C++/Java and unix programmers which is a good summary of shell scripting when you’re already familiar with programming in other languages. Recommended!