Month: July 2008

iPhone Dev, OS11 repository changes and hope for OGG

So today I joined the official iPhone Developer folks. First thing you do is to download the heavy iPhone SDK which comes in a “.dmg” file as many other bundles on Mac OS X. What do you do though when you download it in Linux and want to look into it?

GNOME progress report; fixing bugs from 2001

Some interesting things happen in the GNOME world these days. First of all John Carr posted about his progress with the synchronization utility Conduit regarding Windows CE devices. It will be a good day for Linux when we can plug in a mobile, let Conduit pop up and synchronize all your contacts/calendars/notes/files with the computer…
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WordPress 2.6, here we go!

Just a quick note that we are running WordPress 2.6 now. Upgrade was painless as usual and I recommend taking the time (took me around 30 minutes to migrate everything including custom theme/plugins/code etc.)…

FCKeditor rant

There are a couple of “Word like” onsite editors floating around but I need to rant about one stealing my time. WordPress uses tinyMCE and it works well even while having it’s flaws, you get your work done, there are a couple of plugins to extend it to embed videos and all normal people need…
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Way to cool word cloud generator

Damn, always had this on my mind but never picked this up… Checkout “wordle“, a cool word cloud generator. Only missing features seem to be the lack of a Flash implementation (requires JAVA now) and the inability to directly export the clouds as images (for wallpapers etc.; currently you have to screenshot the clouds…). Off…
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