Building simplicidade.org: notes, projects, and occasional rants

Notes

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After battling with lighttpd and friends for a couple of hours, I finally have a very cool setup for this site. I use the Moveable Type software to publish this articles. I modified the templates to publish each zone of the site in a separate HTML file. Then I use PHP to include them all in the final result. This allows me to generate the right hand-side column just once, as a index template, and include it on all the other articles.

Starting a new day with a smile

Rui hates mondays. I know what he means, but given that monday is one of my days off, I don't hate them myself. I'm more a Tuesday-hater myself. So, to make him and all those monday-o-fobics out there smile at least once today, listen to the blind man.

Last thursday we had another technical meeting of the Lisbon.pm group. It was a great success, with 29 people attending. There where three presentations: one by João Gomes about Catalyst, another by me about POE with an example of process control, and the last one by Miguel Duarte about when not to use Perl, which was, as you can expect, a hot topic. If you are interested in Perl and live or work around Lisboa, please join our mailing list (instructions can be found at the Lisbon.

Sexy hardware

Is it just me or did anybody else smiled slightly at the cover of April 2006 issue of Linux Journal? I do agree with the picture though, a PowerBook 12" is a sexy piece of hardware, even running Linux. Technorati Tags: apple, linux

iDeck

I bought an iPod Video to replace my aging 2G iPod (well, officially I stole the 2G from my wife after my 1G broke the firewire port...) and to be able to carry my photos of my kid with me: grandmothers love that part. Anyway, when I arrive at home in the evening, I like to listen to music and usually what I did was start iTunes and use the built-in TiBook speakers.

First steps

There is a lot of people working to get a decent free Windows emulator for Mac OS X Intel. Some just want VMWare to launch their player technology, others seek the Q and QEMU solutions. All of this will eventually work, I'm sure. In the meantime, you can follow the progress of a VMWare-based solution. Aparently someone took the time to make VMWare for linux run under Knoppix using a iMac Intel.

Wildfire 2.5.0

Jive Software announced Wildfire 2.5.0 just now. They are now 100% XMPP compliant. Congrats! They are the second server with source available to make that claim, after ejabberd last December. I was still running an old Jive Messenger 2.3.1 so I decided it was time to upgrade. Installing a Wildfire is so easy that I never upgrade. I just export the users from the old server, do a fresh install of the new server, tweak two or three settings, and import the users.

Campfire is now live

I was expecting this service to open soon, and my wish was granted. I was able to grab the address http://geeks.campfirenow.com/ and I'll test it with a couple of friends. As usual you can expect the clean look and interface that 37Signals have accustom us to. Only the minimum features are there, but for now, it seems very responsive. Given the recent example of Zooomr regarding authentication (only the good parts, of course), I would like to see 37Signals start some kind of distributed authentication system, even its only on their sites.

Interviewed

Hugo sent me a couple of questions last week that I finally found the time to respond. Hugo is a very patient person, I'll tell you that.