For the past few weeks, I log into my blog and am disgusted at the theme I was using. It was pretty awful, but I couldn’t find anything I liked better. My requirements for a theme are simple: Widget ready At least 1 sidebar, maybe 2 Simple Being a web developer, I hoped for a little more though. I wanted an Ajax theme. It took a while, but I finally found K2, the second version of the default Kubrick theme. »
A while back, I posted a review of some existing Active Record implementations. One of those happened to be the Zend frameworks DB portion. I believe that was about the time of version 0.7, and I recently looked on their website and discovered 1.0 had been released. I initially had low expectations, expecting 1.0 to just clean up 0.7 code, with minimal feature additions. After I downloaded it, I found out how wrong I was. »
TeamSnap is a new web 2.0 application for managing/organizing sport teams. Since I am on a softball team here at Webmail.us, I figured I should give it a try. As it turns out, it’s pretty nice. It has all the features I want and very little that I don’t. Since it seems to be a Rails based application, it has some similarities with applications like Group Hub. Very clean, intuitive, and simple. »
At first, I was hesitant to install IE on Ubuntu. Basically, I didn’t think I could trust it. But after spending hours and hours of development time waiting on my windows virtual machine to do anything in IE, I knew I had to try it. IEs4Linux work great. I only use IE6, and it is great. At first glance, it seems to work exactly like IE on my virtual machine, except it runs as fast as a normal desktop application. »
After a Googling for a few hours, I finally got Sound Juicer, an audio extraction application for linux, setup correctly. Although I am very happy with Ubuntu, problems like this are why I think the rest of the world still isn’t ready for linux. There are still just too many simple problems that require experts knowledge (I am not an expert, Google is my expert). Problem #1: Lame Ubuntu doesn’t include any Lame or MP3 plugins. »
Since MythTV is one of my favorite hobby projects, I figured I should start blogging about it. I started building my Myth box over the summer of 2006 with MythTV 0.19 and Ubuntu Dapper Drake. Since Dapper had no built in package support for MythTV, everything had to be compiled, including MythTV, IVTV, and LIRC. Edgy Eft has a MythTV package and it makes installing a lot easier. The newest release of MythTV, 0.20, has many new features over 0.19, but only one stands out to me. »
I have had an iPod for a little over a year, and never updated the software. Since I run Ubuntu on all my computers, without Wine, I rarely log onto my Windows partition. So, a couple days ago, I decided to update my iPod software from 1.0 to 1.2.1. All did not go as planned. When I loaded up Amarok after updating my iPod, I received this message: Media Device: failed to create lockfile on iPod mounted at /media/ipod: Read-only file system After a lot of Googling, I found nothing related to my error. »
A few months ago, one of my friends told me to check out Pandora Internet Radio. Since then, I have rarely listened to any other internet radio services. A few years ago I tried out Yahoo’s music service and was fairly impressed but it wasn’t very good at recommending music I like. Pandora, on the other hand, is great at it. Pandora is based on the Music Genome Project, and I have no idea what that is. »