SPIP – a content management system

I’ve known about SPIP for some time; but never evaluated it because it was only available in the original French version. By chance, I noticed that it’s mushroomed into many language versions now, including English, thankfully.
Plus, they operate a Subversion repository, so that makes evaluation on my local machine a cinch. Goody!

Filed under: Blog Tools, WordPress

JSCalc – Firefox calculator bookmarklet

Gosh, this is a cool little popup calculator by The Man in Blue: JSCalc.
Just remember to enable Javascript for themaninblue.com (if like me you have the NoScript extension) to allow it to do its work.

Filed under: FireFox, Web Apps

Noodles sticking to server walls … WP.com performance

Noodles? Sticking to server walls?
So this is where my blog is hosted … in a place where noodles are thrown against poor old servers!

Right now we’re in noodle mode, throwing things against the server walls and seeing what sticks.
Matt: WP.com Performance

Filed under: QOTD

Serendipity Review by Perun

Perun checks out the Serendipity weblog software (you need to be able to read German).

Serendipity is one of the few blog apps I keep updated via subversion on my local machine. It’s an interesting piece of software – but also quite annoying at times. I haven’t yet come across a Smarty-powered weblog script where the templating wasn’t cumbersome for the end user.

Filed under: Blog Tools

Tolerance of Stupid Questions

… and smart people can’t stand stupid questions, whereas newbies can’t do without them.
Vishnu Vyas: Why Lisp?

Filed under: QOTD

My Essential Tools List

After the last Windows re-install on the laptop, I decided to stay mean and lean and only install software I consider absolutely essential. I started keeping a list, as I hauled my favourite apps onto the hard drive; and thought I might as well share it here.
Since this is not something ephemeral (like your average blog entry), I have dedicated a whole page to it.
You’ll find it under tools.

I’ll keep adding to it and editing it, but there’s enough there I reckon for interest/discussion for now.

Filed under: Software

Phenomenal Speed

I don’t know what switches they pulled here at wordpress.com … but the lags of the past few weeks are gone.
I’ve got blistering speed now, and it feels awesome.

Filed under: Wordpress.com