Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
at 9:41pm
After months of not touching my school’s Web site, there is finally hope as to when things will get rolling again. Currently, I am running it on Mambo 4.6.x series, which is deeply incompatible with many components and such. Too keep at least the SEF URLs running, I had to hack up one of the Mambo core files, which involved commenting out a certain function that 404 SEF doesn’t like. In other words, my Mambo install is a mess.
I’m anxiously awaiting the release of Joomla 1.5 Stable. Right now, it is up to RC2, which is very good progress. The Joomla team’s says that they will be putting out at least one more release candidate before the final version is ready, but I’ve got some time to spare. Keep it up Joomla!
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
at 2:44am
Microsoft has expanded on their Live idea by developing various applications that connect with the Web in some way or another. One of their best ones is, in my opinion, the Windows Live Writer application, which lets you post to your blog from your desktop.
Upon the first launch of the program, you will be asked to configure Writer (which is currently in Beta) for you blog. Just enter you blog’s address, and your username and password, and the wizard will get to work figuring out all the specifics of your blog (type of blogging system, template formatting, and more). The whole process took only a few minutes to complete over my relatively slow (meaning 95 Kbps tops for downloads) DSL line.
Once it’s all set up, you are presented with the post editing screen, where you type the content of your posts. You can also view the post as it would appear on your blog, or edit the raw HTML of the post. In addition, the latest versions allow you to add tags from a variety of blog search and social networking sites (Technorati, del.icio.us, and few others).
I haven’t yet experimented with pictures, maps or third party plugins, but the potential of Writer’s feature set looks positive. Just for your info, I wrote this post in Writer, illustrating it’s usefulness.
More information at Live ideas
Friday, April 8th, 2005
at 3:29pm
Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Beta is one of Microsoft’s new incarnamtions. Designed for beginners and hobbyists, it is easy to use and learn … (like other Visual Basic editions, like versions 6 and earlier) and is free to download. Microsoft doesn’t provide that much information on VB2005EE home page, but I’m sure more will be released soon, along with the 1.0 release of it. As time goes on, I’ll cover more on this topic.
Update: Microsoft states on the Express Editions FAQ page that they will cost $50 a pop. What used to be free now costs money. Typical for a Microsoft product. The newer versions have been free since the release.
Update: It will be free until November 7, 2006
