tag:rodesia.org,2008:mephisto/ Mephisto Drax 2008-06-25T12:55:35Z miguel tag:rodesia.org,2008-06-25:57 2008-06-25T12:51:00Z 2008-06-25T12:55:35Z <p>I admit, this is very geeky, but also kind of fascinating, a visualization of the Django commit history: </p> <p><a href="http://oebfare.com/blog/2008/jun/24/django-code_swarm/">Django Code Swarm</a></p> miguel tag:rodesia.org,2008-06-10:56 2008-06-10T11:47:00Z 2008-06-10T11:50:36Z <p>Ok, finally I bit the bullet, and joined <a href="http://twitter.com">Twitter</a>, let's see what this microblogging hype is all about.</p> <p>If you're curious, my twitter name is <a href="http://twitter.com/rodesia">rodesia</a>.</p> miguel tag:rodesia.org,2008-05-20:55 2008-05-20T15:02:00Z 2008-05-20T15:05:32Z <p>Need to add star ratings to your site?</p> <p>Here's a good article that explains how to create CSS based star ratings: <a href="http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2007/01/css-star-rating-redux/">Komodomedia blog</a></p> miguel tag:rodesia.org,2008-04-08:54 2008-04-08T09:24:00Z 2008-04-08T11:09:43Z <p>Google has just released what could be regarded as a bomb, the <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/whatisgoogleappengine.html">Google App Engine</a>, basically a development environment and scallable web hosting, which even includes Google's own database system.</p> <p>It's Python based, and even includes the <a href="http://djangoproject.com">Django</a> web framework.</p> <p>It looks like the popularity of <a href="http://python.org">Python</a> based development is going to explode... </p> miguel tag:rodesia.org,2008-02-28:50 2008-02-28T07:37:00Z 2008-02-28T07:46:14Z <p>I've just released a new update to MacIago, it fixes a nasty crash on 10.4 systems that I wasn't able to spot since I'm running 10.5, also the game should prove to be more challenging, with its improved artificial intelligence.</p> <p>Maciago 3.6.2 can be found <a href="http://rodesia.org/maciago">here</a></p> miguel tag:rodesia.org,2008-02-19:49 2008-02-19T18:45:00Z 2008-02-19T18:52:46Z <p>Just a minor and long overdue release that adds French and Japanese localizations to the game.</p> <p>The Japanese translation was done a long time ago by Christopher Li, who usually releases a Japanese version of Maciago within a day or so after every release.</p> <p>The French version was done by Yann Ricquebourg.</p> <p>Thanks a lot guys!</p> <p>You can get MacIago 3.6.1 <a href="http://rodesia.org/maciago">here</a></p> miguel tag:rodesia.org,2008-02-18:48 2008-02-18T11:22:00Z 2008-02-19T22:15:04Z <p>If you need to quickly find if a certain domain is available, this site is definitely one of the best tools for the job:</p> <p><a href="http://instantdomainsearch.com">instantdomainsearch.com</a></p> miguel tag:rodesia.org,2008-02-14:46 2008-02-14T20:47:00Z 2008-02-15T14:37:44Z <p>Well, after some big headaches trying to recover from a mix of my provider - <a href="http://www.bluehost.com/track/mmarcos/homepage">Bluehost</a> - silently updating my server setup to Apache2 and my <a href="http://www.mephistoblog.com">Mephisto</a> installation just "automagically" failing without me doing anything, I managed to get the time and patience to refresh the installation and now everything works again!</p> <p>My excuses to the people who have tried to access some pages that became unreachable during this period.</p> <p>Let's see if I have the time and patience to keep this weblog more regularly updated.</p> miguel tag:rodesia.org,2008-01-04:45 2008-01-04T15:53:00Z 2008-01-04T16:02:43Z <p>This is an interesting article about managing to do something that is really ellusive to me: waking up early!</p> <p><a href="http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/how-to-become-an-early-riser/">How to Become an Early Riser</a></p> miguel tag:rodesia.org,2007-07-26:44 2007-07-26T10:27:00Z 2007-07-26T10:37:36Z <p>One thing I have yet to do is create my own business card: shall I make it understated or overstated, monochrome or colourful, vertical or horizontal, serif or sans serif...</p> <p>Anyhow, while looking for inspiration I stumpled on this page, full of really creative ideas: <a href="http://creativebits.org/cool_business_card_designs">Cool Business Card Designs</a></p> miguel tag:rodesia.org,2007-07-18:43 2007-07-18T07:37:00Z 2007-07-18T07:44:00Z <p>This is an interesting Business Week article that gives an overview of several popular blog sites and how much money they generate.</p> <p>I hate the fact that I like the <a href="http://icanhascheezburger.com/">kittens</a> site...</p> <p><a href="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/07/0714_bloggers/index.htm">How Top Bloggers Earn Money</a></p> miguel tag:rodesia.org,2007-06-01:41 2007-06-01T12:06:00Z 2007-06-01T12:13:05Z <p>Google Image search has a little secret feature, if you search for a person and add imgtype=face to the url, it will only display faces!</p> <p>For example, search for "john" faces: <a href="http://images.google.com/images?q=john&amp;amp;imgtype=face">http://images.google.com/images?q=john&amp;imgtype=face</a></p> <p>I wonder what other hidden features exist in Google search...</p> miguel tag:rodesia.org,2007-05-14:40 2007-05-14T09:36:00Z 2007-05-14T11:07:10Z <p>Here are some useful links for those involved with the Django web framework:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.mercurytide.com/whitepapers/django-cheat-sheet/">Django Cheat Sheet</a> - One-page cheat sheet</li> <li><a href="http://www.djangosnippets.org/">Django Snippets</a></li> <li><a href="http://djangosearch.com/">Django Search</a></li> </ul> miguel tag:rodesia.org,2007-04-26:39 2007-04-26T13:20:00Z 2007-04-26T15:34:14Z <p><a href="http://www.moleskine.com">Moleskine's</a> are my favourite notebooks, I use them for notes, drawing and one is always with me while traveling.</p> <p>And it looks like they can have other uses: someone decided to turn one into a harddrive casing, result is just brilliant:</p> <p><img src="http://rodesia.org/assets/2007/4/26/466369897_62d155f5fd_m.jpg" alt="Moleskine HDD" /></p> <p>Read more about it <a href="http://www.zonageek.com/blog/archivos/2007/04/23-121420.php">here</a>.</p> miguel tag:rodesia.org,2007-04-23:36 2007-04-23T10:26:00Z 2007-04-23T10:27:10Z <p>Found this nice web implementation of the Mac OS X searchbox: <a href="http://www.brandspankingnew.net/archive/2005/08/adding_an_os_x.html">http://www.brandspankingnew.net/archive/2005/08/adding_an_os_x.html</a></p> <p>For those who haven't seen one yet, it looks like this: <img src="http://rodesia.org/assets/2007/4/23/osx_search.png" alt="OS X searchbox" /></p>