Monthly Archive for July, 2008

How Hardware Makers can help the Free Software movement

Interesting Read. The road to a truly open laptop is fast becoming a reality.

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US States - Drop Down menu in Drupal

When defining Content Types in Drupal with the Content Construction Kit you get a chance to make select dropdowns with it. It takes its key/value pairs in this format: Key|Value. The attached list will give you US States in this format. Hopefully this will save others a bit of time in preparing such a list for CCK.

FlareSmith v0.9 and Plugin Competition Update

I updated FlareSmith, my WordPress plugin that helps you integrate FeedFlare and FeedBurner stats into your WordPress blog without having to edit your theme files, yesterday. Version 0.9 added an option to include the FeedBurner javascript snippet below every post on the site, instead of just on the Single page (full blog post). This way, when your posts are listed on the homepage or in other lists, the FeedFlare will show. You’ll want to keep this option turned off if you aren’t using FeedFlare on your site, and just want FeedBurner Stats, as FB Stats are only set to record hits to the individual posts, and not the archive or homepage of your blog. I also cleaned up the documentation some, and am preparing the plugin for i18n. I already have a couple of volunteers for Spanish and Turkish, but if you’re interested in helping to translate the FlareSmith plugin - let me know.

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DNS Exploit, fully explained

Ars Technica has posted a great overview of the DNS Exploit I’ve been talking about for the last week or so. Use doxpara to test your DNS provider.

You don’t have to sell out to have financial security

David Heinemeier Hansson, inventor of Ruby on Rails (something you might of heard of) in response to Paul Graham:

Getting your company to the point where you can pay yourself a decent salary is a great milestone. You created something sustainable that doesn’t rely on spending other people’s money. You deserve to pop a bottle and celebrate!

You certainly shouldn’t curb your ambitions because of that, though. The real economic pay-off for taking the risk of starting a business is what comes after this.

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