Played a little with the gource log visualizer today. It is typically used to visualize committed revisions in a revision control system, although any system that logs events of some kind could be made to work with it I suppose. I happen to have a repository of xaraya going back to 2002 in git, so I thought I'd give …

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After installing Snow Leopard I was left with a page of programs and plugins that needed attention because of the upgrade. Most of these were little nuisances and just needed a little reconfiguration. There were a couple of things where Apple decided to rename an app or hide it otherwise from view (Kerberos Ticket …

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During their lives, people evolve, that's a given. For me, they start out as little ugly creatures, which most of us seem to like for some reason, and their brains don't seem to do very much either yet. (but who knows, really?) So, low score in looks and brains. The first 25 years seem to deal mostly with getting the …

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Let's try to create a chain of documents like the one John did in Xaraya 2.0 Brainstorming. After a while the common denominators should float to the surface by looking at the whole chain. I tend to view at an application development process like this: make it work make it right make it nice make if fast For Xaraya, …

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Making xaraya react to the mt_keywords MT member was easy with the existing keywords module. The harder part (read: more time consuming) was to make the visual presentation of them in the site somewhat acceptable. If you view this article by itself (what we call the display view in Xaraya), you'll notice an extra part …

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