Jarrod Trainque

July 17, 2005

Wordpress Upgrade from 1.2 to 1.5

Now that I have some free time, I’ve finally gotten around to upgrading Wordpress from version 1.2 to 1.5. I’ll also (hopefully) be able to get a grip on all the poker-related comment spam I’ve been receiving lately since posting this. The good news is that the upgrade process seemed to go relatively smoothly, thanks to […]

my tickler file

Adding to Erik’s post, here’s a photo of my tickler file I use at work:

July 16, 2005

Practically famous

I was mentioned on Boston.com (at the bottom)

July 12, 2005

mashup treats

Currently making the rounds: Radiohead & Marvin Gaye Beck vs. Michael Jackson vs. AC-DC Gwen Stefani vs. Real Life Madonna vs. Tiga vs. Britney Gwen Stefani vs. Queen Four Tops vs Weird Al Yankovic George W vs. John Lennon vs. Lou Reed

knowledge management: business fad?

article: the nonsense of ‘knowledge management’ “The inescapable conclusion of this analysis of the ‘knowledge management’ idea is that it is, in large part, a management fad, promulgated mainly by certain consultancy companies, and the probability is that it will fade away like previous fads.” Discuss.

July 11, 2005

Peeling back the webpage to reveal ads

If you look carefully on the top right of this page you’ll notice that it looks like a piece of the page is dangling. Mouse over it and you’ll “peel back” the web page to reveal a horribly obstrusive ad: (click to enlarge)

Scrolling and Scrollbars

Jacob Nielson on Scrolling and Scrollbars: Offer a scrollbar if a page has scrolling content. Don’t rely on auto-scrolling, which people might not notice. Hide scrollbars if all content is visible. If people see a scrollbar, they assume there’s additional > content and will be frustrated if they […]

July 10, 2005

Planarity

Here’s a simple fun flash-based game: Planarity. The objective: rearrange nodes so that no lines overline. Simple zen fun.

July 8, 2005

Del.icio.us supports filetype-specific searches

Creator Joshua recently announced some cool new http://del.icio.us features that let you search for filetypes. Here’s the rundown: Bookmarked items in del.icio.us that end in one of a number of filetypes will now automatically get some system tags added. You can use these just like normal tags. RSS feeds that have one of those […]

KnowledgeTree open source document management

Discovered via http:///del.icio.us/popular: KnowledgeTree OpenSource Document Management. KnowledgeTreeâ„¢ is one of the most rapidly-adopted open source document management systems, with downloads currently running at several thousands per month (7800 in November 2004). It was originally developed for the South African Medical Research Council; so it has all the code quality, functionality and architectural rigour […]



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