Weekly review: Week ending July 25, 2010

July 29, 2010

Plans from last week: Work Renew Microsoft subscription (CC) Educational meeting with Redpitt (MM) Improve SEO (Amino) Declare taxes (CC) Improve sign-up and partner feature (MM) Also: Brought notebook to repair shop (MM) Relationships Meet B in Copenhagen Group meetup in Finland Life Ride bicycle approx. 65 miles Write a Wikipedia article Also: Wrote a [...]

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Weekly review: Week ending July 18, 2010

July 19, 2010

Plans from last week: Work Learn about Redpitt CMS (MM) Small changes to forums (Amino) Improve sign-up and partner feature (MM) Also: Meeting about sign-up improvements (MM) Troubleshot dead notebook (MM) Discontinued shared office space lease (CC) Implemented share buttons on some blogs (CC) Relationships Change late summer holiday ticket Also: Showed B & M [...]

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Weekly review: Week ending July 11, 2010

July 13, 2010

Plans from last week: Work Finished “Ignore user” function (Amino) Also: Helped with a few small tasks (Amino) Cleaned my inboxes of old mails (Amino, CC) Helped Nico with a little CSS (CC) Relationships Show mom & sister around Malmö, Lund and Ystad Life Also: Planted Tagetes on balcony Legend Planned, completed Planned, not completed, [...]

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XBMC on Asrock Ion 330HT

June 27, 2010

The Asrock ION 330 HT makes a nice little HTPC, but installing XBMC on it can be daunting for Linux newbies. Here’s how I managed to get most everything working.

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Migrating a bunch of WordPress blogs to a single WordPress 3.0 multi-site installation

June 13, 2010

General setup: Set up WordPress as usual Follow http://wptheming.com/2010/03/wordpress-3-0-enable-network/ to enable multi-site; use sub-directory config Change wp-config.php and .htaccess as described in the admin Follow http://ottopress.com/2010/wordpress-3-0-multisite-domain-mapping-tutorial/ to enable domain mapping For each site: Log in to the control panel Upgrade site to 3.0 by copying files over and reloading the control panel Add the site on [...]

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Lease .NET development tools

June 2, 2010

The Microsoft Action Pack Subscription (MAPS) has been a cheap way for very small businesses and self-employed technicians as well as students to get their hands on many of Microsoft’s software offerings for a small yearly fee. Now the software giant introduced a similar discount for self-employed developers, featuring some of the same software that [...]

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