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Can't Leave Windows? |
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Written by Chad Auld
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Saturday, 29 March 2008 16:00 |
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that's debatable and many hard core Linux users would beg to differ. The major Linux distributions have matured to the point that they are quite usable as everyday desktop operating systems now and in many cases are actually better than their proprietary counterparts. However, some people do enjoy Windows and/or need it for their day job so perhaps there is middle ground for these folks. After all people probably want to experiment and/or test a bit anyway before making the big switch permanently. |
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Setup Boxee on Ubuntu 8.10 |
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Written by Chad Auld
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Monday, 16 February 2009 12:09 |
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As I mentioned in a previous post I recently switched over to Boxee for all my digital content needs. My initial Boxee setup was done with an Apple Mac Mini. The installation/configuration process in that case was extremely simple. The first Boxee Media Center worked out so well that I wanted a second one to replace digital cable and Tivo in the bedroom as well. I have a second Mac Mini, but it is a bit older and I quickly realized it would not work with Boxee since they do not support the G4 chip. In addition to Mac OS X boxee also supports Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10. So I decided to tear apart some old boxes I had laying around from past MythTV experiments and build a myself a new Boxee Media Center with Ubuntu 8.10. The Boxee setup process for Ubuntu 8.10 was not as simple and so I wanted to document it here for the benefit of others. |
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YUI PHP Loader |
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Written by Chad Auld
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Thursday, 05 November 2009 17:46 |
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Last week I gave on talk at YUIConf, the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI Library) conference, about the recently released YUI PHP Loader. This is a YUI component that I co-authored with Adam Moore from the YUI Team. It is a server-side utility that allows you to load specific YUI components and their dependencies into your page via PHP. YUI PHP Loader can operate as a holistic solution by loading all of your necessary YUI components, or it can be used to add one or more components to a page on which some YUI content already exists.
The video from my talk is embedded below. The code is open source and you can find it on github here - http://github.com/yui/phploader/.
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Sideline: Adobe AIR + YUI + Twitter Search |
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Written by Chad Auld
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Tuesday, 31 March 2009 10:24 |
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I've been working on a new project, Sideline, for Yahoo! over the last several months. What started off as a small side project quickly took on a life of its own. Sideline is an Adobe AIR desktop application that allows advanced searching and monitoring of the Twitter public timeline. It makes use of the Yahoo! User Interface library (YUI) and demonstrates how YUI can be an effective JavaScript framework even outside the standard browsing environment. Here is an article I did on the YUIBlog which goes into more detail on the product and on using YUI within the AIR environment in general. Rather than retell the story I recommend you have a look over there. I'll do a follow-up post about AIR and memory usage in an upcoming post.
The code is open source under the BSD license. You can find the github branch here. Enjoy and happy forking!
UPDATE: Here is a short video interview I did for the Yahoo Developer Network (YDN) about the development of Sideline.
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MiaCMS 4.8 Beta Released |
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Written by Chad Auld
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Tuesday, 25 November 2008 13:57 |
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I'm happy to announce the first beta release of MiaCMS version 4.8. This release has been months in the making and brings with it OpenID 1 & 2 support, content versioning, a brand new JavaScript architecture, a YUI Upgrade, an enhancement to the Related Articles module, a new version of the MOStlyCE editor, and plenty of bug fixes.Â
We hope the community will spend the next few weeks helping us thoroughly test the beta. If all goes well the stable release will follow shortly thereafter. Detailed release notes and some screenshots can be found here. Official downloads can be found here. There will be an upgrade path from 4.6.5 to 4.8, but for the beta there is just the full build as this version is not recommended for production usage yet.
This release goes a long way toward stabilizing/modernizing the codebase and preparing us for the next phase of this award winning CMS platform. With the official 4.8 release behind us the team can begin to focus on the next major release of the CMS. The team has been planning and setting goals for the next major release over the last several months. Some of these discussions even go back as far as 3 or 4 years. We should have some exciting information to share with the community by the time version 4.8 sees an official release. More to come on that topic soon... |
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