Wiki Social Network

Wikia just released an open source social networking extension to MediaWiki, allowing anyone with a MediaWiki install to let their users create profiles, upload avatars, message each other, and do other […]

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Portland Open Coffee Club on Feb 27th 2008

FYI the next Portland Open Coffee Club meeting is tomorrow, Wed, Feb 27th, 10am, downtown Stumptown on 3rd ave. Last Wednesday of every month. Hope some folks can swing by.   […]

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Ning == SPAM

Well, I’ve had it. I must get at least a dozen “please join my crappy network” invite messages each week from Ning networks. I haven’t yet found a way to […]

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Some .NET blogging engines

SubText – http://www.subtextproject.com/ BlogEngine – http://www.asp.net/downloads/starter-kits/blog-engine/ dasBlog – http://www.dasblog.info/ FYI we use dasBlog here, but SubText & BlogEngine look interesting …

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Mac Subversion Clients

Unfuddle’s forums has a discussion on alternate Subversion clients for Mac users. SCPlugin is a free Subversion plugin that integrates with the Finder, and works similar to TortoiseSVN (a Windows SVN […]

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Default ownership and permissions for new Linux files

TechTarget has an article on how to set access control lists to define default file permissions. This came in handy for us, as we have several developers who work on […]

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Recursive FTP for Linux

If you need to recursively FTP files (e.g. you’re pulling down data, or doing offsite backups), take a look at lftp. It’s normally available on Linux boxes. One nice thing […]

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