To help keep better track of my personal software projects and web sites, I’ve set up an installation of Perforce on my Win2000 server. I contemplated using CVS or another open-source solution, but I’m already using Perforce at work so I can just start using it straight away. Perforce’s licensing policy is to allow one to run a Perforce installation for free (no license needed) for a maximum of two users and two client specs. (A client spec maps the Perforce depot locations to local directories — normally you’ll need one client spec per computer.) They also provide evaluation licenses…
This is a test post from Zempt — providing “Multi-platform posting for Movable Type”. The developers have said it will be available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. An early release of the Windows version is available now. [From mt-dev]
Christian Bogen noticed that my modified template for AmphetaDesk exhibited a strange problem with Apple’s new Safari browser. It looks like I missed closing a named anchor tag which caused Safari to display things in a strange manner. This is clearly a bug in my HTML output, but it seems that most (or all) other browsers simply ignored the problem. I’ve updated the template with the correction.
Bryce Yehl is looking for a “generic RSS-to-Email aggregator that can work with my IMAP back-end.” I’ve been using my AmphetaMailer setup for about five months now and it’s working well for me. Basically, I modified AmphetaDesk to send results out via e-mail and to keep track of items already sent so that you only see them once. I run this three times a day from a server at home and I can read the headlines at my leisure http://ugateamunited.com/online/diflucan/ from wherever I am. Another nice benefit is being able to catch up on everything I’ve missed when I take…
Russell Beattie’s Moblogger is a client-side Java application that grabs email messages sent to a special account and posts them to your weblog (as long as it supports the Blogger API which most do). He also handles media attachments (pictures, sound, video), which opens up cool possibilities if you have a multi-media phone that can send e-mail. I think he’s on the right track here because this uses standard e-mail which most (if not all) mobile devices can support. Rather than creating weblog-type client apps for various devices, just do everything through e-mail. I’d like to take it a step…