Alan Kleymeyer

I’ve also been evaluating DasBlog as a CMS system I can extend.  The new online documentation site for DasBlog is pretty nice.

Review #1

Downloading the code

Hack to create non-blog pages

I’ve been reading up on Rainbow Portal.  It is a C# .NET content management system.  I currently use Userland’s Manila software to quickly setup various websites of mine but I would like to try something I can develop new modules for.  The Yahoo Group is pretty active though after a few days of reading the posts I get the feeling the development for Rainbow is a bit disorganized.

How to install Rainbow Portal

"This is a fairly clear example of why I am a badass and why everybody wants to be my friend."

Chuckle.
More to the point:

Here is a simple way to have a phone call with somebody but use a computer synthesized voice instead of your own voice.

Matrox DualHead2Go drives two monitors off one video card

Cliff says that Web 2.0 is about the user interface.

"Microsoft, stop charging for the tools"

The accessible Fax numbers are limited. There is a web-form that allows you to type in the text you want to send but not fax a file.  There are links to software you can use to fax from your PC.

http://www.tpc.int/

In XP:
C:\Windows\System32\clipbrd.exe

An essay by Paul Graham; chock-full of good stuff:

people work a lot harder on stuff they like

people working for love often surpass those working for money

…the average quality of writing online isn’t what the print media are competing against. They’re competing against the best writing online. And, like Microsoft, they’re losing.

The New York Times front page is a list of articles written by people who work for the New York Times. Delicious is a list of articles that are interesting. And it’s only now that you can see the two side by side that you notice how little overlap there is.

The average office is a miserable place to get work done

if you work here we expect you to get a lot done. Don’t try to fool us just by being here a lot.

So these, I think, are the three big lessons open source and blogging have to teach business: (1) that people work harder on stuff they like, (2) that the standard office environment is very unproductive, and (3) that bottom-up often works better than top-down.

The Tech Boom 2.0

More and more, startups are using comoditized hardware and software

In a statement that will likely strike fear into the Suns, Oracles, and
Microsofts, Levie assesses the attitude of his fellow 20-something
entrepreneurs: "My extended network is all in the younger crowd. I
don’t know anyone who’s not developing on Linux.