Tuesday, July 04, 2006
The only constant is change
Mac Madness
There are some applications you get accustom to and can't let go. Linux, IMHO, is the swiss army knife of the computer world and I've become very very partial to several of the apps:
Dia
Evolution
OpenOffice
GIMP
Planner
In the move to the Mac, I've had to leave a few of them behind. Several have Mac ports - OpenOffice and GIMP. One in particular Inkscape slipped through my fingers until this week. There is a OS X port, JOY!
Check it out.
Moodle
The folks at Moodle released the 1.6 version of their Course Management System. Normally, I'm always gun shy when it comes to upgrades such as this. Fortunately, things in very rare instances aren't as bad as they seem. Such is the case, with the Moodle upgrades. Simply back up the database, rename the old installation folder, untar the new install, copy the config file (config.php) to the new installation folder. Voila, everything works. 4 clicks to confirm you would like to proceed with the update via a web browser and you're up and running.
Good stuff.
Joomla Updates
Joomla 1.0.10 patch was released on June 26th. Still working on patching the install base. One point to ponder is moving a vanilla index2.php file to the administrator folder. Seems to clear up a behind the scenes issue with the admin section. Good luck.
Programming
Still working on PHP stuff .. life goes on..
That's all for now.. Paper to write..
There are some applications you get accustom to and can't let go. Linux, IMHO, is the swiss army knife of the computer world and I've become very very partial to several of the apps:
Dia
Evolution
OpenOffice
GIMP
Planner
In the move to the Mac, I've had to leave a few of them behind. Several have Mac ports - OpenOffice and GIMP. One in particular Inkscape slipped through my fingers until this week. There is a OS X port, JOY!
Check it out.
Moodle
The folks at Moodle released the 1.6 version of their Course Management System. Normally, I'm always gun shy when it comes to upgrades such as this. Fortunately, things in very rare instances aren't as bad as they seem. Such is the case, with the Moodle upgrades. Simply back up the database, rename the old installation folder, untar the new install, copy the config file (config.php) to the new installation folder. Voila, everything works. 4 clicks to confirm you would like to proceed with the update via a web browser and you're up and running.
Good stuff.
Joomla Updates
Joomla 1.0.10 patch was released on June 26th. Still working on patching the install base. One point to ponder is moving a vanilla index2.php file to the administrator folder. Seems to clear up a behind the scenes issue with the admin section. Good luck.
Programming
Still working on PHP stuff .. life goes on..
That's all for now.. Paper to write..
# posted by Tom McClain @ 2:53 PM 
