Monkinetic Weblog

Jade Rubick's A Quick Intro to OpenACS Templating is actually an excellent guide to how the .tcl, .adp, and .xql datasources interact in an OpenACS page.

Collaboraid's Package Developer's Guide, by Lars Pind.

I cannot believe I had not seen this yet:

...about what's in store for the Mac geeks attending WWDC. Rosai Group has some lovely tidbits here. quoteA new open file system design features reduced dependencies on HFS+, and a new Finder departs from its System 7 origins to bring an extensible architecture, smart folders (think Smart Playlists)endquote And... quote...Panther will eventually deliver the ability to remotely log into a 10.3 server as a graphic user interface shell, allowing users to work remotely from a thin client while leaving the heavy processing on an Xserve.endquote and... quoteSimilarly, multiple users will be able to log into the same system as graphic user interface shells at once, enabling quick, and even instantaneous, switching between multiple users on the same machine.endquote

Fascinating new development environment for building Objective-C Cocoa apps, called ObjCBrowser, based on a SmallTalk IDE. By Joe Osborn. (Thanks Mike!)

A very much improved MacCVSClient, v1.8, is released. (MacCVSClient has been around so long it has a 68k version. Wow. smile)

Ed Cone has an interview up with Rick Boucher, smart guy Congress-dude from Southwestern VA.

A couple days ago, a borked config file led me to believe that I had completely hosed my OpenACS setup. I ened up re-installing openacs and the database schema. Luckily, I backed up the templates and some scripts I had customized, so as I get sections of my install backonline I'm mostly able to do it quickly.

http://127.0.0.1:8000/doc/acs-templating/tagref/

Seeing as I'm hanging out in #openacs a lot these days, I wanted a better IRC client than Snak. Snak's ok and all, but it's Carbon and it shows. I found a new client that seems to be very much a Cocoa app, with most of the features you expect from an IRC client: Akwa.

Anywhere.

Happy birthday to you!!!!!

Well, after a month of planning behind her back, I managed to pull off a (very nearly heart-stopping) surprise party for Jodi last night. Tomorrow is her actual birthday, but I had to do it early to get the most people here and to make sure she did not make other plans. With the collusion of a few friends in our church, I handed out invitations, arranged for a large cake, balloons, streamers, 30 guests, snacks, ice cream...

Heh. This is what I need.

Portable.nsd - run OpenACS behind Apache 2? In progress.

UNIX Shell Script Tutorials & Reference. Sometimes very useful.

Jade Rubick hosts a page of links to OpenACS tips. Excellent.

Bill points to this set of articles at Dexterity.com. Designed for game developer's they seem to have really good content for other developers as well.

I've started a new section on this site called Notebook. This is where I'll collect posts on interesting topics. My first notebook page is the OpenACS Notebook, where I'm collecting weblog posts, tips, tricks, and other useful information.

On localhost: the notes tutorial, which takes you through creating a new package.