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My new WordPress blog, and Smarty!

June 17, 2011

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Spurred on by the rather dull situation of my web dev portfolio being a single long page with pictures and writing on it (which simply will not do!), I spent the last week moving my blog (and my portfolio) to my own webspace with WordPress and a custom theme. This entailed a return to PHP, … [More]
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I have a craving for keywords

February 22, 2011

Posted in Ubuntu

Something interesting is going on with Gnome Shell and Unity: it is becoming very normal to search for applications. But search is more than just typing something’s name in a box: With the web, search has become synonymous with asking questions and getting answers. With really good searching, people can find what they need by … [More]
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Harvest + GSoC week 12

August 17, 2010

Posted in GSoC 2010, Ubuntu

Well, I managed my last-minute merge request for Summer of Code 2010, and with that done it is time for my last GSoC 2010 blog post! I am really glad I did this. It’s taught me a lot about myself (having never done a project in this fashion before) and I’m happy with how it … [More]
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Harvest + GSoC week 9!

July 24, 2010

Posted in GSoC 2010, Ubuntu

The past week, unfortunately, hasn’t been very productive for me. Still, I have a few things to show! I did a bunch of cleanup (again) and I toyed with animations for a while. There is now an animation (and a loading indicator) when new results are retrieved for the filters. One philosophy I have found … [More]
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Harvest stuff for GSoC: Week 7!

July 10, 2010

Posted in GSoC 2010, Ubuntu

Time for my bi-weekly Harvest update! Everything this time went into the gsoc-client-stuff branch. The first thing I learned (well, decided) is that YUI has incredibly dense, loopy and uncool documentation. I guess different people are compatible with different kinds of docs. As I read the YUI stuff I just couldn’t keep it all straight … [More]
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Harvest GSoC project: week 5!

June 28, 2010

Posted in GSoC 2010, Ubuntu

The last two weeks of my Harvest project have gone really well. It isn’t flashy and exciting and earth-shattering (yet), but I’m happy with it. First of all, my branch now has Packages and Opportunities filters. I implemented a bunch of each, and they are resolved in order. First Harvest runs the package filters, then … [More]
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