I really need to catch up on some of things that I’ve been busy with. I’ve been working with a tool called ActiveGrid and I’ve been playing with Ruby and RubyOnRails. More on those subjects later on, so check back soon.

This guy created his own local .Mac emulation – all the way from iCal publishing to tricking it into using the Backup program. He gives explict instructions on how to set this up. He gives example with a FreeBSD server, but he says it can be implemented easily on other platforms. Seems interesting I’ll try on my Fedora box sometime soon.

This site has taken some of the best open source software for Mac OS X, and made a convienient list. There’s some great stuff here. The list isn’t very long, but it has potential.

The long-awaited 2.01 release of WordPress fixes uploading, rpc, caching, and permalink bugs, as well as improving support for old version of php and MySQL in strict mode.

Want to include your email address on a web page, but you don’t want to be detected by spam bots? Have a look at this comprehensive list of methods on how to hide email addresses in source code from spam bots. Includes; CSS, Javascript, Forms, Images, Obfuscation, Authentication, Flash, Unicode, Encryption and other methods. Each technique is presented and explained with their advantages and downfalls.

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iTheater came through with their promise and released iTheater RC1. I’ve been waiting for this for a while and I am not disappointed. It seems to be stable (no craches yet) so far, but it’s not fuly functional or ready for an open source worthy 1.0 version label. For those of you who don’t know what I mean with “open source worthy 1.0 version label”, I would suggest you read Eric S. Raymond’s book The Cathedral & the Bazaar. I will be testing RC1 later this week and see if there is anything special to report.

I read the following tip on TUAW about quiting applications:

One of the key combinations that I use most on my Mac is Command Tab, which brings up the Application Switcher, as seen above (in most versions of OS X that is). This allows me to switch from one application to another just by hitting the Tab key to cycle through the running applications.You’re saying, ‘We know this already, Scott, what a lame tip!’ Well, did you know that you can quit an application without leaving the Application Switcher? It is true. Simply hit Command Tab to bring up the Application Switcher and Tab to the application you want to quit. Once it is highlighted, without lifting your finger off of the Command button, hit the Q. Poof! The application quits (assuming that there are no unsaved documents currently in the application).

After reading this I thought: “Are there more possiblities with the switcher?”. So I started trying some more wellknown key combinations and the best one I found is H. What you do is the same what Scott wrote a TUAW except when pressing Q just press H an boom the application is hidden.

Today another product joined the e-less naming zone, I’ve been trying to explain this new naming convention for (mostly) web 2.0 stuff and have so far been unsuccesful. The best thing I could come up with is that it’s web 2.0 slang. Anybody else got a suggestion?

Long time since I posted anything. I’ve been busy trying to setup my own server with WordPress running on it. I’m almost finished now so I’m gonna start looking for a way to get it in the open. If there are any suggestions let me know. It’s great to see an open source product that’s really easy to setup and to configure. I’m still tweaking things and I have to do some configuration to get the security to an acceptable level.