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Stephanie’s brand new ThinkPad X100e arrived today, so I got to have some fun tonight and set up Ubuntu on it for her. Installation via memory key This was the first time I’d installed Ubuntu via memory key. Means I might not need my portable CD-ROM drive anymore… Downloaded the latest Ubuntu AMD64 Desktop ISO using BitTorrent Ran usb-creator to copy the ISO to my 2GB USB memory key (based on thes

style use lowercase characters eliminates question of proper case as well as errors related to case-sensitivity speeds typing rate and accuracy differentiates table and column names from uppercase SQL keywords separate words and prefixes with underlines, never use spaces promotes readability (e.g. book_name vs. bookname) avoid having to bracket names (e.g. [book name] or `book name`) offers greate

This was a fun one to write. What if you wanted to start over again? Just wipe the slate clean and start blogging without any baggage. Well, that’s actually hard to do unless you’re comfortable using the MySQL command line client (or phpMyAdmin). So I whipped up a little plugin that does just that, and no more. Install it, activate it, and you’re just a single click away from blogging salvation (o

The latest version is 5.0, released June 20, 2008, now with support for WordPress 2.5 galleries, and still backwards compatible with 2.3, 2.2, 2.1, and 1.5 Inspiration One of the things I’ve been thinking about more since starting at O’Reilly is how to draw attention to a back catalog of content. For a single blogger, it’s pretty easy to link back to a relevant old post because of the information

Consider this a sort of transparency report. As I mentioned in my recent Responsive Redesign post: Though I’ve long been a staunch proponent of not self-censoring old content, I may start “unpublishing” some old posts that I feel have little or no redeeming value, besides being cringe-worthy indicators of where I was at the time. This was a massive undertaking, that involved twice going through ea

Inspiration I got the following comment on a previous post: I love your blog design a lot. I especially *LOVE* your MONTHCHUNKS archives. (It’s tiny, clean and stylish!) Is it possible to post a tutorial on how to achieve that sort of layout? I really really wish to add the same MONTHCHUNKS to my blog :D Sure, no problem. Back when I used Blogger to publish my blog, I wrote some JavaScript to tran