Month: August 2006

Fantasy news today

UNO is a theme that brings the sunken unified toolbar/titlebar look&feel to every single window on your system (cocoa or carbon, metal or aqua and already unified windows as well).
On an higher level, UNO’s main goal is to enhance aqua interface cons

Orangeview Cold Fuzion RPG is a science fiction campaign setting for role playing games. It is designed for use by Game Masters to referee a fast-paced Spy-fi campaign for three Players. It was written and copyright by Christer Kaitila under the GPL licen

MythTV is a homebrew PVR project that I’ve been working on in my spare time. It’s been under heavy development for almost four years, and is now quite useable and featureful.

MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC / TV into a very advanced Media Center. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch and store your videos and DVDs, view, schedule and record live TV as a digit

Today Jeff Dean gave a talk at the University of Washington about BigTable – their system for storing large amounts of data in a semi-structured manner. I was unable to find much info about BitTable on the internet, so I decided to take notes and write ab

Earlier articles in the Crossing borders series introduced Ruby on Rails as an explosively popular framework that’s serving as a catalyst for the Ruby programming language. As Ruby experiences increasing success, developers are seeking to integrate their

Today Jeff Dean gave a talk at the University of Washington about BigTable – their system for storing large amounts of data in a semi-structured manner. I was unable to find much info about BitTable on the internet, so I decided to take notes and write ab

Earlier articles in the Crossing borders series introduced Ruby on Rails as an explosively popular framework that’s serving as a catalyst for the Ruby programming language. As Ruby experiences increasing success, developers are seeking to integrate their

Solar-Powered Sun Bricks Add Accent Lighting and Safety, to Dark Paths at Night!

There is a common thread to all self help books. Instead of having to fork out hard earned cash to hear the same message again and again – why not just follow the tips listed below and it will save you time and money. I have called this post “Self Help an

This is a relatively simple, safe and cheap way to remove light or heavy rust from any ferrous object. I used this process to restore an old wood plane that I bought for $1 (it looked totally un-usable because of the rust). As opposed to grinding, heavy w

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In this article I will show how to create a generator that generates the code from my previous article about basic user authentication in rails.