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One of my pet hates on the web is grey on white fonts. They really annoy me, perhaps my eyesight isn't that good. For 600 years since Gutenberg mankind has been fed a healthy diet of black fonts on a white background, and all of a sudden the last twenty years has seen web page designers using grey and other pastel colours on a white background.

VLC, the video player from Videolan.org is my favourite video player. It does pretty much everything you can think of. I use it a lot to view technical videos from the web and have found one feature I really like.

It has a sharpen feature which comes in really handy when viewing screen recording demos. The processing by some of the video websites like youtube and myspace often degrades the image quality, this coupled with the fact that the Flash format isn't that good with text in videos. Quicktime is much better.

I blogged a few months ago about the Scaffold Shuffle and now I think I have found the framework which will probably make all that go away, Seaside.

This is a framework which has been around for a number of years, written in Smalltalk which has been around even longer, a veritable Daddy among OOP languages.

It is with great sadness that I announce the passing way of Personal Computer World magazine. This great magazine was greatly loved by its readership, and was a stalwart in the early days of personal computing. Everything could be found there. It felt fresh, progressive and informative and was always at the cutting edge of technology. Whatever it was, you would find it there, and that is where a lots of readers got to know of developments in personal computing.

Notice on the home page of the Pharo¹ a Smalltalk project.

If you are looking for the Pharo² free open-source PHP programming framework, go here. Seriously, if you are looking at PHP you should have a look at Seaside first.

I have been dabbling in some of the new frameworks, a bit of symfony and a bit of rails, and one thing that hampers productivity is always having to navigate directories when switching between models, views, controllers and the like. You get a bit of that with Drupal, although in its case you are usually switching between your themes and custom modules. So many directories to be switching among all the time.

This is an article documenting the development of this website. It is just a log of the things I plan to do and when I completed them. Trac can do it, and there some Drupal modules that can do this as well, but I will stick to this article for some time.

Task list to date
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Things to be done
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Switch to FastCGI < 10min

I was going to add Dreamhost, but I will save it for another article (after I set up my promo code).

One very useful module in Drupal is the Node Privacy By Role module. It allows the automatic setting of viewing and editing permissions on nodes according to the users role. It is not as fine grained as one that operates on the node and the usesr, but it is very useful for making newly created content automatically available to selected roles.

I have wanted to revive my blogging, mostly tech related stuff. My previous one got cluttered with all kinds of irrelevant stuff and made it unsuitable as a blog.