When I was dabbling in QBasic and Visual Basic a decade ago, I never thought about using version control. Later, I learnt about CVS and SVN and thought it was a neat way of enabling lot’s of people to collaborate online. I used it so I could access cutting edge open source software, but never […]
I know that I am egregiously late with this assignment, and I apologize for that. In addition to some major events in my personal life, two important things have happened that are quite related to this course. The first is that I finally submitted my application for an MA in theory and policy studies at […]
While working for CARE Indonesia we were trying to implement a web-based intranet file repository, that the different sub offices could use to store their documents, to increase both archival (backup, etc) but also cross-project and organizational learning. I found the project Boxroom, a Ruby on Rails project that seemed to do pretty much what […]
With this, I am officially releasing the Wikipedia Offline Server 0.21 into the world (thanks Liam and Espen B-P for helping to test 0.1 and 0.2).
UPDATE: I’ve made a static page about the Wikipedia Offline Server, and released version 0.22. Go to the new page.
UPDATE: The new, significantly changed project, now lives on Gitorious.org.
Download the […]
I had the chance to work with the CitizenLab at the University of Toronto for a few months in my first year at UofT, helping them test the censorship systems in China (because I speak and read Chinese). I even did a translation of operating regulations for Internet cafes in China. The guys there are […]
It´s already been noted by for exampel Google and Flickr that opening up your api (the interface to your website) and allowing other programmes / webpages to interact with your data can be hugely positive in creating a community, that can come up with ideas that you never dreamt of. See for example the Flickr […]
In listing some of the technologies I’d found useful yesterday, I forgot to mention XAMPP, which is an integrated package of Apache, Php and Mysql, all configured to “just work”. Download a 30MB file, on Linux or Window, unpack and you are ready to go. Works out of the box. On Windows, this is a […]
This last week I have been working unusually hard. After fighting for a while with EZPublish, which is what Politics of Health is published with, I have decided to try to migrate the whole system to a wiki. The article structure is very simple, we hardly use any of the CMS features of EZPublish, and […]
