Category: Open source
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A newbie’s first adventure in open source
It only takes one line of code to make a believer
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It’s official: my ER22x certificate of completion
I’ve blogged recently about how intellectually invigorating it is to take university courses from HarvardX and other leading universities online. (Here, here and here.) Well, tonight I downloaded my first official certificate of completion, which is posted nearby. If you click on the image, you can see it comes with its own verification URL —…
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I hate Drupal
The first iteration of www.vuuch.com was in Drupal. That decision doesn’t count among the best we have made. Since last August, I’ve struggled to warm to Drupal. Today, I am coming out of the Drupal-hating closet to tell the world what a mess this system is. It’s impenetrable, unsupportable, slow, awkward, poorly architected and ugly. I’ve…
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reCAPTCHA isn’t Boston-ese for being repeatedly tagged for speeding on the Pike
Try as I might, I just khant imitate a Boston accent
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C’mon and gimme that ole time subculture
First, I hope this racy image won’t have the MPAA giving my blog an R rating…but it was such a cool graphic I couldn’t help myself. Well…ahem…back to the post at hand. I’ve been taking some…uh…commentary from both friends and business associates about my apparent infatuation with all things blog and podcast, but especially about…