I’m a blackberry user - I make no apologies for it. I’m not a Crackberry Head and fairly frequently use the Phone Only setting or even turn it off completely but, as it stands, I am a blackberry user. I’m also a tech head and am very, very demanding of my phones. They have to [...]
Archive > August 2008
We’re all going on a …
really fucking long drive actually.
The summer holiday is more or less upon us and this year the GGF and I are off across Europe in a big wobbly mess of countries that would make Indiana Jones blush with shame and reach for his passport.
Don’t believe me? Check out the route
In brief we are attending 2 [...]
Choosing a CMS Part 3 - Wordpress
Wordpress (in this example Wordpress >= 2.5) is now well known as the number 1 hosted and self installable blog platform in the world. Based on PHP and MySQL (a trend you’ll see continuing as we move through the other apps) the Wordpress application is solid, moderately fast and reasonably customisable.
I’m not the first to [...]
Lock down your PC
A quick one for all those who are wondering where they can get free security software for their PCs:
30+ Free Security, Encryption Firewall and Antivirus Apps for Windows
My recomendations?
Antivirus - AVG 8 (but disable the link scanner)
Firewall - Zone Alarm
Encryption - Truecrypt
Digital Signing and Encryption - GnuPG
Although you know what my ultimate recomendation would be [...]
Choosing a CMS - Part 2 - Requirements
Before I head into platform specific notes, there are a couple of things that should be cleared up in terms of requirements from a CMS.
In it’s most basic form, and Online CMS should provide:
The facility to manage pages of content from within the user’s browser
The ability to generate and apply a template or theme to [...]
