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Sunday, July 21, 2002

Well I'm To See the Source... The Wonderful World of Source... Well my WiFi card does work yet, I'm behind on email, etc, etc, etc.  Still I have a server side blog and a quasi working laptop and a digital camera so I'm ready for OSCON (O'Reilly Open Source Convention)!!!  If you're there, look for me in shorts, sandals and one of a number of classic geek tshirts (Dataware, Netscape, NTERGAID and, to be controversial, John Wiley and Sons (hey! it's an O'Reilly conference and I'm a Wiley author too, only makes sense).  Replacement FuzzyBlog: http://scottsweblog.com/ Replacement RSS URL: 12:09:13 PM  Google It!  comment []   IM Me About This

Cool: A Drupal Module for The Amazon API Is In the Works Example: http://apache.dataloss.nl/~breyten/module.php?mod=amazon 11:42:28 AM  Google It!  comment []   IM Me About This

How to Make a Geek Feel Good Here's something that makes a geek feel really, really good: Spend a weekend slaving over a hot keyboard writing code that's been in your head since at least 1999. Get it mildly, barely working. Show it to two people you respect and have both say to you, almost immediately, "I Want It". Know that since it's GPL'd (or will be once it's not version 0.0001.a.Sunday.Morning.AfterBreakfast) it will get some level of wide distribution. I feel good. Comment: Sorry for all the really short entries over the past 2 days but I'm in hard core code grind (the scenario above is a) real  and b) just happened to me) and can't break free to write anything longer right now but I have some good stuff planned for the plane flight to OSCON. 6:06:09 AM  Google It!  comment []   IM Me About This

Cool! Themes for Drupal My friend in Indonesia, Joe Friend (no joke afaik), is looking at Drupal for a project and commented on the lack of themes.  He's right -- but this isn't the product, it's just an issue of themes not being created.  Drupal is currently largely in use by us geekier folk and pretty themes tend not to be our priority.  But it's important to understand that Drupal has a great theming architecture -- one PHP file controls all look and feel issues.  So I asked www.natrak.net for examples of Dupal sites with different themes and here's the list: http://www.tejasa.com/ http://www.debianplanet.com/ (the biggest Drupal site yet) http://www.kerneltrap.org/ http://www.dirtbike.ws/http://www.fuzzball.org/ http://www.fuzzball.org/ http://www.natrak.net/ http://iaslash.org/ 6:00:07 AM  Google It!  comment []   IM Me About This

Sounds Cool: Business Plan Archive. Business Plan Archive To help us learn from history, we are creating the Business Plan Archive (BPA) to collect business plans and related documents from the dot com era -- the "blueprints" that lay out the assumptions and strategies of Internet entrepreneurs. Thanks Tony! 4:58:00 AM  Google It!  comment []   IM Me About This

MySQL best practices Jeremy Zawody ably dissects the insanity that is the latest MySQL article on O'Reilly's OnLamp. This article is written by one of the authors of O'Reilly's latest book on MySQL, and has probably served to ensure that I don't buy this book. I'd add the following comments to Jeremy's: (Read the Rest -- Recommended) 4:55:17 AM  Google It!  comment []   IM Me About This

Cool!  Paolo Made DayPop!!! Neat.  Paolo's Shared Outline story made DayPop.  Daypop Redirect: http://www.daypop.com/redirect?id=31364924 Paolo's Story: http://paolo.evectors.it/stories/sharedOutlinesBeta.html Note: Both go to the same place but DayPop's ranking doesn't seem to take into account their own redirects (which is kinda silly). 4:08:02 AM  Google It!  comment []   IM Me About This