Year: 2008

Is twitter dead?

Chad

It’s weird how attached I’ve become to this service, but connectivity to the service has been rather hit or miss for the last couple of weeks. And now it’s been completely unreachable since some point last night.

I understand that this is a free service and how can you really complain about something you get for nothing? Well, while I don’t consider twitter a service I would ever pay money for, but I’ve never been opposed to ads integrated with the tweets.

In this world of web 2.0 services, you either need to be able to scale to the demand or die a slow horrible death. It seems as though twitter is heading for the latter.

Need to figure out why ScribeFire ‘Schedules’ posts instead of ‘Publishes’ them

Chad

Every time I write a post using the Firefox plugin, ScribeFire, it schedules the post instead of actually publishing the content, even though I tell it to publish. Then the real kicker is I can’t figure out how to get it to publish via the WordPress control. If I tell it to publish, it just goes back to ‘Scheduled’. This is irrating.

Update: Ok, I believe I figured out why ScribeFire schedules the post. ScribeFire has it’s own timestamping functionality and my computers time is two hours ahead of the servers time, so wordpress won’t publish the story until the timestamp is equal to or greater than the ScribeFire timestamp.

OOo Extension – Sun Wiki Publisher

Chad

The Sun Wiki Publisher enables you to create Wiki articles on
MediaWiki servers without having to know the syntax of the MediaWiki
markup language. Publish your new and existing documents transparently
with the Writer to a wiki page.

All important text attributes such as headings, hyperlinks, lists
and simple tables are supported. Even images are supported as long as
they have already been uploaded to the wiki site. An automatic upload
of images is currently not supported.

It is the perfect extension for all users who want to make existing
documentations and specifications available on MediaWiki servers. Just
load the document and call the Extension with ‘Send – MediaWiki
Server’. A dialog will guide you to publish your document.

Download: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/wikipublisher

Getting Adobe Air and Apps to work on Arch Linux

Chad

1. Download AIR-SDK from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air_linux.html
2.
Create a directory, e.g. “~/AIR-SDK”. Extract the AIR-SDK’s .tar.bz2
file in this directory (cd ~/AIR-SDK; tar jxvf
/path/to/adobeair_linux_sdk_a1_033108.tbz2) so that adl can be found at
“~/AIR-SDK/bin/adl”.
3. Create a directory, e.g. “~/app”. Use
“unzip” to extract the contents of an AIR application: cd ~/app; unzip
/path/to/application_package.air
4. Use adl to launch the application:

~/AIR-SDK/bin/adl -nodebug ~/app/META-INF/AIR/application.xml ~/app

Linux Reality Podcast Complete Archive DVD Available

Chad

Linux Reality, one of the first and best podcasts for Linux users has ceased production as of episode 100. Chess has decided to end the series for personal reasons and everyone of the shows fans supports his decision. Chess has very recently announced the release of the complete 100 shows along with show notes on a single DVD. All for only $30.

What a great way to say thanks to Chess for everything he has done. Chess and his podcasts are now part of the Linux revolution and every new user should make his episodes part if their learning just like they may buy a book or take a class.

I’ve sent my email to order one.

To order, just send him an email: linuxreality@gmail.com
Full info: Link