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In a move towards testing yet another sort of Content Management System, I’ve now set up my Wiki. I had installed Mambo Server for a while but I found that despite being quick to set up, there was a lot of functionality that I didn’t really need. My real need at the moment is somewhere to put linkx or just start gathering notes that is easy to go and update. A wiki seemed like the best thing for the job.

I’ve also adapted a plugin for Wordpress that allows me to link my Wiki HomePage through traditional wiki words without any additional effort. Thanks Wordpress Wiki.

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Although today’s society appears to be driven by a capitalist economy (where short-term gains appear to be outweigh long term objectives), there is something that I find enticing about a company that attempts to balance the conflict between making money and doing good in the world.

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Tonight I celebrated the passing of yet another successful year in the life of Ben with of bunch of his mates at the Aspley Lonestar! Overcoming the short notice of the gathering and the ‘how-the-heck-do-I-get-there-with-those-directions’ issue, I still managed to turn up (within a reasonable timeframe) for a great dinner with some great people! Happy birthday Bender!

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I spent this Saturday up in Brisbane as I was heading out to one of the best Indian restaurants in Brisbane (Punjabi Palace). The great Brisbane weather meant I could sleep in and yet still go for a ride just before lunch on a perfectly mild winter day. Though I was wishing during my 40km ride for some sort of Camelbak hydration system, the places in which I did stop to drink from my bottle of water gave some great photo moments. Brisbane has a pretty good bike way (despite a number of them simply being ‘quiet’ streets) and combined with the good weather makes it an awesome place to just go for a casual ride.

Perhaps I could have cycled further had I a road bike…

Check out some of the photos I took with my Canon Ixus II (highly recommended):
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Tonight Ben, Michelle and Karen came around for dinner since I hadn’t had to chance to catch up with them for ages. Although I ran into Ben and Michelle last week at Jorge farewelling another friend of mine, Katherine, we didn’t really get a chance to chat that much. Catching up with Karen was also long overdue (especially since I was looking forward to seeing her at our last visit to Koh-ya). Though we talked about old times at Elcaro, it was good to hear everything was going well in their current state of events.
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Not having worked in industry for all that long I still have many memories of the way software engineering was taught at University. I had an awesome time and experience at University but I think there’s something about academic institutions that severely affects their ability to keep up with industry. I would definitely like to go into teaching one day as I had ball tutoring but I don’t think I could ever become a real academic because their velocity (forgive the poor agile pun) is too slow for me.

Andy blogs about this far better here than I could in any post. Definitely good reading!

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Yesterday I came in close contact with the horrible stench of a backport. No one really likes backporting code (all good programmers can identify the risks involved) but this one turned into a real stinker when a few other volatile elements were added to the mix. A poor release plan resulted in a day-before-the-release backport, and the release cycle that has been slipping further away from development cycles meant that the code required backporting into multiple branches! Why a stench?

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Some open source projects (especially those that don’t have a critical mass for usage just yet) are notoriously bad for documentation or just getting it up and running. Over the last two weeks I have had a pretty good experience with a number of projects. So thanks to the following projects for being useful and easy to use:

• Wordpress.org - The blog software I am using. Installed in less then 10 minutes.
• ViewCVS - Awesome tool for a graphical CVS repository browser. Also useful for doing nice visual diffs and retrieving deleted files out of the Attic without knowing their names! After getting the only prerequisite that not been met (RCS) installed, running a start up script got it going straight away.
• Mambo Server - Currently playing around with it as my CMS. Fantastic documentation and installed in less than 5 minutes.
• Subversion - A replacement being developed addressing issues with CVS.

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