Conceptric

The archives for April 2008

  1. Claimed in Technorati

    This is just a post to let me claim my blog in Technorati, like there’s any chance I’d give them my username and password. Technorati Profile.
    OK, I agree that this has very little to do with the general topics in this blog, but it was a test, looks pretty, and it’s blue like the overall [...]

  2. Drupal revisited

    Four months on and it’s time to review progress on the Northamptonshire Bird Club website. Is Drupal working out the way I hoped?

  3. Anatomy of a semantic blog

    Whilst working on a new Wordpress theme I started wondering what makes a blog semantic. How do you use the mark—up to convey meaning about the content?

  4. A remote future for my Mac mini

    I’ve come up with a brilliant idea to reuse my old Mac mini. I’m going to convert it into a server on my local network for development and hosting our personal web projects.
    OK… not very original, but the key point is that I want to be able to use the wireless networking, stick it [...]

  5. First impressions of MarsEdit

    I’m writing on the 30 day trial of MarsEdit, the blog editing tool for the Mac. Given that this is my second post of the day — very rare, I know — you might have gathered that I like it.
    I’ve always edited my online content remotely, I have a local copy and can work [...]

  6. Virtualizing my world

    Virtualization is definitely a big trend in computing and I’m growing to love it.
    On the Web.
    My production server environment is virtualized by the Xen hypervisor; providing a more flexible and cost effective solution.
    I like the freedom of complete root access but, given my relatively low traffic volumes, the cost of a dedicated server would be [...]