Category Archives: IT

Thoughts on the WordPress & Thesis GPL hoo-haa

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Richard Nichols

The blogosphere has been railing back and forth the past week about the assertion made by Matt Mullenweg that themes are covered by the GPL, as is WordPress. This post is a pretty good jumping off point if you need … Continue reading →

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How-to: Add Code Syntax Highlighting to MediaWiki

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Richard Nichols

Here’s a short tutorial on how to integrate Google’s “prettify.js” (which does automatic syntax highlighting of code snippets) into a MediaWiki wiki installation. This is totally done MacGyver style, we’re going to patch the MediaWiki skin to do it. For … Continue reading →

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Back to Dreamhost…

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Richard Nichols

I’ve had to move this site back to Dreamhost temporarily as I FUBAR’ed my Linode instance by executing “yum update”. Fortunately I have regular word press backups happening so I didn’t really loose much, except my temper. I was having … Continue reading →

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“60 Mario and friends” – Apple’s response

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Richard Nichols

I actually brought the previously posted “60 Mario and friends” app to Apple’s attention through their iTunes app support page. But apparently Apple doesn’t really care if their customers are being deceived. Here’s their response: Thank you for your interest … Continue reading →

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