Bozo Users

Just installed bbPress for our team members and while cruising around the admin, saw this awesome plugin - ‘Bozo Users,’ which is described as:
Allows moderators to mark certain users as a “bozo”. Bozo users can post, but their content is only visible to themselves.
Now that’s funny.

Migrating to MySQL from SQL Server with MySQL’s Migration Toolkit

I’ve been a big fan of MySQL for quite a while, and one of the reasons is its ease and simplicity of use. I’m in the process of migrating a SQL Server database to MySQL and aside from the relief that moving away from SQL Server will bring, I have to mention MySQL’s Migration [...]

Upgrading from Rails 1.0 to 1.1 and upgrading from Ruby 1.8.2 to 1.8.4 on Windows

Tons of exciting new and exciting features are now available as a part of Rails 1.1, which was released today. But to get up and running, I needed to upgrade from Ruby 1.8.2 to 1.8.4 before doing so. On Windows it’s pretty simple:
1. Download and install the one click installer. The release notes indicate [...]

Software and Art

“The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. (As we shall see later, this very [...]

CVS setup on Dreamhost

Setting up CVS on Dreamhost (my experience with them has been awesome so far) was easier than I thought it would be.
Step 1 - create a new directory to serve as your cvs root. It can be called whatever you like.
Step 2 - set the cvsroot. If your shell is bash(which mine is), [...]