Blog posts index page 7

A new blog engine

For a long time I have wanted to find an alternative to Wordpress. It felt like an obstacle which needed overcoming every time I had an idea for a blog post. The result being that I didn’t get any posts published (I have a few drafts which I never finished).

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My Gnome 3 usability issues

I’ve just installed Gnome 3.6 (some packages might still be 3.5.9x) on my laptop by upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10 beta2 together with the Gnome 3 PPA for a few missing things like the updated Nautilus.

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A plugin system for clojure-blog

In order to support different syntax for posts, smileys and hook-ins in general I searched the web for inspiration and found the following link which have some cool info:

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Lazy import of csv file in Clojure

I’ve been looking at Clojure now and then for a while… really wanna learn this stuff :) The other day I needed to import a very large CSV file… and it seemed like a good problem to try solve in Clojure.

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Quick Launch Looking Glass

Today I took the plunge into something I’ve been wanting to do for a very long time: help developing Open Source Software. I’ve started off small :) I’ve been messing around with gnome-shell and looking into how extensions work. What better way to start than scratching and itch? I found it annoying to press Alt+F2 followed by “lg” and Enter to open Looking Glass (Gnome 3’s integrated debugger and inspector tool) all the time.

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Storing encrypted data in Amazon S3

I have a lot of digital photos which I would be very sad to loose. I was recommended Amazon S3 as a cheap storage solution and even though it is possible to use https to transfer your data to S3 in a secure way the data itself isn’t encryptet within Amazon. I’m looking for a solution where my photos of my son in the bathtub are secured from all prying eyes including the Amazon tech staff.

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jQuery Draggable/Droppable: Revert on drop

Background:

At work we are currently in the process of creating a general data hub which is easily expendable and configurable. It’s already in use exchanging EDI messages (EDIFACT) for a supplier on the danish electricity market.

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