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Monthly Archive for April, 2006

Upgrading K2 with WinMerge

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on 29 April, 2006
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If you are not a software developer you might not have heard of the term code merging or tools like WinMerge.

In this post, you can see how I use Winmerge to merge my changes with the K2 svn and keep it in sync with the lastest development.

I want to share this because some people asked me about my AdAdvantage scheme update. Unfortunately I do not have the time to follow each svn update, but you could use this tip to help yourself. This is especially useful if the lastest version fix a bug in the version you are using.

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Blogging for donation

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Ken
on 27 April, 2006
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Or rather, donating revenue from blogging.

You can read my report, I’m not getting much from my online activities although my target is to gain income from online activities by end of 2006.

A new target however is to donate part of my revenue to opensource or other free projects.
This idea comes about as I was using the Stress Free Webmin ‘Tiger’ theme.

When you sign on the this Webmin theme, the author ask for a donation. Normally I will just treat is as a nag. This time I paid attention.

Why?

Because this Webmin theme is a killer! If you are still using the standard Webmin theme, you shoud must get this. If you use it and disagree, I will pay you!

David, the donation is on the way once I get Google cheque.

Here’s what am going to do next,

  • make a list of opensource/free applications I use
  • donate a part of my revenue each time I get a cheque

Stay tuned. Share the love.

links for Apr 24-30

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Ken
on 25 April, 2006
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Not much surfing this week. Researching for a coming development and more WordPress related themes and plugins.

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AdAdvantage now a K2 scheme

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Ken
on 23 April, 2006
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Do you like this new theme? I had just updated my theme to the be based on K2.

Doing a WordPress theme from sketch take time and commitment. I should know because my last unfinished theme lingers after the initial effort. When I started the AdAdvantage theme, I had the idea but not the time to bring it to fruition.

I knew of the K2 theme and had been wanting to try it. But it was not until I found the 3 column modification by Bharath Kumar mentioned by LiewCF that I really got around to try it.

This weekend I sync the 3 column modification with the latest svn version of K2. Some modification were made to include google ads units as templates.

While doing the sync with the svn version, changes were isolated to the scheme folder. This should help with future upgrade and keep up with K2 development.

Take a look.

links for Apr 17 - 23

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Ken
on 18 April, 2006
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This weeks’s focus:

  • blogging, wordpress templates, design

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links for Apr 10 - 16

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Ken
on 16 April, 2006
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What am I interesting in this week?

  • still researching on wiki
  • backup storage solutions

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Calandar from Google. About time

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Ken
on 14 April, 2006
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I’m not sorry to be Google’s mouth piece again. Because this time they released what I had been waiting for a long time - Google Calendar.

Google Calendar

There was a sneak preview on Techcrunch in early March and now it’s out. Learn of it from my GMail web clip.

A while back, I started using 30Boxes but stopped.

Feature is one thing but integration is another. I’m not a person that would use one site for email, another site for calendar and yet another for address book, all because they are best of breed. Put them in one place please.

That’s why portal like Yahoo works before and Google is doing a fantastic job wooing me.

Yahoo, why can’t you open your all-too-great Yahoo mail beta to non-US users?

Nevermind, I’m using GMail now.

So let see when Google is giving me a better address book.

Blue Security - Stopping spam

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Ken
on 13 April, 2006
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Blue Security

Thanks to a tip-off by Vince, I learnt of Blue Security.

Put simply, the idea behind Blue Security is to stop spam by community pressure, what they called Active DeterrenceTM. Watch this flash introduction.

I’m focusing on the consumer solution here. They also have solution for corporates, email marketers and website owners.

You are required to download a software to install on your computer. As usual I’m reluctant. However SiteAdvisor has some good comments and the program is open source. So I believe they are bona fide and safe.
My thoughts?

While this will work with regular online retailers that want to maintain reputation, I doubt it would work with hardcore spammers that paddles viagra, porn, logo, ipod, make money quick, nigeria scams and what have you. Their sole purpose to existance is to spam.

If you have use it, what’s your experiences?