Monthly Archives: November 2004

Added Staticize plugin

Posted on 29 November 2004 by Angus Hardie

To fit in with my views on websites (only as dynamic as absolutely necessary), I have installed this plugin. Hopefully this will not cause too many problems.

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Ebay Suspension

Posted on 27 November 2004 by Angus Hardie

Weird thing happened today. I was checking my email and I saw a message from ebay stating that my account had been suspended. I assumed it was fake and went to visit ebay itself. But it seems real. The whole … Continue reading →

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SQLEditor

Posted on 22 November 2004 by Angus Hardie

Oracle connectivity has been one of the main things I’ve been working on this week with SQLEditor. This involved installing Oracle on my iBook. Oracle 10g is a remarkably complicated bit of software. It arrives in a 500MB+ download which … Continue reading →

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Pocket PC and Mac OS X

Posted on 22 November 2004 by Angus Hardie

In a break from SQLEditor and other similar things I’ve been trying to connect my pocket pc to my macintosh. After some experimentation I have sucessfully installed synce using instructions . I have also got the pocket pc to connect … Continue reading →

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DocBook and Apple Help

Posted on 15 November 2004 by Angus Hardie

One of the key tools I’ve been using recently is Docbook. Docbook is an xml-schema which can be used to write documentation for things. This can then be converted via the wonders of XSL, XML and XML-FO processors into PDF, … Continue reading →

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SQLEditor released!

Posted on 15 November 2004 by Angus Hardie

After a rather over-extended development cycle SQLEditor version 1.0 has now been released. Which is a great relief to me. I’ve been working on it for so long now that I can’t quite remember not working on it, which is … Continue reading →

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Writing Documentation

Posted on 11 November 2004 by Angus Hardie

I’m currently in the middle of writing user documentation of SQLEditor. I finally settled on docbook as the format of choice since it seems the most compatible with other things. I’m using this tutorial to build the stuff although saxon … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X keyboard layouts

Posted on 01 November 2004 by Angus Hardie

I was reading macsurfer today and I came across an interesting article by a Canadian called Joe Clark who wanted to remove the US flag from the input mode menu item. This got me thinking, could I write something that … Continue reading →

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