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Jonathan Harris — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:11:38 +0000

Macbook challenge

Jonathan Harris — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:55:03 +0000

My old HP Compaq nx9005 is really on it’s last legs and I need a new laptop. I would really like to get a brand new Macbook but I have been waiting for the release of new version of Mac OSX called Leopard as I believe that there will be a big hardware upgrade. With the release of Leopard not happening until October, I have a long time to wait. So I started to think, can I get a laptop now with similar specifactions as a Macbook and maybe a little bit cheaper.

So I want a laptop with Following specs
Windows Vista Home Premium
2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
1GB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
80GB Serial ATA; 5400—rpm
Combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)
Built-in Web cam
13.3-inch TFT widescreen display
Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) Ethernet
Built-in Wi-Fi 802.11n
Built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
Media center remote
Height: 2.75 cm (1.08 inches)
Width: 32.5 cm (12.78 inches)
Depth: 22.7 cm (8.92 inches)
Weight: 2.31 kg (5.1 pounds)

So I am trying finding a laptop like the one above. There is a reward for anyone that can find sure a laptop. I don’t think that anyone can.

Wordpress 2.2 Released

Jonathan Harris — Wed, 16 May 2007 19:26:08 +0000

Finally, after lots of relays the blogging software Wordpress has released a major upgrade 2.2. Looking at the new features it is really is NOT that impressive an upgrade. As this is a 0.1 version different from from 2.1 to 2.2, there isn’t that much difference. It is really nothing comparing this to the difference 2.0 to 2.1.

There is a reason for this as the Development blog says

Most interesting about this release is that is our first under the new, experimental development cycle that we first talked about when we released version 2.1 fewer than 4 months ago. We delayed a few weeks from our target date in April, but ended up under our original
goal of a 4 month major release cycle.

The only features of notes are

WordPress Widgets
Full Atom support
New Blogger importer
Infinite comment stream
Speed optimizations
WYSIWYG support in a future version of Safari.

My advice is not to bother upgrading yet. I had some troubles with Wordpress 2.1 that were only fixed on installing 2.1.3. It is not an easy proccess to install, so I will hold off a couple of weeks. If you do want to download, it can be found on the Wordpress Download page.

Meta blogging

Jonathan Harris — Mon, 14 May 2007 02:11:25 +0000

The Computing Corner is a meta blog, which basically means that it talks about itself. The word meta means “self-referential”. So I thought it would be intesting to blog about the proccess of creating a site around a blog and premade content management system. This blog uses Wordpressto generate the posts, uploud pictures, generate feeds, searching posts and create pages. It is fully PHP/MySQL with no CGI. This means that all the posts and pages are stored in a MySQL database and not stored physically as a html file. This means when a page/post is requested lookuped in the database and inserted into a html stored in the PHP.

Wordpress works extremely well for managing blogs, it is easy to use, light weight (file size), has lots of plugins, is updated and well supported. But it is really is only really designed for managing one weblog. It is true that you have static pages shotting off from the blog, but these only serve to give more information. These static pages can are not included in the feeds or search results which is really ignoring. So if you want to have a weblog and a section with dynamic content, you need to hack wordpress.

So what is the problem?

The computingcorner has serval parts to it. It this site has the

Meta blog - a weblog about itself and little bits,
toolbox - a section of useful pieces of code and scripts
writtings which is longer pieces on many different subjects.

Within the toolbox and works page, there is needed some system of first sorting a dynamic list, filting the new items onto the top, the ability to search all this content and also the ablity to create feeds (xml sitemap and RSS 2.0). All of this has to be done within a wordpress install, keeping the same formatting. Sounds like a lot trouble, it is.

This process it what is taking much more time than I thought it would and it really holding up the launch date. I will keep you updated on this proccess.

Beta Testing

Jonathan Harris — Thu, 03 May 2007 14:00:59 +0000

Welcome to the computingcorner. This is a technology weblog and guide site started by Jonathan Harris. This site is current finding it’s feet and really ready for prime time. This means that they are bits of the site that will not work, links that do not do anything and other little problems. But stick with us in this stage. This testing will hopefully be over soon, when I don’t have a mountain of work to do. I am having problems with Wordpress becuase it is only designed for managing blog posts and I have lots of static pages shotting off like, writings and tools. So I am having to write my own CMS.

There is a lot of really cool things coming to this site and I have really high hopes for it. In the mean while check out my other blog called Spacedmonkey. You can also keep up to date with all the lastest posts with the site’s feed.

WATCH THIS SPACE!