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XAMPP
I would just like everyone to know how sweet XAMPP is: it’s very sweet. It’s a full package of Apache + MySQL and a slew of admin tools that you can install on your box quickly to host a website. I use it on my home computers to design kickass WordPress sites locally like this one here and it works great on my Mac and Windows boxes. Here’s an article how to use XAMPP to develop WordPress offline before you bring online.
Zelda Speed Run
hwork: I’m live-blogging an event geeks everywhere can relate to over on my blog: Zelda 64 in 12 hours.
House Episode refers to Robocup
Just further evidence over the power of Aibos in popular culture: House Episode Talks about Robocup [My Blog]
Nifty ‘ARCHIVES’ links
Added nifty ‘Archives’ links to for the Dev Blog (which is simply a category called ‘Shorts’) and for the overall blog next to the RSS feed link.
Shorts Permalinks Broke
If you click on the ‘#’ at the end of these Asides posts, you’ll go to the permalink for the post. However, for some reason, it will not post the entire message. That’s annoying.
Makefile Madness2
Makefiles pretty much all sorted. Code properly compiles but there are a billion more warnings now that i’ll have to sort through. Dogs boot up and run fine, but quitting aiboConnect crashes the machine. something with the ceaseHeadSlowly method (!).
Short Shorts
Quick notes for the rest of the team or to quickly document some progress will go here from now on.
Makefile Madness
OK–
I’ve just completely redone the way the team gets its code to the memory sticks. It’s heavily influenced from the open-source rUNSWift code, who know OPEN-R and Makefiles way better than I. The code is insanely modular which will allow our team to easily port among various platforms, code, and computer configurations.
We now use rsync to more efficiently copy files over, and use Makefiles instead of shell scripts. Moreover, I’ve added a lot more compiling flags to make our analysis of bad code easier.
This takes us a significant step closer to python integration.
WP 2.0 RC3
Just upgraded to the beta WordPress 2.0 RC3 on my laptop. It went fairly easily with some hacks. Will hold off on upgrading this site until WordPress hits 2.0 fully and K2–the ub3r WordPress template this site uses– supports it. Looks like 2.0 will be official very soon….