Derek Keats Blog
A blog by dkeats
Blog description:
Musings on technology, education, society, eLerning and nature.
Blog Rank:
Derek Keats Blog ranks 1705 in Africa and 1099 in South Africa. According to site visitors it ranks 1118, and 1145 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 2319 and 2301 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
Digital business card for #Chisimba using microformats
This weekend, I started a microformat based business card for Chisimba. It is extremely simple to use, and can generate a business card that links to your social networking sites, as well as standard address and other information. It is not finished yet but you can get a taste
The current generation of eBooks and readers are CRAP: #ebook_rip
We only buy things if we perceive the value to us to be more than the cost of the purchase. There are lots of factors that affect the perception of value. If I buy a good novel for R120, then I think of it as very good value, which is
Getting Ubuntu ready for a Postgres install of Chisimba, Part 2
How to prepare your developer system for a Chisimba install using Postgres as the database. This video covers checking Chisimba out into your home folder in a folder that you create called 'chisimba'. This is different from the normal Chisimba install, and has nothing to do with Postgres, rather with
Little critters: my photos
Here are some macro shots of insects and spiders from my Flickr photostream. I love shooting macro, and have only just finally worked out how to manipuate depth of field at this close range. I use a Canon 50D and a couple of different flashes, including a Canon macro flash.
Imagine if the colour red were patented: Freedom to Innovate Sout
Tell your friends and colleagues about Freedom to Innovate South Africa! Download and share this campaign poster on your website or blog, or use it as your profile picture on your social networking sites, and link it to http://ftisa.org.za.
Birdlife of Southern Africa: my photos
Here are some photos of birds of southern Africa that I have taken and uploaded to Flickr. They are included here courtesy of the QUICKEMBED filter. There are 80 photographs in the set at the time of writing, but of course the set will grow as I take more photographs.
Short guide to installing modules for #Chisimba using a svn check
This is a short guide to installing modules for Chisimba using a svn checkout made by David Janks at Wits. [YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsf26AKEjMc[/YOUTUBE]
Helping to test the #Chisimba #oEmbed provider
Please note that you can only do this test if you have the Wordpress oEmbed plugin installed. We are developing Chisimba to be an oembed provider. We need help testing whether the content we provide works with oembed consumers. One of these is
Getting Ubuntu ready for a Postgres install of Chisimba 3 - symli
How to prepare your developer system for a Chisimba install using Postgres as the database. This clip covers setting your Postgres permissions and symlinking your developer checkout of Chisimba into /var/www. This is my personal preference, not necessarily the only way to set up a developer machine.
New #Chisimba plugin for oEmbed sites: QUICKEMBED
For my holiday pleasure, I created a new filter for Chisimba based on the jQuery oEmbed plugin. The idea is that you can paste a URL from any site that supports oEmbed, and Chisimba will embed the content for you. Thus it works like lots of other filters, except you
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dkeats Is there no way to connect twitter to afrigator? Seems so 2008. on Jan 17, 2010, 8:20 pm
dkeats Just renewing my familiarity with Afrigator, I had quite forgotten about it. http://afrigator.com on Dec 21, 2009, 11:05 am