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Now powered by WordPress

Recently, during my downtime, I’ve been slowly migrating the blog to a new system 1 doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what that system is 😉

The “move” wasn’t really prompted by one being superior over the other (i.e. MT vs WP). Truth be told, while migrating it became very clear to me that MovableType was by far the more superior system simply by the way it tackles data-flow processes. The best analogy I could give now is similar to why I still use Windows for my audio recording when I use OS X for everything else: because it’s more practical.

PC audio apps are cracked left and right whereas OS X audio apps aren’t as easy to find. Take out the whole piracy aspect out of it, and we have a similar situation: WordPress has more plugins being developed than MovableType 2 or at least the plugins I use. I initially wanted to upgrade to MT 4.x, but when I looked for the plugins I considered to be indispensable, I found that WordPress was the better choice.

I’ll do another post for my opinion regarding the switch; for now, let me just welcome you to the new system by pointing out the changes. Read More

Notes

Notes
⇡1 doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what that system is 😉
⇡2 or at least the plugins I use
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Mobile OSX 2.2

So updates to the iPhone/iPod Touch OSes were released, and again, it was another one of those “cross your finger” moments of upgrading; making sure everything restores and nothing breaks. In my case, something broke… and I traced it back to the plethora of pre-installed Cydia stuff.

The “fix” was easy once I figured out the problem; simply let Cydia’s core components install from PwnageTool stock setting (because you can manually download the individual components, which is normally useful if the “stock” stuff are outdated. Since PwnageTool was updated specifically for 2.2, I figured it was using the most recent builds.

So simply put, I didn’t include any of the RED tagged components listed below.

I also updated the “list” from the last time since there have been some changes since the last time I analyzed the files.

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Investing in one’s self

Jason Calacanis said that the best thing to do when on an economic downturn is to invest on one’s self. If you’re a company, concentrate on your core business keep focused, improve and grow your core. Individually, if you’re a 8/10 programmer, now’s the time to invest into becoming a 9/10. Whatever the case may be, the point is now’s the worst time to be worrying about anything external. On the contrary; now’s probably the time where the adage “help yourself before you can help others” is most applicable.

In any case, I decided to put a little spin on that and justified my most recent purchase:


What’s different in this picture?

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Synchronicity

Ok a lot of people have been asking for this. So for all two of you, here’s how to get your multiple Mac machine’s synced up without having to resort to a paid service (e.g. MobileMe) 😉 This is where everything is going… you mark my words.

Now for the obligatory introduction:

As you all know, computers have become more and more integrated into our everyday lives. And apart from the OS, there are some applications that we rely on almost all the time. Mail, Calendars, Addressbooks, etc. And these are constantly updated. And in the era of portable computing, keeping these devices “synchronized” is an important, but difficult task.

I’m here to give you some suggestions on how to deal with such data – because on OS X you can have near-realtime, reliable synchronization for free. Read More