Due to the overwhelming response to another post, I have taken it upon myself to start up an Open Source Student Information System project. Fox-SIS will be a fork of a once-popular open source student information system.
I will need other people to help. In particular, I need a Graphic Designer (you don’t have to be very good, we just need a replacement logo), PHP coders of any skill level and people who could help with the documentation. Please use the comment form to express interest in participation. I will not display any comments such as these on the page, but will respond to them personally. Other comments will be displayed as normal.
The new website is www.fox-sis.com but it doesn’t have much content on it as of now. If you express interest in participating, please use the register link on fox-sis.com to create an account. I will give you permissions when I hear from you using a comment on here.
The main goal of fox-sis is to continue the old project with the old spirit of openness and community involvement without stepping on anybody’s toes. That’s why it will be especially important to respect the trademarks of others and the terms of the GPL. There have been a lot of forks of this system out there (and the system it is forked from), but my aim with this is not to make a profit, but rather just to help everyone out there who just wants things back to the way they used to be.
In case you have been living in a cave for the last 3 days, Google has come out with a new web browser called Chrome. Right now it is only in beta, but so far it I am very impressed. After only a day of playing around, here are my favorite features. Read the rest of this entry »
How I got a Windows Vista refund from HP | equiliberate
This is beautiful. Now you can get yourself a nice linux laptop without paying the microsoft tax.
Running Debian Etch on my server seems at times like a gigantic step backward from the ubuntu server I used to run. But alas, it has been quite a learning experience. I just set up my server to run the No-IP dynamic update client (which is available as a package for ubuntu hardy), but it didn’t work with the included init script. Searching online I found very little help.
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Accepting Ignorance: True Monetary Price of Government
A nice article I just happened upon showing some of the hidden ways in which we are taxed. This was written by a Canadian, but it looks pretty close to how America is working today.
‘Body Of Christ’ Snatched From Church, Held Hostage By UCF Student - News Story - WFTV Orlando
Being a recovering catholic, this about made me just about die laughing. Rather than sit here and come up with some more jokes (which wouldn’t be that hard), I just suggest you read the article. It is funny enough on it’s own.
Apparently you can get rid of a mosquito bite by putting scotch tape on it. Who wouldda thunk it?
When on linux, there is nothing but good old vim for me. This little tutorial even taught me some new stuff and I have been hooked on vim for quite some time now. For any noobs, a better tutorial for you is here.
Dustin, whose family just joined our church told me about this guy. Ergun Caner is now the Dean of Liberty Baptist Seminary. His testimony is very inspiring and enlightening - a must see. One of the very profound things he pointed out at ~4:10 is that ‘you don’t have the option of respecting Jesus, you can either revere him as God or reject him as a fraud, but you don’t have the option of just respecting Him’.
The concept of scaffolding in Rails 2.1.0 has been bugging me for a while and I haven’t been able to find out much about it online (at least what I wanted to know), so I am going to address my issues. I have been designing an app on rails that doesn’t fit the normal rails model as snugly as it should and am building the model level first and making sure everything works on the command line before I even bother with the GUI. Read the rest of this entry »