• Mac OS X Server,  public speaking

    Spots Available in Collaboration Services MacWorld Session

    There are still some openings in the session I’ll be doing on February 10th at MacWorld on Collaboration Services. It’s going to be about shared wikis, blogs, calendars, address books and a little Podcast Producer in the end. If you are thinking of deploying this type of solution or have deployed them but would like to know more then check it out: http://www.macworldexpo.com/sessions?s=QEXPOA0000C7

  • Mac OS X Server

    Cleaning Up Podcast Producer

    THIS CAN BE A VERY DANGEROUS COMMAND, USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. I’ve been seeing Podcast Producer deployed into a number of different types of environments. One of these is into school environments with quarterly turnover cycles. In these environments, all blog posts over a certain number of days old should be deleted routinely (namely when the quarter changes). Because in some environments, there can be hundreds, if not thousands, of posts, removing old content is cumbersome at best. Never fear, the find command can look at just items that have aged a certain number of days. This is accomplished using the -mtime options. The find command can also…

  • Articles and Books,  sites

    Snow, Clouds, OpenID and PDAs

    In recognition of the massive quantities of snow in my back yard at the moment I have installed Let It Snow. Props to Aen Tan for making it easy. Also, installed Cumulus, that cute tag cloud app I’ve been seeing all over the place. I hate to keep up with the Joneses (WP-style) but really, it’s nicely done… Have’ta scroll a little down past the graphics in the right nav bar. But it’s there… OpenID has also been integrated to allow for commenting.  I realize I’ve never really allowed comments.  But if you have an OpenID account I think it’s OK…  Also, there are two different themes that auto-redirect based…