Today I attended the IAC conference that was held this week in Cape Town. I could write a long essay about my experience there but I believe the image below will do a better job PS. I also touched a moon rock!
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Linfiniti goes scrummy
We just bought a nice big whiteboard at Linfiniti HQ so that we can really use SCRUM project management to good effect. Now if Rudi could just get a few more of those post-its into the Done! column, we can all go home and relax for the weekend
Addition to the Linfiniti team
Just an update to let you know that I have recently joined Linfiniti. I was lucky enough to be an intern earlier in the year, and am happy to be part of the team again, and helping in bringing Open Source GIS to Africa and other parts of the world A quick introduction – my… Read more »
High capacity storage on the cheap
At one of my clients we manage a petabyte heirachical storage system (mixed offline tape storage, near-line cache storage and online disk storage) and several high capacity (e.g. 15TB) SAN enclosures. These devices are not cheap. However, all is not lost – there is a blog post from BackBlaze thats doing the rounds on the… Read more »
jQuery Tools that Rock
I’ve been doing quite a bit of web development these days and have found the jQuery library to be indispensible. Here are a few addons and samples that I found to be really useful: Image popups aka lightbox effects with fancy box Sliding panels for login screens etc by web-kreation.com Some really nice tips 5… Read more »
Beautiful Ubuntu themes for your desktop
Its easy to make ubuntu look beautiful. First add these PPA’s to your /etc/apt-sources.list: # nice themes deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main Then updated your apt database: sudo apt-get update Now install the themes: sudo apt-get install balanzan-theme infinity-theme \ wild-shine-theme exotic-theme tropical-theme \ step-into-freedom-theme bamboo-zen-theme \ ubuntu-sunrise-theme aquadreams-theme Afterwards use the… Read more »