I’m working on a plan on my other site for converting PHP-Fusion sites to WordPress. PHP-Fusion is a “content management system” (CMS), in which the website can be built almost entirely using a web-browser, and users/authors can update the site with minimal technical skills. The full plan and reasons for converting from PHP-Fusion are listed in two blogs on that ... Read More »
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Google Reveals Stats in “Amicus Curiae” Brief
Google recently filed an “amicus curiae” brief in a New York federal court case where EMI (record label) is suing MP3tunes. An amicus curiae is someone, not a party to a case, who volunteers to offer information to assist a court in deciding a matter before it. The information provided may be a legal opinion in the form of an ... Read More »
My First OpenSource Project & My Beef With Other OpenSource Projects
My first open source project that I completed this past weekend was a Python program that helps convert notes from one platform to another (see previous post for details). It is only 212 lines of code. It probably took 4 hours to totally test it and to use it for my own personal use of transfer 800 notes from one ... Read More »
Converting Phatnotes to Evernote
Over the weekend, I convert over 800 notes from Phatnotes to Evernote. I originally used Phatnotes (from a company called Phatware) to sync notes from my PC to my old windows-mobile phone. When I switched to Blackberry, I gave up and did without the notes on my phone. But now that I have an Android phone, I decided to give ... Read More »