Author Archives: Dennis

AIGLX, Compiz-Fusion, Gentoo, and my ATI Radeon 9600 Card with 8.42.3

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Dennis

Update: As of the last couple days (11/18/07), an ebuild has been added to portage for these drivers. It’s no longer necessary to create your own. So the Long Anticipated ATI drivers that support AIGLX are released. I’ve been wishing … Continue reading →

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The Recommended Tags Plugin

Posted on October 23, 2007 by Dennis

Since I upgraded to WordPress 2.3, The biggest thing I missed about my old Simple Tags Plugin was the auto-completion that happened for tags when I started typing them in on a post. I started missing that so much that … Continue reading →

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The perennially late Gentoo gnome-light ebuilds

Posted on October 23, 2007 by Dennis

If you run Gentoo Linux for your desktop, and you happen to favor the Gnome desktop environment, you may have noticed the incredible number of packages that need to be installed in order to install the gnome ebuild. The ability … Continue reading →

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YUI Image Uploader Example with TurboGears

Posted on October 22, 2007 by Dennis

After completing the YUI Image Uploader, I received a lot of requests for a working example. I didn’t originally create a working example, because that requires server functionality that this server didn’t have. I’ve remedied the situation and have completed … Continue reading →

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Similarity of texts: The Vector Space Model with Python

Posted on October 19, 2007 by Dennis

I’m working on a little task that compares the similarity of text documents. One of the most common methods of doing this is called the Vector Space Model. In short, you map words from the documents you want to compare … Continue reading →

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An Interview about MyDrawings.com

Posted on October 18, 2007 by Dennis

Scott and I were contacted by a group of MBA students studying Marketing Management at MGSM. They were asked to prepare a short presentation about a web 2.0 company and chose to present on MyDrawings.com. I thought others would be … Continue reading →

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