Disqus - Latest Comments for Martin Atkins

Re: an open letter to Gallery and Flickr

Martin Atkins — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:31:31 -0000

Fotobilder, which powers LJ's Scrapbook service, is one possibility. I'm not entirely convinced that I can recommend it for your purposes, but you may wish to have a look. The main issue with it is that it uses mod_perl, which I'd guess you probably don't already have set up and I certainly wouldn't want to install it just to run an image gallery.

Re: Where’s Jim/Daniel/Daniel James/That Hot Guy?

Martin Atkins — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:03:58 -0000

Regarding what you've said about LiveJournal, those friends of yours who don't want to get a full LiveJournal account and its associated "yet another password" could use their Yahoo!, AOL, Flickr, or likely some other account to log in to LiveJournal via OpenID. Once they've logged in once and their account has been "vivified" you can add them as a friend just like any local LiveJournal user, and they can read your friends only entries from your recent entries page.

Re: Disqus and OpenID

Martin Atkins — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:18:37 -0000

I got that same error. The signup form just seems to be completely broken.

Re: help: portable, internet capable devices

Martin Atkins — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:45:37 -0000

I've been considering an EeePC, but ASUS has said that a newer model with a higher-resolution screen is on the horizon, so I've been holding out for that. Hopefully they'll add bluetooth as well; it seems like a bit of an omission for a portable computer.

Re: Portable Ubuntu Problems

Martin Atkins — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:51:19 -0000

When you say "it doesn't work", what exactly is happening? Is grub giving some sort of error?

Re: Portable Ubuntu: working!

Martin Atkins — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:11:19 -0000

Nice to hear that you got it working.

Did you consider putting the bootloader and kernel in a separate FAT16 partition and just having the rest of the system on a normal ext3 partition? That way, you can mount the FAT16 partition at /boot and allow kernel upgrades to be done as normal.

Your approach makes me nervous because the filesystem contents are going to change dramatically at some point in the boot process. I guess it's not a major problem in practice -- filesystems get mounted pretty early on during boot -- but it's just another thing you have to be weary of when installing/configuring software.

Re: Episode 25: "An 'Open' Letter to the Obama Administration"

Martin Atkins — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:28:24 -0000

In the UK there's an organisation called MySociety that pulls government-related stuff onto the web in a variety of ways:

http://theyworkforyou.com/ - Tracks discussions in Parliament
http://fixmystreet.com/ - Routes requests to the correct contacts in government based on location and request type
http://writetothem.com/ - Write to representatives
http://planningalerts.com/ - Email notifications for local requests for planning permission
...

These aren't run by the government itself, but use data made available by the government.

Re: "We're Back, with Open Stack Bingo!"

Martin Atkins — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:31:06 -0000

The enclosure on this entry is pointing at an error page.

Re: Superfeedr Blog : Real-time cloudy thoughts from a super-hero

Martin Atkins — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:37:00 -0000

Another option:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss" href="..." />

If your app sees two mutually-alternate feeds, it's probably a safe bet to poll only one.

Re: OpenID, baby!

Martin Atkins — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:34:07 -0000

It's actually pretty easy to create bridges between OpenID and other browser-based auth technologies. See my blog entry on the subject for a quick summary of how it works:
http://www.apparently.me.uk/2767.html

My take on it is a proxy that allows you to another auth provider as an OpenID IdP via the proxy, but I imagine you could probably do it the other way too if you want, depending on the flexibility of the other protocol.