Category Archives: Technology

Adding Readability to Google Reader’s Send To Menu

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Robert Wallace

I usually spend most of my time on the internet going through my RSS feeds on Google Reader. Reader has a great feature called Send to at the bottom of each post which allows you to send the current article … Continue reading →

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Send the web to your Kindle with Readability.com

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Robert Wallace

Since I got my Kindle (Kindle 3) I’ve been using Readability to send articles and post from the sites I frequent over to my kindle. Readability is a great product similar to Instapaper and Read it Later, but it adds … Continue reading →

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Time Warp Feb 2006

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Robert Wallace

While cleaning out some boxes in the closet I came across and issue of CPU (Computer Power User) from February 2006. I really don’t think about it much, but 5+ year in the tech world is a very long time. … Continue reading →

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The Boxed Mono of Doom

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Robert Wallace

Few important announcements today in the Open Source world. I’m pretty exited by all of them and feel like I need to start doing more code for fun and not just code for work. First, Zenimax the company that acquired … Continue reading →

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Installing Rails with RVM

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Robert Wallace

In this article I will describe the steps I used in order to get a Rails environment up and running under Linux using RVM (I’m using Fedora 15). I will assume you know your way around Linux and you should … Continue reading →

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Linux Kernel 3.0 is on it way

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Robert Wallace

Linus Torvalds has officially announced that the new Linux Kernel will have a version of 3.0 and not 2.8. The release is expected around the 20 year mark for the kernel. So what are the big changes? NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. … Continue reading →

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MediaWiki authentication with Active Directory

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Robert Wallace

In order to centralize documentation and provide a way for everybody involved in a project to contribute to the documentation effort for any given project I’ve decided to implement MediaWiki. For this to be a success and actually have people … Continue reading →

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