Storage Service: publish once, distribute everywhere
You should be able to take your content with you when you leave Facebook, Twitter, etc. and share it in the new app-of-the-moment. Dave Winer has been on this kick about a "storage service" Break…
Ted Bergeron
Preserving Content
I attended the Scripting News meetup in Portland on Friday and got a chance to meet Dave Winer. The topic of preserving content came up which is a very important to me. How can we…
How to build a website with Asciidoctor
Take a look at this demo of website I made only using Asciidoctor and with one command. http://tedbergeron.github.io/SiteMadeWithAsciidoctor/ How To Start by downloading the files in my GitHub Repository. Edit the…
Shifting Priorities, Pick One
Often during times of extreme workloads this little project management technique can work wonders for your dev team that is faced with too many project deadlines or too much scope creep. Try using this script…
Local AsciiDoc Website
In my last post I briefly mentioned how you could make a local website out of your docs using only A text editor, like Notepad A browser extension in Chrome Asciidoctor.js Live Preview And…
Atom Editor for AsciiDoc
Why AsciiDoc? I’ve used Markdown for years but last year I heard about AsciiDoc at Write The Docs 2014 conference. Then I quickly discovered Asciidoctor and I’ve never looked back. AsciiDoc…
The future of apps
To me the future is where you can develop web apps that access native features of the devices. You host it as a website because it is your website that just happens to be responsive.…
We've all been warned
about building a house upon the sand. Software is like Sandcastles Software is basically building a sandcastle. With each turn of the tide, you’ll have shore up some walls and strengthen the foundation. Often…
Turn KDE Trackpad Off
I use Slackware Linux on a DELL D630 laptop. I never use a mouse and I rely on the trackpad for all my mousing needs. I was trying to adjust the brightness. DELL uses the…
Dell Numlock
I figured out that to use the NumLock you have to turn it on, And then press and hold the Function (Fn) key in order to use the number pad on the keyboard. I have…