Mindstab.net

I’ve been thinknig about it a little now on and off for about half a year. We have billions of command line text editors, but no command line spread sheet packages. I sort of passed it off as a crazy idea, but then I saw this:

Quatro Pro running under dos box care of planet KDE thanks to the april fools planet gnome and planet kde reverse.

And it reminded me of the good old days of dos. There totally were command line spread sheet packages. Now I really either want to find one for linux, or try my hand at writing a simple one. Spread sheets are handy, and if I could ssh to my home box and work on them as well as all text and code, it’d be that much cooler.

Well, I decided I really want to go ahead with mpm peruser (child of mpm child and sibling(/child?) of mpm mutex) for security reasons, and so I created a second instance of apache that users mpm prefork to handle ssl all by itself. This will work for the interum I think.

Now I’m starting to learn about wordpress theme hacking. I suspect I’ll be setting up several instances of it in the not so distant future so had I better be good at customizing it soon.

Then onto probably wordpress plugin hacking so I can make one big wordpress/gallery site for myself. Unless I need something else for code holding. Haven’t decided quite yet.

As for projects I’m thinking about working on:

• VM 2: The remake
  A new ideally better and faster version of my first toy VM I wrote last fall.
• Shitty physics toys:
  I want to grab some simple equipment and putter about with it, insipered by my physics class. Ideally I ‘d like to build some kind of solinoid magnetic accelerator thingy ala a tiny railgun
• Presence stuff:
  Carrying part of your online presense on a usb stick and having a central online site with the rest of it. Thebon might be interested in this for his ‘learn everything you didn’t want to know about me’ project. ;)
• Verious wordpress related things:
  A proper working spell check plugin for instance ;). Also, look at LJ interoperability. Those are two biggies. Also, investigate wheather wordpress is suitable for hosting other non new content via it’s pages like hosting pagelets on various projects I’m running + code, or for SpaZ, hosting music.
• Hacking on Tomboy:
  I want to see if I can add html export to Tomboy, because it would be cool.

Well, the hosting side of this operation seems to be taking form. biz.mindstab.net is up and running. I may have borrowed a few pieces… But yeah. Go forth and purchase web space! From me…

I’m really pleased with how well the site turned out. It’s coded in sweet and simple xhtml 1.0 strict. And CSS. 100% valid all of it. It rocks. And I was pleasantly surprised that I only had to make one fix when porting it to IE from Firebox. Apparently in IE things like unordered lists and ordered lists can’t have margins. Who knows why not. Didn’t matter. I just moved the margin to the list items them selves, and volia. Perfect site in Firefox and IE. Yeah for standards that keep it simple and yet flexible. I find there’s something quite alluring about nice crisp looking simplicity in a site.

Also, I created the image myself. It’s mix of the results from google image searching for water and neurons. Apply a few Gimp filters, and volia, a logo. I think it adds a nice splash of color to the page. :)

Welcome to the new mindstab.net. It’s got a long ways to go, but I’m starting to get dug in. The server is up and preforming well. I still have some issues to work out, but I can now start focusing more of my attention on developing for the web, rather than configuring servers. I’m reasonably impressed with wordpress, so here is my wordpress blog. It also seems decently extensible so I might just end up writing a plugin or two for it as time goes on.