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  • Intranet Content Management Systems

    Last year I moved the work intranet from a static web site built with Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage and running on a Windows IIS server to Drupal and hosted on a UNIX/Apache server. The intranet consists primarily of documentation, which is fairly static content, and news and event listings, which are constantly updated. The…

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  • PHP WebDAV

    I’m playing around with the PEAR HTTP_WebDAV_Server package without much luck. Documentation is very poor and the Filesystem.php example displays okay in a web browser, but does not appear to be a WebDAV drive to clients such as Microsoft Web Folders and Konqueror. The follwoing resources may be of some use: HTTP_WebDAV_Server Filesystem.php sample usage…

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  • Home, hotel, office

    It’s the weekend, it’s hot and humid and I have work to do. In some ways I don’t mind spending a weekend developing web applications, but it is very difficult to concentrate when the air is so warm and sticky. Like a silicon chip, my mind runs so slowly in this weather, in contrast to…

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  • Seaside dreams and universities

    I dreamt last night of visiting a seaside township and wandering around. In my dream the township was called Kurnell,though it was nothing like the peninsula Sydney suburb of that name. It did have waterworks, rusted pipelines, harking back to the controversial and cancelled desalination project to be located at Kurnell. The real Kurnell is…

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  • Best places to visit in Japan

    What are your favourite places to visit in Japan? Know where to get the best bento boxes or bowls of ramen? Which shops sell the best looking computers and clothes? Had any special Japanese experiences that you want to share? Here’s the place to share them!

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  • Best places to visit in China

    What are your special places to visit in China? What difficulties have you run into while visiting the world’s third largest country? What were your special experiences?

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