http://www.bitstampede.com Bits on the rampage: Eric Shepherd's blog. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:49:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We now have the new version of MDC up and ready for experimenting with.A few things to note before I provide the URL:Changes made on the test server will not be ported back to the real database.The database installed on the test server is several weeks old.The help and certain ... http://www.bitstampede.com/2008/06/30/give-the-new-mdc-a-test-drive/ We continue to make gradual headway toward deploying the new MindTouch Deki based MDC. After some back and forth, we decided to go with a slightly revised version of the skin that doesn't attempt to customize the editor's toolbar. While we had hoped to have the custom toolbar ... http://www.bitstampede.com/2008/06/27/slow-but-steady-wins-the-race/ I'll definitely be attending WikiSym 2008 this September 8-10 in Portugal. I'm quite looking forward to it. It's the first time in a while that I've gone to a conference particularly focused to my areas of expertise and interest. I look forward to interacting with others whose ... http://www.bitstampede.com/2008/06/24/wikisym-2008/ We're about a week out from the end of the second quarter, and since my goal for this quarter (other than, you know, the Firefox 3 documentation -- that little thing) is to get the MDC upgrade rolled out, I'm hoping quite fervently that it will be done in that ... http://www.bitstampede.com/2008/06/24/mdc-goings-on/ In the past year, we've blown through four routers. They keep failing on us, usually right around the same time we have a cluster of outages with our cable modem service provider. Is it possible that the cable modem is somehow damaging the routers plugged into it? I have ... http://www.bitstampede.com/2008/06/20/is-it-possible/ This is totally awesome: http://www.bitstampede.com/2008/06/20/joy/ This is one of the things that makes the Mozilla community so cool. Dave Humphrey at Seneca has been working on creating the Mozilla Developer Resource Kit. This project will create a complete set of code, tools, documentation, and more to allow someone to get active in the ... http://www.bitstampede.com/2008/06/19/the-mozilla-developer-resource-kit/ I'm looking forward to putting to the test the things I learned while working on the Firefox 3 documentation as work begins on the developer documentation for Firefox 3.1.My first effort along those lines is that I'm going to try to keep the Firefox 3.1 for developers page organized from ... http://www.bitstampede.com/2008/06/19/getting-it-right-the-first-time/ Just got off the phone with AT&T. The reason I can't get DSL here is that they've already got customers using all the bandwidth they have at our CO. Epic fail. http://www.bitstampede.com/2008/06/19/dsl-fail/ As soon as Sarah gets off her currently ongoing phone call, I'm going to call AT&T and see if I can get DSL service here. Their web site tells me that I can't, but I have neighbors that have it, so I'm hoping that it's just a glitch in ... http://www.bitstampede.com/2008/06/19/ive-had-it/