Month: October 2005

Microsoft Windows celebrates its 20th birthday this week. I’d post something really acerbic, but I’m sitting at a Windows 2000 workstation; my laptop at home (on which 90% of the Elgg code was written) runs Windows XP. I have a desktop that dual boots Windows 2000 and Mandrake Linux, but I’m going to be honest: […]

It’s an open secret that I was inspired to write the first draft for Elgg (we’ll call it version 0.001) after experiences supporting and programming for one of the closed-source virtual learning environments. I felt, and still feel, that it is unfair for universities to be locked into expensive contracts for software they cannot alter […]

A full 5% of Elgg.net traffic is from Bloglines. I find that amazing for several reasons. First of all, it’s great that people are using the RSS to that extent. Elgg.net got 1.2 million hits in August, so 5% isn’t peanuts – and at the same time no other RSS reader shows up in the […]

Google Reader: an RSS aggregator done Gmail-style. Buggy as hell, but possibly worth keeping an eye on.