http://nerdica.com Software is Superficial Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:02:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After perusing the web, who knew there would be comic books with an informative message? Here's some I found interesting: Why's (Poignant) Guide to RubyThis comic is written by an active developer of ruby who goes by the name "why the lucky stiff." It's a primer in Ruby accompanied by comics ... http://nerdica.com/?p=58 A friend of mine, Daniel McNicoll, just finished directing a film with Galatia Films. In this film, they interview legendary Sword Master Bob Anderson preformed and choreographed all the Lightsaber duels for the original Star Wars trilogy. Both he and skilled martial artists along with the highly accomplished Viggo Mortensen ... http://nerdica.com/?p=57 I'm currently working on a Digg app for Android for school. Once I get a real beta ready, I'll post more, but until then you can check out my progress at http://people.clemson.edu/~squire2/418/. http://nerdica.com/?p=55 Over the past week since Automatous' initial release, many bugs have been squashed and features have been tweaked. Here's a current update for things that are new to Automatous. New Additions "Invite Friends" Page Added a fews days ago, the ubiquitous "Invite Friends" option found in many Facebook applications has been added to ... http://nerdica.com/?p=54 After several weeks of development, I have finally opened up the Facebook application I've been working on. It's called the Automatous Facebook Status Updater. It's an application that allows you to schedule how and when your Facebook status changes. Here's a few screenshots of Automatous in action. Adding a New Update New ... http://nerdica.com/?p=49 While browsing the net, I started reading the "Code of Conduct" pages for several Linux distributions. It's interesting to see exactly why a distribution was created and what drives developers to contribute to them. Here's a short list, and feel free to post comments with links to other distros to ... http://nerdica.com/?p=48 So, if you've been trying to visit Nerdica.com (ahhh, old posts) for the past couple hours, you'll notice that it's been down. I've currently just switched to Dreamhost, and I'm liking it so far. The main reason I switched is because my previous host, 1&1, was slow. Some of my ... http://nerdica.com/?p=47 After browsing the web to find other people looking in random places for help, I've decided to add a forums feature to the site. If you ever have trouble, or would like to discuss Nerdica.com, feel free to do so on the brand new forums at http://nerdica.com/forums. http://nerdica.com/?p=46 Introduction Wanna know what really goes into just adding that simple extra line in "sources.list" for your favorite Ubuntu repositories? Well, in this article, I'll be detailing some of the work I do while maintaining the CLUG Ubuntu software repository. Listed here will be the basics of how to set up ... http://nerdica.com/?p=43 When one of my friends came up to Clemson this summer, he brought a belated birthday gift. At first, I thought it was some sort of notebook. When I realized what it was, I nearly died laughing. He said his dad found it in storage, and gave it to him. ... http://nerdica.com/?p=40