Monthly Archive for April, 2008

Open Source License Comparison

Published
by
Chris Meller
on April 28, 2008
in Incoherent Code, Legal and Links
. 1 Comment

I imagine many people have been confused with the differences between all the myriad open source licenses available. I did a quick Google, and found a very nice basic table listing some of the more popular licenses you might encounter and their key points.

Check out the comparison here, thanks to the KDE project.

The Open Source Initiative also includes a large index of licenses here, albeit comparison is left up to you.

New Kick-Ass Wallpapers

Published
by
Chris Meller
on April 21, 2008
in Cool, Coupons, Incoherent Code, Internet, Links and Plugins
. 1 Comment

I had the opportunity to do some quick WordPress plugin hacking tonight1 for Jim Whimpey. As a “payment” of sorts, he gave me a coupon code for the site he was working on: Panedia Desktop Wallpaper.

Being an Aussie company, obviously, most of their wallpapers are from Australia. Boy do they have some absolutely beautiful scenery down under. Check out the two I selected for my machines:

For my desktop, I got a huge 3200 x 1200 pixel version of Brisbane’s beautiful night skyline:

New Desktop Wallpaper

And for my MacBook Pro, I got a beautiful 1680 x 1050 pixel copy of the Robe Coastline:

New MBP Wallpaper

Stunning wallpapers. Totally worth $25/year to constantly get new beautiful scenes in this kind of quality. I also love the interface that auto-picks the best format for your OS and resolution. Very well done.

  1. I added an additional search option to the Search Everything plugin, enabling it to return all posts in a matching category. [back]