http://www.theopensurgery.com ...with Jason Dugmore Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:21:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, if you have read my last post you would know that I'm not a great fan of the new Facebook. It is plagued with bugs some of which I have reported. Today I got the following email from the Facebook support team: Hi, We appreciate your feedback about the new site ... http://www.theopensurgery.com/29/letter-from-facebook-support/ Being a web surfer you would most likely be familiar with Google’s social network Orkurt. It’s similar to most of the other social networks, in that you make friends and manage your relationships between these friends. Orkurt has been reasonably successful with its majority of users coming from Brazil ... http://www.theopensurgery.com/28/google%e2%80%99s-other-social-network/ Well I'm sure most of us can say that this has been one hectic year, unfortunately it has been so hectic for me that I have had to neglect TheOpenSurgery. But I'm back now! And I hope to get the ball rolling once again. I am going to be making a ... http://www.theopensurgery.com/26/im-back/ Did the upgrade to Wordpress 2.6. Everything went smoothly :D there seems to be some nice changes in the admin. Thanks Wordpress people! http://www.theopensurgery.com/22/now-running-wordpress-26/ So last month my ADSL router got stuck by lightning, the third time in six months! So I have been limited to a measly 1GB cap on 3G until I get a replacement router and until Telkom comes and repairs the fault on that line. I then felt the sudden ... http://www.theopensurgery.com/26/rant-so-i-had-to-pay-for-ubuntu-804/ The download day was supposed to start at yesterday at 19:00. There was a delay of about an hour and a half but everything is going well now. The total amount of downloads in getting closer to the four million mark and I think the target of five million downloads ... http://www.theopensurgery.com/18/firefox-download-day-is-going-strong/ Hi, Thought I’d write an update on my ChinesePod experience. Well, it has been as about a month now and I have done around 30 lessons. I have been through lessons on various topics such as colours, ordering food, counting, directions and many more. I must say that I am really ... http://www.theopensurgery.com/16/chinesepod-an-update/ I am sure most readers will be well aware of what CSS is and have a great knowledge of how it works. So for that reason I will not go into any explanations of how it works, if you are a beginner I encourage you to google for some beginner ... http://www.theopensurgery.com/14/css-creating-a-good-starting-template/ I have been looking at learning how to use a PHP framework for some time now. There are many of them, which can be found here: http://phpframeworks.com . I have chosen CodeIgniter as my first framework to learn as it was recommended by peers and its features seemed to be ... http://www.theopensurgery.com/12/codeigniter-my-first-look/ I think its so funny how something as simple as an office chair can make you day enjoyable, are these boring times? No I don’t think so. Its just something about that comfy ‘just right’ feeling that a good office chair can give you. These ones we got are nothing ... http://www.theopensurgery.com/16/so-we-got-these-new-office-chairs%e2%80%a6/