June 2007 Archives

Hurm. Well, after spending a bit more time, i’ve also found OpenID plugin’s for MovableType, both consumer (for logging in to leave comments) and server. Unfortunately, i can’t seem to get the server to work. So, for now i’m using the claimID service.

However, and more to the point, none of this solves my original problem, which was a lack of a shared address book. Its still looking like i’m going to have to get some kind of groupware setup and running - Kolab or one of its ilk. I said that “i want something more” in my previous post - well, i actually don’t. Sure, it would be great to live in the world of distributed everything, but i really just want this shit to work. I loose sight of that some times.

So, off i go to google to figure out how to get this server working on Ubuntu. (Note to self: create a testing box before trying to get this working on your production server)

I’ll let you know how it goes.

Just a quick plug for this great form validator i found today - TMT Validator. It is flexible, easy to use, extensible, CSS aware, plays nice with XHTML and has documentation. I’ve tried quite a few up till now, and most kind of, well, suck. This one doesn’t.

I was about to have a bit of a freakout over the fact that there is no easy way to do nice distributed identity sharing. Sure, i could go with Kolab on the server for Ciara and I to share an address book, but really, i want something more. Something more distributed, less centeralized. And i couldn’t find anything, at first. Then i found out that OpenID 2.0 is going to support this kind of thing. Excellent! However, there doesn’t seem to be a server package for Ubuntu (my server os of choice). Bummer. But!! There is a python library which is integrated into Django. Cool! Still, not as easy as simply apt-get-ing a .deb file… Sigh. I guess i could go with ClaimID, an OpenID provider, but i really want to run the server myself. Just paranoid that way (which is why i didn’t sign up with Plaxo or any other address sharing social site). Ahh I just found phpMyID, which is a super nice light OpenID Identity provider. Cool!

Ok, so we’ve bought a new house and sold our old one. That makes three weeks of hell sound so small. Who knew that you could fix your house up in one week if you work like a deranged person? Who knew that you could jam most of your stuff into a 10x10x10 foot storage space? Who knew that you could pack all that stuff in one day?

Anyway, its done, its a huge stress off everyone here, and we are very happy with our new home. It is in the Runnymede and Annette neighbourhood, aka “The Junction”. We will be moving middle of July, and are very hopeful that Ciara won’t go into labour while moving. She isn’t due till the middle of August, but, well, you just never know with babies…