Thingy Ma Jig is the blog of Nicholas Thompson and contains any useful tips, sites and general blog-stuff which are considered interesting or handy!
23 April 2007
websites
miscellaneous
free
cool
A friend sent me a link to one of those optical illusion thingies. I'm often very sceptical of them however upon inspection, this one seemed different and legitimate. I don't think its fake - but I equally don't understand why its screws with your eye's so much! Here are the instructions from the website…
23 April 2007
miscellaneous
Sitting in work on a Monday morning and I just received a call on my mobile phone from an unknown number: 0701 2183144. I didn't get to answer it as they hung up before my ringtone even had a chance to kick in - not that I would have answered that anyway…
12 April 2007
programming
Drupal
announcement
Google announced today that it will be sponsoring 20 - yes twenty - projects for its Google Summer of Code program this year. From what I've seen, Drupal is one of the top "winners" if you use project quantity as a metric, with only Apache and KDE beating us (I couldn't see any others with any more at a glance). We got more than Joomla, PHP & The Mozilla Foundation and I believe this is a real achievement.
I'm also thrilled that Konstantin Käfer and I am mentoring one of the projects this year - the Taxonomy Manager.
08 April 2007
websites
video
geek
cool
After looking through the list of mentors for this years Google Summer of Code I noticed that I have been paired up with a fellow Drupal-eer called kkafer for the project we chose to mentor (I'm probably not allowed to publicly say yet, so I wont). Anywho - in a quest to find out a little more about this 'German gentleman' I decided to pop over to his Blog and, while having a little read through, I found that he'd bloged about this YouTube video regarding the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0.
05 April 2007
YADS
websites
review
n73
free
Drupal
cool
mobile phone
Need themes for Nokia N73? Download Nokia N73 Themes for free for your Nokia N73 handset.
I found this site while looking around the net. I am considering getting a Nokia N73 and I wanted to know what resources were out there. Then I found this site…
30 March 2007
YADS
websites
Drupal
announcement
It's taken me long enough to get around to, but finally Thingy Ma Jig has been upgraded to the latest and greatest in all things Drupal.
All in all, I'd say it was a fairly (and surprisingly) painless experience. There were a few minor glitches along the way though…
Well I'm back home - fortunately my flight was better leaving the US than it was entering. I only managed to snap 7 photo's, however I've had them on Flickr almost as soon as I'd taken them. I've also now created a Flickr group which is completely public and free to join. Please add your photo's to this pool!
23 March 2007
photos
Drupal
Days Out
Well - It took us 10 hours longer than it should have done to get to the US - but the first day of the OSCMS (Open Source Content Management System) Summit 2007 sponsored by Yahoo! is over. What a day its been!
Well Day 2 is starting soon. Lets see what this beautiful new day brings!
I'm really torn about what talks to do today. The first scheduled talks are really clashing! I want go to both the Drupal Lightning and the Drupal Profiles talk. After that, I think the Yahoo Pipes session sounds interesting. Then I'm torn between the FormsAPI talk and the Date + Calander talk.
Well thats it - this year's DrupalCon hosted by Yahoo! at their Open Source CMS Summit 2007 is over. Winding up the conference are the Lullabot guy's doing their podcast.