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!
02 February 2007
review
linux
How to
Firstly - YAFC? "What on earth is YAFC?" I hear you say. YAFC is a command line FTP tool which, unfortunately, only comes in source code which means you need to know how to compile it. Fortunately, compiling it is easy - it required very few dependencies and most of those I could install using yum on my linux box (Redhat Fedora).
27 January 2007
YADS
websites
music
Drupal
announcement
I've been working with a good friend on a website to promote his up and coming artist, Kasha and label, Vivid Imagery.
18 January 2007
websites
humour
geek
cool
My like for free icons probably stems from my passion for free quality stuff in general.
Earlier today, a colleague and friend (Janak Singh) of www.4urmobilephone.com introduced me to xkcd. This is a hand-drawn comic aimed at the geek community.
17 January 2007
websites
review
free
design
cool
I have a never ending quest to find good free stuff. Finding free stuff is easy - its the GOOD bit that stumps me…
Often I dont even mind paying for something if its quality, but obviously free is better!
Quality Icons are something I am always on the lookout for and I have been a member of Icon Buffet for a long time now — I'm a big fan of the free deliveries — and, although I've purchased a few packs (Oslo, Oslo Buzz and Soho), they are very expensive for a "bedroom programmer" such as myself.
16 January 2007
websites
humour
While Digging for fun, I found this site about unix jokes. I'm always up for a laugh!
15 January 2007
websites
Drupal
announcement
Drupal 5.0 is out!
Get yourself over to…
What a fantastic coincidence - releasing Drupal 5.0 on its 6th birthday... Its like it was planned or something!
14 January 2007
programming
games
free
Dark Basic Pro
cool
I just found this plugin (again) on The Games Creators Forum. Basically it adds new features to Dark Basic Pro. I'd used an older version of it but this one seems to have plenty more! Hopefully I'll put the project I'm using it for up soon - a resource management game
11 January 2007
websites
Drupal
announcement
Drupal RC2 Released!
The day of Drupal 5.0 is getting close and I personally cannot wait!
10 January 2007
websites
programming
humour
I found this site with loads of funny and appropriate (for any programmer or developer) quotes on it.
There are some absolutely fantastic quotes on it…
02 January 2007
programming
mysql
How to
Drupal
cool
Faced with a tedious task of ordering a set of rows using a weight column? Don't want to type the numbers out? Would rather find a difficult but more interesting method? I have the answer for you!