Alex Coles Portfolio

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uknews/england/westmidlands/7560392.stm

Birmingham + skyline.

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Thanks to GitHub’s API, there are definite possibilities for integrating Trac with GitHub. However, for right now the simplest way is to just provide a link. Thanks to customizable navigation introduced in Trac 0.11, this should now be really simple.

If you’re using the web Administration screen, click through to Manage Plugins and from there, ensure trac.versioncontrol.webui.* modules are deselected, with the exception of the BrowserModule ( trac.versioncontrol.webui.browser). You can also enable/disable the appropriate plugins by editing your trac.ini file.

Then you’ll need to remap the browser module link to GitHub. This time, this must be done by directly editing your trac.ini file. Open trac.ini in your favourite Editor and add the following section, if it does not already exist:

[mainnav]

and then the following line, changing the URL to match that of your GitHub project:

browser.href = http://github.com/myabc/github-trac/tree/master

And that should be it!

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http://www.americans-away-from-home.com/

A website written by an American expat following the course of the U.S. Presidential Primaries.

http://harpers.org/media/slideshow/annot/2008-03/index.html

There is an great feature in this month’s Harper’s Magazine on Google’s Data Centre plans for a small community on the banks of the Columbia River in Oregon. I think its really easy to see technology as something invisible: after all, thats why Google searches, Gmail and YouTube are so popular.

But this technology is not really invisible. It needs power. The brain power is more apparent: Google is actively expanding and a huge number of “star engineers” have joined its ranks. The less apparent, oft-neglected power is electricity.

While it may be out-of-sight (and off-site) for most of us, its dangerous for us to let this important fact slip out-of-mind. The immense power that Google affords us relies on huge amounts of processing power, and in turn, huge amounts of electricity. The article is quite right to point out that Google has now become a heavy industry of the 21st century.

While I don’t know whether its more efficient, in terms of power consumption, for individuals, small business and communities to do things themselves (such as running email servers, etc.), or for everything to be consolidated into Google’s huge farms of servers, I do know that it is important not to not consider the efficiency and environmental record of this new heavy industry.

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