The Irish Penguin » Self-centred http://www.theirishpenguin.com Watching Open Source unfold across Ireland Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:53:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Viva Le Gaelic Penguin! http://www.theirishpenguin.com/2007/06/09/viva-le-gaelic-penguin/ http://www.theirishpenguin.com/2007/06/09/viva-le-gaelic-penguin/#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:56:53 +0000 theirishpenguin http://www.theirishpenguin.com/2007/06/09/viva-le-gaelic-penguin/ Phew! After much fiddling and tweaking I finally managed to get my header image together for this site. All the while I had the song “The Irish Rover” bouncing round in my head – which probably didn’t help matters!

But I think the above header was worth it. Veronica, my glamorous girlfriend and graphic design mentor, didn’t like it much to start with. At least I managed to pacify her by throwing in a cute penguin pic, which I did up in the absolutely fabulous Inkscape. Inkscape has to be one of the best Free Software programs ever. It’s just so easy to use and yet things just always turn out good. It’s magic. And that’s just the kind of thing you’ll be hearing more about on this blog over the coming months along with other news and discussion from the filthy dirty world of Open Source.

Just a heads up for anyone trying to change their WordPress header image – make sure that you haven’t changed the header’s colours or anything previously in WordPress. If you have made changes then you should revert them – which can be done from the dashboard. Otherwise all the image uploading and CSS styling in the world won’t be enough to get that flamin’ header to change! Now there’s an hour of my life that I won’t get back! At least I had The Irish Rover playing away in the back of my head to keep me going…

Doo do doo…

]]> http://www.theirishpenguin.com/2007/06/09/viva-le-gaelic-penguin/feed/ 5 Slaps on the Backs All Round http://www.theirishpenguin.com/2007/03/11/slaps-on-the-backs-all-round/ http://www.theirishpenguin.com/2007/03/11/slaps-on-the-backs-all-round/#comments Sun, 11 Mar 2007 10:04:34 +0000 theirishpenguin http://localhost/blog/wordpress/?p=12 A big congratulations goes to Sun Microsystems, who have finally open sourced Java – under the GPL, if you don’t mind. This is the move that will finally stop me criticising them so I’ll shut up now. In addition, they’ve very kindly given me permission to use their Joint Copyright Agreement for my Frogface project (just thought I’d plug that one again!) which is ticking along nicely on www.sourceforge.net/projects/frogface

Man of the moment is Ganesh, who’s managed to submit the first non-me patch to the Frogface codebase and, along with all the other Frogface developers, has demonstrated great patience as the project gets up on its feet!

Finally, a big shout goes out to Vee who’s working her little socks off studying at the moment. All she’s missing is the hang’n'cheese sandwiches to complete the student lifestyle – mainly cause she doesn’t have the time to make them!!!

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