Nerd in the Basement

Installing Lazarus with Xcode 4

Posted on March 19th, 2012 by Alex Blackie
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Lazarus is a free, open-source IDE for Free Pascal. We’re using it in my IT class at school, so I installed it on my laptop. The only problem is: with XCode 4.3, some things have changed…

HTML5 Video

Posted on December 23rd, 2011 by Alex Blackie
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One of the biggest challenges of using HTML5 video is that you have to convert into at least two formats in order for it to be cross-browser compatible. It was this drawback alone that has kept me at bay in the past. Until I found this tool…

Designing for Your Audience

Posted on November 12th, 2011 by Alex Blackie
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If you’re going to run a website – whether that be a blog, podcast or anything else – you need to first think of your audience. The design has to be heavily researched before you build it; improper research can kill your site.

OSX to Ubuntu – Part 3: The End

Posted on October 21st, 2011 by Alex Blackie
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I’ve written two blog posts before this chronicling my move from OSX to Ubuntu. I got so far as to spec out a laptop and almost buy it. Luckily I didn’t, because it’s over. I’m back on OSX, and here’s why.

OSX to Ubuntu – Part 2

Posted on October 16th, 2011 by Alex Blackie
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It was only three days ago when I posted Part 1of this series, but a lot has changed since then. I have changed distros (slightly) and I have taken it a step up. I am now going 95% Linux.