MacksMind

First, install these packages using apt-get or aptitude:

ruby
rubygems
ruby1.8-dev
build-essential
apache2-mpm-prefork
apache2-prefork-dev

If you’re like me, you’d like to know whether anyone is paying attention to what you have to say online. There are plugins for WordPress that will make this information available through the wp-admin pages. There are also tools such as AWStats that your hosting provider can likely provide. If you’ve outgrown those options, you [...]

Well, here it is my blog is only a week old and I’m already switching to a different engine on the back end. As I find my way around WordPress I’ll get the old content moved over.
My primary reason for moving is the apparent lack of full support for trackback in Typo.

I noted with some interest Douglass Karr’s post on Twitter as a search engine last month. I don’t have enough contacts to receive the benefits he describes, but I found another raison d’etre for Twitter this morning. While drinking coffee and contemplating the best use of the hour before my kids awake, Something gently picked [...]

I decided my to use Typo for my new blog, but I wasn’t satisfied to install it in the usual way because I want multiple blogs. This is also my first hands-on experience with mod_rails, so it’s a nice opportunity to play.

The following instructions work for Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy gibbon), and I’m assuming some level of familiarity with Ubuntu and/or Debian. Same ideas should apply elsewhere though (YMMV). If I’ve glossed over too much, leave a comment and I’ll try to clarify.