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Month: October, 2011

Getting the Compaq nx6125 Broadcom Wireless card to work in Ubuntu 11.10

I remember trying to get Ubuntu to work on my Compaq nx6125 my freshman year of college. The first and biggest hurdle was getting the wireless card to work. Recently, after a few OS changes, I decided to go back to Ubuntu for that machine. Imagine my dismay when I discovered the documentation on the [...]

Building Opa in 32-bit Ubuntu 11.10

Heard of Opa? It’s a full web app stack by MLstate. It focuses allowing developers to create highly scalable, highly interactive, rich web applications as easily as possible.

Here’s “Hello World” in Opa:
server = Server.one_page_server("Hello", ( -> <>Hello web))

And here’s a chat room in 20 ELOC:

import stdlib.themes.bootstrap

type message = {author: string /**The name of the author (arbitrary string)*/
; text: string /**Content entered by the user*/}