Jorge G. Mare's blog

What can you do with Haiku?

Blog post by Jorge G. Mare on Tue, 01/05/2010 - 18:41

Avid Haiku community member Carlos Mario Cataño from Colombia, known to many of us in the community by his nickname Skar Cat, has an interesting blog post about his experiences with Haiku. Written exclusively from an end user point of view (Carlos is not a developer), his post is not an in-depth review, but rather a personal recount that may answer some of the questions that people contemplating the use of Haiku for the first time may have about this still in early development OS. I found it to be an enjoyable and informative reading, so I decided to publish a loosely translated English version of the post, of course with the author's permission. A couple of mandatory screenshots are also included. Enjoy!

Adding Real Name Support to HaikuZone

Blog post by Jorge G. Mare on Sat, 12/19/2009 - 13:48

In addition to the username used to login to HaikuZone, users can also add their real name to their profile. However, when the author name of a post or comment is displayed, the (out of the box) default is to show the usually shorter and more cryptic username instead of the real name. That has now changed: HaikuZone users can now opt to enter their real name in their user profile and have it displayed throughout the system. To enable this feature, I have installed Drupal's Real Name Module:

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