Code and Whatnot

The last six weeks have been pretty insane! I will stay relatively cryptic about the details, but, as my friends already know, I have changed jobs twice in that time period. The job for which I left HUGE seemed like a great opportunity, but I found myself highly uncomfortable in the position. […]

Back in November, Family Travel relaunched with a ton of new content, a completely new look & feel, and great Google Maps integration.
I’m the dummy who told the client that animated markers and infoboxes would be OK, and I’m the dummy who had to code it (the javascript) in under two months, by myself. […]

This post is mostly for my own benefit, and may be edited in the future. Since I’m a shell guy stuck (at least for now) in a Windows world, I find myself installing Cygwin on machines on a regular basis. I still don’t really understand how anyone gets anything done on Windows machines…
Digression: […]

Using Yahoo Pipes, I’ve combined my blog, my Google Reader ’shared’ items, and my del.icio.us ’share’ tag into a single RSS feed:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=0Pj34kFB3BGbj9QKJxOy0Q&_render=rss (rss | html)
I don’t always write in this blog as frequently as I’d like, but I read quite a bit each day to keep up with the latest in web development and the […]

As of last week I was getting pretty tired of my laptop’s inability to suspend to RAM in Ubuntu Feisty 7.04. The ati driver that comes with Ubuntu didn’t work at all on my machine, and the fglrx driver package (the non-free driver from ATI), while it did work, caused the machine to freeze […]

I tested Drupal and Joomla! to see how easily I could set up a CMS that had basic site & content control, image galleries, video content, blogs, and a calendar of events.
The winner: Drupal
The installation was quite painless. Finding and installing modules was also a breeze. I haven’t yet had time to screw […]

I just got an Asus V6Va. It’s a handsome laptop. The screen is just about the best laptop screen I’ve ever seen. A glossy-but-low-glare, 1400×1050 pixel, 15″ screen on a low-profile, lightweight chassis.
If you know me at all you know I didn’t have much use for the included Windows XP […]

One day Rhapsody stopped working in Ubuntu on my work machine. It didn’t stop working on my home Ubuntu machine, which runs the same version. I thought something I did installing non-packaged software like the JRE and Flash caused it to stop working. At the time I couldn’t find any information by […]

Never before have I seen a group of programmers get so much done in so little time. Being a part of it has been really awesome. Eight programmers and several other people worked straight through the weekend, putting in some ridiculously long days, in order to complete the new OnForce web site/application. […]

Recently assigned to fix a bug that only happened in a Mac browser, I decided to attempt remote desktop control rather than sit on the lap of the guy whose desk happens to have the testing Mac. The Mac Remote Desktop server resembles, but ultimately is not compatible with, the VNC that is used […]