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. […]

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 went in place of my boss on Friday to a Salesforce.com seminar regarding their web services, composite framework, and Apex Code product perks. Apex Code is their version of stored procedures that are written by the (advanced) user and run on the Salesforce server side in response to data-related events. That means […]

I hardly even know what anti-aliasing is. But the anti-aliasing in Ubuntu 6.10, unless I’ve gone mad, is really nice. There is some intangible quality in the text that makes everything really easy to read.
Firefox 2 (which comes with the upgrade) is also awesome. I always wanted little X’s on […]

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 […]

For me, on Mozilla, the current incarnation of Y!MB is working a lot faster than the first incarnation. I originally tried Beta for about an hour and decided it was just too slow to use. Now, I think I like it more than the old Yahoo! Mail. The only problem I currently […]

I’ve definitely wasted time in that past using the FTP client to start a session, change dirs, and upload files.

When work gets crazy, the blog suffers. It’s a bummer, too, because I also learn more that I *should* write down when work is crazy.
Ubuntu
A week and a half ago, I installed Ubuntu on my desktop, wiping out Debian. Ubuntu installs like a dream. I made sure to plug in all available […]