I’ve just finished upgrading to WordPress 2.0.1 on Debian. The upgrade itself went very smoothly and my overall first 10 minutes impression is positive. It may take me a little while to get use to the WYSIWYG editor, but I seem to recall you can turn it off and there is an html editor as […]
Over the weekend I took a Celeron 400, with a 2G drive, that I had laying around and installed Smoothwall on it. I’m not sure I really needed a dedicated firewall box at home, but I’m a geek and technical overkill is what we do. Anyway, there was really nothing to it. The installation was […]
Ok, will someone please sell me a Mac!? I’d like a 15″ Powerbook (Combo Drive) with an extra 1/2 G of RAM running OS X 10.4. If you have one that works, please let me know because I can’t seem to get a hold of one. If you want to hear a bizarre story of […]
Ok, now that I’ve got your attention, let me just say this. I’m not a millionaire, so I have no idea how to become one for sure. I do, however, have a theory on how to become a millionaire and I’m trying it out as we speak. Before I divulge this theory, let me just […]
I continue to be impressed with the speed of web app development with Rails. I decided to write another simple web app to play around some more with Rails and see exactly how fast I could do it. I developed a simple status report tool, which is kind of similar to the comment form processor […]
Oh yeah, could you add a timestamp to that app so we know when the row was added? Sure… “ALTER TABLE blah ADD COLUMN created_on timestamp(14);” Done…(and I mean _completely_ done). Wow. Nice.
Maybe “Bye Bye Java” is a little extreme, but it got your attention I bet. Especially if you know how much Java I’ve done in the past, both professionally and in my spare time. So what could possibly make me give up Java? Well there were really only two places where I was doing much […]
I’ve added two plugins to the blog for fun and profit. WeatherIcon 2.0 and McMike’s Random Quote can be see in the sidebar. I’m impressed with WordPress’ plugin system. It only took a couple minutes to get these plugins working and not only do you get the plugin output on the public pages, but they […]
I’ve been playing around with and contributing a few patches to Flyspray. Flyspray is a simple bug tracker written in php. There aren’t too many fancy bells and whistles that I’ll never use and what is there is easy to configure and make some use of. Development and the community are both pretty active. This […]
Considering my awstats page is password protected, I was pretty surprised to see porn links in the referer stats this morning. But I’m guessing the spammers don’t really give a crap if no one will actually see their links, they just carpet bomb everyone they can. I hate spam. There were only two referers, but […]