Yearly Archives: 2008

WordPress 2.7

On Thursday, the WordPress team released version 2.7 of the blogging app used by yours truly.  I couldn’t help but rush towards upgrading this weekend to see the management interface. It’s a fairly big jump in layout even compared to … Continue reading

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Happy Halloween

I know it’s a little delayed, but I’ve finally had a chance to go through my pictures from Halloween, and one of the slow exposures of a jack-o’ lantern came out really well.   I’m finally getting back to post production … Continue reading

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QOTD: Real Software Quality

I came across this quote from Linus Torvalds today that really struck a cord with me: “Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they’re involved and taking it personally,” – Linus Torvalds, … Continue reading

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OpenOffice.org 3.0

The latest in the OpenOffice.org offerings has been released today in all it’s server busting glory.  I’ve actually been using the beta for about a month now, and have been quite happy with the new version.  For those of you … Continue reading

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Advanced Bash Redirection + Logging

Just the other day I came across a great post by Travis B. Hartwell regarding how to redirect stdout to stderr to a file while still displaying that output.  Not only does he show how it could be done, he goes through … Continue reading

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Stackoverflow.com – Knowledge Sharing on Steroids

While I do feel that I have learned a great deal in the past three years as a software engineer, there’s still much more for me to learn.  One blog to that I read on a very regular basis is … Continue reading

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University Study: Most Users Don’t Pay Attention To Dialogs

OK, I’m definitely being nicer with my title than Arstechnica’s Fake popup study sadly confirms most users are idiots.  Regardless of the title, the study about user responses to error or warning dialog boxes is quite interesting.  In the study, conducted by … Continue reading

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Heroes: Villains

Tonight, NBC is continuing one of my favorite television shows ever: Heroes. I know I don’t generally talk about television shows too much, however I just wanted to throw in my two cents that I hope they continue this show … Continue reading

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Yarr!

All ah kin recommend ye is that ye best be speakin’ like a proper pirate, or yer booty will be becommin’ the property of yours truly. You who don’t be follow the current events best be readin’ up, cuz this … Continue reading

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Fortune Widget 0.4

Today I just release Fortune Widget 0.4, which includes corrections for WordPress 2.2.x and newer (I know… I know… a little behind the curve here).  Additionally I’ve added some better error output to indicate why a fortune file read may … Continue reading

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