Hurray Mac mini

May 2, 2008

I finally bit the bullet and bought one, and it’s delicious.

jQuery, nothin’ but love for ya

Apr 13, 2008

For the longest time, I was anti-javascript in just about every sense. Once I figured out how to do rollovers with CSS instead of JS, I pretty much abandoned all JS on my work. This was before Ajax was known for more than its grease fighting abilities on pans and other dirty dishes. Needless to say, it was only a matter of time before I had to use Javascript - and it was an absolute disaster. Of course, now I know it was simply my inexperience with Javascript (and more importantly, cross-browser Javascript) that made it such a disaster. Now I know there are great tools already made to do most of this stuff for you.

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FTBS… I’m getting a Mac

Apr 2, 2008

I’ve decided that I am going to purchase a Mac Mini with my tax refund. I am sick of Windows on my old laptop, and Fireworks in Wine is slow as death. The Mac will give me the tastiness of Fireworks with the stability of Unix. I can’t wait.

Movierack (again)

Mar 12, 2008

It seems I have a habit of revisiting old projects every time I learn a new way of doing things. Naturally, this means I’m remaking movierack.net again using CodeIgniter.

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Asterisk on Ubuntu Server

Mar 4, 2008

I know I’ve blogged this before, but these are the steps I took most recently to get Asterisk running on a fresh Ubuntu Server (Dapper) installation. The instructions will also work on Feisty or Gutsy server.

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Random Date Helpers

Feb 17, 2008

I wrote these as helpers for a project I’m making with CodeIgniter, but you can use them in any application.

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Stuff I need to do

Feb 12, 2008

Create something for any (preferably all) of the following sites I pay for: nevercraft.net, voipninja.net, movierack.net, mp3dojo.net, tehsource.net
Use Ruby On Rails for one of the aforementioned projects.
Learn OpenSER and setup a server for no reason other than to say I could.
Find a car.
Re-assess priorities, and find a car first.
Purchase a new computer
Complete my tax return.
Go to sleep earlier.

Kate Project Manager Plugin on Kubuntu

Feb 5, 2008

It was a pain, but this ought to work:

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Oh, how I love you Kate…

Jan 2, 2008

The KDE text editor Kate is my latest weapon. Its great if you’re on a slower connection (or you’re torrenting and killing a faster one) as it downloads the file to your hard drive before you edit it. I love me some vim - but it is no fun on a slow connection, waiting 30 seconds to move between lines.