Observations on Technology from an Aging Geek
Dan S I’ve just spent the better part of an hour trying to figure out why my cfcUnit tests for this project I’m working on suddenly stopped working….stopped working as in DOA. No errors, no failures, no screen output, NADA. All the tests were running fine (and passing) yesterday when I left the office so I was … Read more
I’m so pumped! I just got my registration complete for cf.Objective() in St. Paul, MN May 2-4. I also registered for the 2-day pre-conference workshop. I’ve been doing some basic work with Mach II over the last few months but want to get some in-depth knowledge of how to (correctly) build larger applications. There are … Read more
Parking – $7Shuttle – $10Ticket on the 40 yard line 5 rows from the field – $50Drink at half time – $7 Watching KY beat Florida State in the Music City Bowl – PRICELESS!!!!!
A couple weeks ago I posted about moving our SVN repositories to a hosted solution at CVSDude.com. I primarily wanted to do that so that I wouldn’t have to be responsible for administering the SVN server (performing backups, configuring hook scripts etc). I’ve got enough on my plate right now without trying to become an … Read more
Just a quick note to say Merry Christmas and a very happy and prosperous new year to all my readers (all 2 or 3 of you that I know of). We’ve been having family Christmas celebrations for a little over a week now due to our extended family being spread over two states. Tomorrow morning … Read more
I recently decided to outsource my souce code management to CVSDude. I had been running SVN on my VPS that I have at Slicehost and that had been running okay. However, I’m only good enough at SVN administration to get the server up and running and create a few repositories and there were other things … Read more
…that I made the choice to convert to the Mac platform so as to avoid having to deal with Vista! My Mom had to get a new machine this week after the processor on her old one went out. Of course it came with Vista and, after a couple of days of futzing about with … Read more
Well, I’ve been “experiencing” Mac OS 10.5 Leopard for about 48 hours now. After waiting so long and having this operating system so hyped up, I have to admit my reaction so far is somewhat mixed. My “experience” started off somewhat rocky. I attempted to do an in-place upgrade in order to keep all my … Read more
Earlier this summer when someone told me that you could hook two Macs together with a firewire cable, boot one up while holding down the “T” button and access its drive from the other like any other external firewire drive, I never actually thought I’d use it. Today, while working on one of my daughters’ … Read more
Apple announced this morning that the new version of OS X (Leopard) will be released on October 26th at 6:00pm. I for one can’t wait to get my hands on the new version (so much so that I’m pre-ordering the family pack today). I’ve been a huge fan of OS X since I made the … Read more