Changing hat from consultant to product developer
Today, I’m starting a bit of an adventure. Today I’m hoping to change the focus of my business from a consulting focused business over to a product focused business. I’m sure that there will be plenty of consulting that will continue to occur, but I’m hoping to develop a “product†for sale that will see [...]
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Linux Action Show
If you haven’t listened to Chris and Bryan’s show, you gotta: The Linux Action Show
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Garmin Nuvi Map Update – A long hard road to map
My wife surprised me with a GPS system for my birthday last month, and I love it. Georgia is a difficult state to navigate around. Each of the older roads are named for where they go.  This means that the roads end up changing names every 5 miles or less. For example, Roswell Rd. is [...]
Tags: Garmin, Maps, Nuvi
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Batch processing JPG images! Everyone MOGRIFY!
I’ve been doing more web site designs lately. My clients will often give me hundreds of product images that I need to manipulate. I’ve got Thumbnailer on the Windows platform to do a lot of my processing. However, I’ve taken to adding borders to the images. Typically I’m adding a white inner border, with a [...]
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Akregator : Love it.
I’ve been running Akregator for several months now. It’s working great. For my only complaint, I’ve just fixed a few minutes ago. I don’t know why I lived with this annoyance for so long. When I want to read a blog entry in an external browser such as Firefox, it wouldn’t open the browser if [...]
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MP3 Download from Walmart : FAIL
I’m really liking that we can now purchase DRM free music in the form of MP3s. Napster, Amazon, Walmart, and others finally are providing the way to purchase music without handcuffs for personal use. I’m finally glad to see the music industry to get that bug out of their … but something isn’t quite right. [...]
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WordPress Blog Update Plugin
I’ve got two blogs, and I use WordPress for a wide variety of my clients as a way for them to update their web sites. It’s worked out very well. It’s always been a pain, and a worry, to keep all of their WordPress installations updated. In fact, this blog has been attacked many times [...]
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Is the web site really down, or is it just me?
How many times have you visited a web site, and it’s down. Then you begin to wonder if maybe it’s your connection? or your DSN? or a fiber cable cut? Sure, you can try pinging and tracerouting, but it sure would be nice to have another opinion. Well, here’s a web site that does a [...]
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No FoxForward 2008
I’ve been putting off this official announcement for a while now. It is my unpleasant task of announcing that I won’t be hosting FoxForward in 2008, and I don’t have plans for another one. I am very proud of FoxForward, and I am awe struck by the talented speakers that presented at the conference. I [...]
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KDiff3 Saves The Day
I’m working for a client doing ASP (Classic) with some COMs against a SQL Server back end. All of a sudden IE7 has a problem with the login page with javascript on one of the servers, but not the others. I’m on a Linux laptop and I have left my Beyond Compare behind on my [...]
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