Archive for January, 2009
Blog Updates
Just made a few changes to the blog. I added a recaptcha to the comment system as well as subscribing to the comments via email. I also updated the code highlighter so we get the pretty boxes and line numbering (and the code will look much nicer on skinnier browsers). I also added my résumé [...]
OSS Bugs Are Features
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about a presentation given by whurley at a refreshBCS meeting a long time ago. He gave his presentation on Open Source Software, only SLIGHTLY an era of his expertise (just in case you can’t tell, that was sarcasm) and raise an interesting point. He talked about how when BMC [...]
New extended life battery for my T61; or, holy crap I’m mobile again!
So my dinky default (6-cell I believe, maybe 4-cell) battery that came with my Lenovo Thinkpad T61 has been giving out on me. I believe my problem was I never flexed the battery when I first got it and now I was only getting about an hours worth of work out of my laptop. While [...]
Zend Framework Module Init Script (Controller Plugin)
Well, it’s been a while since I’ve done a PHP update hasn’t it? Well alls well here in CStat, I have a quickie for you folks. Recently at work I had the need to run a script before every single controller (namely to add a plugin folder to Dwoo) for a specific module that I [...]
My Seven Things (Or: Hey look, the cool kids picked me to play on the team!)
I just got tagged by the BAMF Chris Cornutt, creator of the (in)famous site PHP Developer.org to participate in the “Seven Things” blog tagfest. I’m barely 21 years old. For some reason people are always surprised by this. I’m convinced it’s my beard. That and how many 21 year olds ask for money to attend [...]