Death to IE!
“mysqlgame is probably not displaying properly in IE. We suggest Firefox or another standards-compliant browser. We’re not trying to be jerks about it, it’s just there’s only so much time in the day to spend trying to defeat Microsoft, and we gave up.”
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Deploying web apps with SVN
I sat in an interview today where the interviewee lamented the lack of a clearly laid out tutorial on how to deploy web applications with SVN.
Since this is exactly what we do at $work, I thought I would try my hand at hammering something out here. In this little diddy we will cover the the uses of trunk and tags. Also, please understand this is how we do it, not The One True WayTM.
Here are the terms I will be using, and what I mean when I type them:
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Yep, we’re moving to Texas.
Come September 1st, I will have a new job and my family will be living in a new state.
I know what you’re thinking. “Chris in Texas, where it’s hot, and hot and Oh my Lord it’s Hot!” Yeah I try not to think about the melting that will be happening after I get there.
Elevated temperatures aside, I and my family, are very excited about this move. My time at Asbury has been great; I have grown as a person, developer and employee in ways that I didn’t think possible a little over three years ago when I took the Web Architect postition.
ApacheCon in the Big Easy
As the good doctor has noted, registration is now open for ApacheCon New Orleans. I will be giving my world famous, better than ice cream, guaranteed to re-grow your hair, Meritocracy talk. You should come and listen. I talk good.
Habari 0.5 is out
After much toil and sweat, mostly by other people, the Habari Community is proud to announce the immediate availability of our newest stable release.
There are too many changes to name, so you just need to go download it and take a look.
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Making a watercolor, on the cheap
If you ever find yourself needing a piece of “art” and only have a photo to work with, then have I got a tip for you.
The process is fairly simple, but it does require Illustrator and photoshop. I am still working with CS2 at work and at home, so the steps I outline here will be for that version of the software.
Step 1: pick a photo
First, select the photo you want to use, I chose this panorama of the Asbury College campus:
Darth is blue…
Yeah, even the dark lord of the Sith needs the blues every once in a while.
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You know your a dork when
You are asked to fill a drop down with a range of heights, and you immediately write a PHP snippet to do it for you.
For those interested, this little routine could be useful for future use:
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Can We Save Free Software from RMS?
“… You might as well introduce the children to an addictive drug. If the XO turns out to be a platform for spreading the use of proprietary software, its overall effect on the world will be negative.”
Yes you self-righteous prat. Giving children in third world countries access to technology that will allow them to aspire to greater heights of learning and economic standing is evil, evil I say! Unless of course it is technology that you approve of. Then it is all ponies and rainbows.