And the last one
I think this will be the last in my “best use of K2”series. Although this one feels very close to invader in many respects, I really like what Valter has done visually with this mod of the mod.
I hope to post a new tutorial either late tonite, or tomorrow afternoon on PHP 5, so stay tuned.
Today be the day of the pirate!
Yes friends, today is the much anticipated “International Talk Like a Pirate Day”, so let your bucaneer flags fly high. If you haven’t already downloaded the Desktop, go and download it now before I make you walk the plank!
So go and ride the high seas of adventure and… booty; that didn’t sound right.
Avast, Ye.
Yes, it is that time of year again, International Talk Like A Pirate Day, and in celebration here is the desktop I made last year to celebrate. Download and enjoy.
I apologize for the lack of updates lately, but things have been hectic at work, at home and at work #2 (my social software company, currently in stealth mode). I am prepping a new tutorial on abusing the object system in PHP 5 for wealth and glory as well as polishing up an update to CJD Notepad that among other shiny things, integrates your notes with the Write Post screen, so you can access those notes from everywhere.
Until next time then.
Back, but still out of touch
We just arrived home from our vacation, and boy am I glad to be home again!
I will update with pictures and text when I have time, but right now I need to crash for a bit. Oh and since I didn’t get any response to the stopping at The Varsity in Hotlanta, we just came on home… I hope there weren’t any people there expecting us to show up.
Out of Contact
Just wanted to let everyone know that I am in Georgia visiting family. I am thinking of trying to have an impromptu meetup with WordPressers and other interested persons at Varsity in Atlanta.
I will post more as I know more.
Unfortunately
The money I was counting on to get me to SF for WordCamp isn’t going to make it to me in time, so I am going to be a no show.
I was really looking forward to meeting so many of you, and cornering Matt to have a little chat about current events in our community. Looks like that will have to wait as well.
Have a good time for me people, and give Bryan a proper congrats for joining Automattic.
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Tagging and merging in SVN
I have spoke about SVN before, specifically how to set up and use it on MacOS X. Now I am going to cover one of the more useful, and frustrating features of SVN; breaking up your development into trunk (active development) and tags (feature frozen releases).
First of all, why tag?
There are two models that you can follow when developing a large, enterprise scale application. You can check your code into SVN, and effectively have nothing but trunk, that is you will have one version of the code for said project, and you will make checkouts from it when you have reached a certain level of maturity and featurefullness. In the case of a web application, the most popular practice when using this scenario is to have your website running out of a checkout.
An answer to the quiz
There were a couple of people who were close, but no one hit it on the nose, so here is what I did:
First you snag the firewire cable from the iSight and connect one end to the broken drive lappy, and the other end to the not-so-broken drive lappy. Then you restart the broken drive lappy in firewire target disk mode; once the HD of broken lappy pops up on no-so-broken lappy you launch System Prefs and use the Startup Disk chooser to choose the HD loaded via firewire. You then reboot the no-so-broken lappy and that’s it.
Once the not-so-broken lappy boots, it will pick up where the install left off, in this case asking for disk 2 of the install media. There you have it. Oh and for the questions regarding my sanity for deploying a machine with a dead CD-ROM, that machine would be running an Excel spreadsheet, and nothing else. Didn’t need a CD-ROM for that.
Sillyness First: a quiz!
So, this is going to be a Mac OS X tip in the form of a quiz… MacGyver style.
The Scenario
You have too craptastic TiBook’s that you are in the process of wiping clean and reinstalling the OS on. One is just about to finish the install, and the other one is finishing up disk 1 or 4 disks.
As laptop 1 finishes, you notice a strange buzzing noise coming from the CD-ROM of laptop 2, and after some fiddling you realize that the CD-ROM has died. Laptop 2 is asking you to insert disk 2 of the install, but of course you can’t now since the CD-ROM she be dead.
You have exactly 2 hours to get both of these machines ready for field deployment; there is not time or money for replacing the CD-ROM and there is no time to start the install over… you have to continue from where you left off.
Your resources
Apart from the two laptops you have an iSight and an iPod, and all the accessories that they would usually come with. The question now is, how do you finish the install on laptop 2?
This happened to me today, and by the time I left the office at 12:00 I had the OS on both laptops, ready to go. How did I do it?
Depending on a number of factors, there may be a prize for the winner…
CCCU Con Day 3
Well I am in the last session of the conference, and strangely I am pretty impressed.
Thankfully day two and three were much more fun than the first one. Not to say it was all ponies and rainbows, but I went to some really nice sessions, and made some good connections with some of my peers at other colleges and universities.
One of the most importnat things to come out of this conference for me were the conversations that I had with people who wanted to know more about opne source solutions, and how they could benefit their institutions. It was very eye-opening to know that we at Asbury are really out in front when it comes to leveraging the power of open source on our campus.
All in all, it was a good experience.
CCCU Con Day 1
Unfortunately I can’t give you a glowing report so far from this conference. Currently I have sat through two sales pitches, not even very good ones either, and a keynote where all of the speakers points were supported by gross generalizations.
One of the things that I have been confronted with is the fact that web 2.0 itself has become a buzzword. I just sat through a presentation where the speaker spewed some nonsense about everything being on the net, and that is web 2.0. Sheesh.
I am hopeful that things will look up for the next two days… I hope.