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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.
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Oh XO
How I wanted to love you. I really did. This entry is written as a response to missives like this.
The idea is great, the design of the laptop is perfect and the choice of OS, at least initially, was perfect. Then, they had to go and design a new user interface that shares almost nothing in common with computers that kids that grow up with the XO’s will come in contact with in the real world.
Sugar and Spice and everything crappy
Yeah, I am just going to come right out and say it, I hate the sugar UI.
I hate the idea behind it, I hate the execution of it and I hate the feeling you get when you use it. You are doing a disservice to the kids who will be using these laptops, by not equipping them to work in the real world.