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.

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.

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.

After much toil and sweat, mostly by other people, the Habari Community is proud to announce the immediate availability of our newest stable release.

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:

Yeah, even the dark lord of the Sith needs the blues every once in a while.

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:

Just testing out this new service. Looks interesting.