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Maintenance Mode
10am - May 3 2008 ·
Excuse the mess, I'm working on the site design today. It's been a really long week with a bunch of cool things going on that I'll let you in on later. We had breakfast this morning at the diner and then later this afternoon it's the McClellanville, Lowcountry Shrimp Festival and Blessing of the Fleet! Last night I redesigned this site and since we caught up on yard work and part of the afternoon is going to be outside, I'm going to spend the rest of the weekend tinkering with the design of this site.. so, excuse the... [read on]
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Social Programming
8am - April 22 2008 ·
While the supposed grand ole days of helpful and responsive use net forums went by before i even opened a script on a computer.. what's evolved of so called social networking is seemingly working it's way with dynamic apps into programming circles which makes sense considering it really began there in the first place. Being entirely self taught, I've learned quickly that the best way to do things is to stand on the shoulders of giants and keep up with the user groups of the things that i want to learn. This concept... [read on]
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Siddhartha
6pm - April 18 2008 ·
I took the afternoon off this afternoon as i was a bit worn out hunching over a bunch of sites, code, and monitors today. I put a chair outside to enjoy the sun and get rid of some of my programmer's tan... and I managed to read Hermann Hesse' novel - Siddhartha in one sitting. (150 pages) I give it a 9/10.. and while i'm no literary expert I certainly and immediately identified with Siddhartha, the main character and I would recommend that you seriously consider it for your reading repertoire. Or here is the whole... [read on]
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Maintenance Mode
10am - May 3 2008 ·
Excuse the mess, I'm working on the site design today. It's been a really long week with a bunch of cool things going on that I'll let you in on later. We had breakfast this morning at the diner and then later this afternoon it's the McClellanville, Lowcountry Shrimp Festival and Blessing of the Fleet! Last night I redesigned this site and since we caught up on yard work and part of the afternoon is going to be outside, I'm going to spend the rest of the weekend tinkering with the design of this site.. so, excuse the... [read on]
Social Programming
8am - April 22 2008 ·
While the supposed grand ole days of helpful and responsive use net forums went by before i even opened a script on a computer.. what's evolved of so called social networking is seemingly working it's way with dynamic apps into programming circles which makes sense considering it really began there in the first place. Being entirely self taught, I've learned quickly that the best way to do things is to stand on the shoulders of giants and keep up with the user groups of the things that i want to learn. This concept... [read on]
Siddhartha
6pm - April 18 2008 ·
I took the afternoon off this afternoon as i was a bit worn out hunching over a bunch of sites, code, and monitors today. I put a chair outside to enjoy the sun and get rid of some of my programmer's tan... and I managed to read Hermann Hesse' novel - Siddhartha in one sitting. (150 pages) I give it a 9/10.. and while i'm no literary expert I certainly and immediately identified with Siddhartha, the main character and I would recommend that you seriously consider it for your reading repertoire. Or here is the whole... [read on]
Benchmarking Beta
6am - April 17 2008 ·
(this site over the last 30 days) Google Analytics released a beta version of something they call benchmarking... it's good. I hear all the time.. my site got x number of hits, and i say to myself.."what kind of hits" because what most people don't understand is that a lot of internet traffic is automated (machines) and that only a unique visit or return visit with any substantial amount of time .. over a couple minutes, is really a valuable visitor... and everything else, i would consider spam. What benchmarking allows... [read on]
Postgres Python update..
6pm - April 16 2008 ·
Python 2.5.2, Postgres 8.3.1, and Django .96 i've been playing around again with python today... i went ahead and upgraded my postgresql and python on my machine... nothing too tough, although i spent an hour going in loops until i realize that the some of the python scripts were not in usr/local/bin as i always say.. if i'd only read the actual install.txt file before i started hacking away.. i also ran into a problem with psycopg.. tring tring suggested using macports for ver2.. as configuration can be tricky modifying... [read on]
Turbo Tax
11am - April 10 2008 ·
I think i can endorse it...i'm certainly not an accountant or tax expert, but i like knowing exactly how it works vs. paying someone so i don't have to think about it. i have very little expenses and most of my work is freelance (services) with only some depreciation on computers and cameras.. i drive a good deal and it seems that turbo tax is picking up on all of these things and often double checking. I'm pretty pleased that it sync-ed up with quickbooks and was easy to use... now if i could just find a way to spend... [read on]
10am - April 3 2008 ·
gotta love it.. i was dragging this morning.. opened my email at 6:30am and sure enough there was my high school prom picture (thats me in on the far left with the strange expression) staring me in the face some 15 years later. (how about this one - with some sort of blasé 80's attitiude) Nostalgic.. yes and cool for the fact that it's so easy to network with anyone nowadays. I get emails from the most random people just google-'ing' my name and for the most part my brother always accuses me over researching into prospective... [read on]
Wordpress 2.5
9am - March 31 2008 ·
The latest stable release of WordPress (Version 2.5) is now available. WordPress.com hosts 2.7 million WordPress blogs...and in honor of that i put up my own little space on wordpress. Let's put wordpress into perspective for those of you who don't understand cms (content managment systems), databases, blogs etc... it's like this.. a database is like an excel spreadsheet (oracle, berkleydb, mysql).. and an easy way to make content dynamic on a page is to pull the database content into the webpage with a variety of scripting... [read on]
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Social Programming
While the supposed grand ole days of helpful and responsive use net forums went by before i even opened a script on a computer.. what's evolved of so called social networking is... [Read more]
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Benchmarking Beta
(this site over the last 30 days) Google Analytics released a beta version of something they call benchmarking... it's good. I hear all the time.. my site got x number of hits,... [Read more]
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