So the IT security software on my computer at work said I had to upgrade to Firefox 3.0.1 or die. So I upgraded thinking, "It's out of beta and people have said good things so what the hell?" Firefox 3 is amazing and my current browser of choice. Some things I like about the new Firefox: Faster rendering of pages The pages render much faster in Firefox than in IE 7. However, I have read that this is due to certain hacks that Firefox uses. I have read that it downloads images, text, and other things that really matter to humans reading it. Safari is faster on the rendering side, but...
As of the 21st, I am now married to a wonderful woman. We were married in the fabulous Las Vegas, NV.
We are looking forward to a long and happy life together.
Nowadays, it seems that PHP is what makes a website on the internet. With a LAMP server being so cheap, it appears to be the ideal platform for developing your personal site. However, it seems that PHP is good for more than just that. PHP has proven its ability to scale well and it still performs well on minimal hardware requirements. In fact, the only way you would get better performance is if you went back and wrote your application in C and that's a whole different can of worms. As Jeff Atwood pointed out ( Coding Horror: "PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter" ), there are many popular...
I'm done with finals! Woo! Now I have time to do other fun things like get married and work on things I find useful. One of the things I've started is getting back into listening to podcasts. I've been focusing on Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood's joint ventrue Stack Overflow it's a programmer podcast, but interesting nevertheless. I like the fact that they are technology agnostic and they are speaking about things that are really relevent. Another good podcast that I'm getting back into is Industrial Radio . It's great for checking out new industrial bands and being reminded of the awesome old ones...
Ever tried to make a copy of a file and then windows spits back an error claiming that the file is in use and cannot be accessed? In Windows Vista, the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) allows you to make entire copies of files that are in use and even make incremental copies of files. This is foundation for the improved Backup software in Windows Vista. Microsoft TechNet has a good article on How VSS Works . VSS is definitely one of the technologies that makes Vista worth while. So how can we use VSS to make copies other than making an entire backup? The answer is a Hobo. Well Hobocopy , which...
I love to play around with OSes in a controlled environment. With the availability of Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 for free, that means all the more fun for me. For the past few days I've been trying to get Ubuntu Linux working in a VM, but to no avail. So I gave up on that and decided to try OpenSUSE 10.3. I was able to get 10.2 installed in a VM with no problems, but 10.3 was proving to be more of a challenge. So, after looking around on the internet I found a helpful guide at Kyle's Tech Exploits . Turns out that my primary issue really was just that the DVD doesn...
A few weeks ago I decided that I wanted to learn a new programming language. Since I am a nerd, this is what I do with my free time. I started looking around at various languages and their applications. Objective C with Mac OS, COBOL as the financial business world’s language, Brainf#@k for the sheer fun of it… It came down to two open source heavy hitters: Ruby and Python.
I updated my theme to PixelGreen from http://www.styleshout.com/.
I like it.
