I think I’m gonna go cold turkey on coffee. It may help keep me awake, but drinking 3 cups a day probably isn’t doing much for my productivity (anymore), and certainly isn’t good for my stomach lining.
We’ll see how much I regret that decision later. Even now I can hear the coffee maker here at work, and am having to resist the urge to grab my mug and head over there.
Read more...Zyps screencast...
I don’t see any way I can convert this to Quicktime MOV for Chris Matthieu’s Rubyology podcast without Quicktime Pro, so I guess I can make my screencast for Zyps public…
Once the new Dell laptop comes in (the Acer’s taking a crap), I’m gonna buy QT Pro and try to convert it. (My desktop is running Win2K right now, which Apple no longer supports.)
Read more...Yay! Dreamhost just added PHPbb 3.0 to their 1-click installs page! (Yes, I could probably do an install myself, but I have better things to do with my time.) Just waiting for the notification to come through from the “installer robot”.
This should take care of my spammer problems. Zyps can have a forum now!
Read more...A change to our vendor’s WSDL has me back to dinking around with wscompile and wsimport again. I think they’ve screwed up somewhere in their chain of a dozen XSD imports, ‘cause I’m getting “already defined” errors. I don’t dare refer to any book published before 2006 for help, because it will be flat-out wrong. Argh - so, so frustrating.
Read more...Is my Perl showing?
I copied my comment on my Enso 2.0 prototype problems to the Humanized blog, and got this reply from “Andreas”:
> It also shows why adding complexity to the system is a Bad Idea. If bad design doesn't get you, entropy will. Very true. And sounds like a Larry Wall quote. :-D
They just posted a new version of the prototype. We’ll see if it addresses any of my concerns.
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