Book Review
Just for Fun by Linus Torvalds is a great read!
It’s not so much autobiographical as much as it is a series of mini essays (always humorous) that read much quicker than you realize. It gives you a light and clever insight to the life of arguably the most popular programmer in the world. You hear about everything from his meaning of life to why he bought a BMW Z3 to (of course) the linux kernel.
I highly recommend it!
I was going to let people borrow it from be but given the fact that it’s the only copyright that Linus owns, I thought ’screw it’ they can cough up the $14.99 themselves. I mean, he just bought a BMW!
SB Update
So you guys know. I have ENABLED email author when a comment has been added to the authors post. This will alert the author that one us has responded. May make us more aware of site stuff.
Also sent you guys my 1st Cell phone photo!!
Portable Computing
Hey guys, I’d like your opinions on portable computing devices. I am quickly approaching the point where I would like to be able to do development on the go, including coding, apache and a database, even doing flash or graphics work. Basically a portable development environment, with some form of wireless technology and some form of keyboard.
PDA? Handheld Computer? SubNotebook? Notebook? GameBoy? Is there some new uber-device that I’m missing out on? What do you guys think?
Deception vs Stress
Well, back to another week of work. Been a little stressed out lately so I am going to divert some of this stress into a book that I am going to pickup today during lunch which is: Art of Deception. Maybe this will get my brain thinking in a completely opposite direction. Here we all try to make our code secure every time we do something, so why not dive into the minds of the real “processors” of the world…. The Hackers. Just think if you can learn the in’s then you can know how to better protect your stuff. Hope you guys have a good week working.
Searching for Johnny Veon
.. Searching for Grendelny Stupe is like Bobby Fischer. He never answers his phone. Emails go days without any response, even then maybe its not him just a script he wrote to reply randomly to them based on keywords. Ever so often he shoots in an IM and teases you by greeting you, then maybe.. maybe 2 sentences and BAM.. He’s gone like a pair of undies on a prostitute 
Any sightings of his existance should be made to Rob or Paul ASAP.
Komodo
Well boys working on this HUGE file consisting of 7200 lines has really put the brakes on Homesite. It gets very laggy when trying to scroll up and down through the document. This is not good. It is really a waste of my time. I did alot of research on the Homesite Forums and although MacroMedia is supporting it they really aren’t. Good example being, there went a couple weeks where the links for the upgrade were broken. It took many responses for them to clean it up.
As far as any further updates? Not looking to good MM is trying to make DreamWeaver take over IMO. Since I really don’t like it nor do MOST homesite users, we are all going towards the Open Source Community again…. now step in Komodo. The personal version is only $29.95 which has a built in debugger for most OS languages. The Professional version integrates CVS and some other goodies as well like vertical lines to show your indentations in the code. The autocomplete for PHP is fantastic too. Also available in a Linux version.
Linux, good…Unix, bad.
Seems like SCO Unix is lookin for some Intellectual Property lovin’, especially with McDonalds upping their OpenServer licence from 4,000 stores to 10,000 stores this year. Hmmmm…you want fries with that?
Photo Hunt
Seeing some of the weird people here in Buffalo, gives me an idea.
Since I have installed gallery, I was thinking of creating an Album called Photo Hunt.
Someone weekly will have to change the theme.
Example: Bum sitting outside StarBucks
I think we all have cameras, if not then FORGET I EVER BLOGGED THIS!!
JSRS
I’ve been getting my feet wet with JavaScript Remote Scripting (JSRS), a technique whereby data is refreshed on a web page without having to refresh the entire page. Basically, it’s an RPC method (asynchronous, no socket stuff) and it’s available with PHP, ASP, JSP, Flash, Perl/CGI, etc. For killer info look at this O’Reilly Network article, or you can go to Ashley IT and the home of JSRS. Also, a pretty tight IBM article here and the microsoft version (of course) by some MS guy named Dino Esposito – WTF???.
This is wicked cool, and there’s something for everybody…so jump on board!
CIW
Well boys I am officially a CIW (Certified Internet Webmaster) Associate now. Next month I take another exam which will bump my cert to CIW Professional. What does it mean? Nothing really besides a piece of paper that says I know some stuff about the internet.
