One of the best ways to keep up with your field and network at the same time is to attend conferences. It’s one of the things I look forward to every year. After learning that O’Reilly has decided to commit blasphemy and *not* hold OSCON in Portland, Oregon the same week as the Oregon Brewers…
Author: bkjones
How Are You Staffing Your Startup?
I have, in the past, worked for startups of varying forms. I worked for a spinoff that ultimately failed but had the most awesome product I’ve ever seen (neural networks were involved, need I say more?), I helped a buddy very early on with his startup, which did great until angel investors crept in, destroyed…
WordPress 2.7 – Ahhhhhh!
I guess WordPress doesn’t consider the changes they’ve made in 2.7 (released today) to be big enough to warrant a change to the major version number (which would make it 3.0). However, there are a few features now built-in that I’ve been dreaming about for so long that simply incrementing the second number seems to…
Hacking Drupal 6.x’s front page (or any other page)
Drupal themeing is addictive. I’ve been so busy mucking with the new layout for one of my sites that I still haven’t gotten all of the content moved over, categorized, etc. I was really itching to fix “one last thing” on my site, and that was the front page. My new layout uses the litejazz…
Drupal 6.x Themeing Tips
I’ve done some theme customization for Drupal, and I’ve used drupal as “just a user” for years. Recently, I took on a project to take a designer’s theme and make it work with Drupal. I’m pleased to say that, minus a couple of little quirks, it’s been relatively simple. Here are a couple of tips…
What’s the newest Python Comp. Sci. Textbook?
A Computer Science textbook that uses Python as its core language was released, I believe, this year. However, I CAN’T FIND IT! I searched google, amazon, bn.com, and used all the terms you’d normally think of using, and I can’t find this book anywhere. The book is black, and has a picture of a snake’s…
Where Can I Go That Isn’t Twitter?
In the few years since Twitter’s launch, they have shrunk the number of ways you can interact with it, shrunk the number of hours in the day when you can reliably get or send messages through it, and, now, shrunk the number of useful web-based services by two, with the announcement that stikkit and I…
Linux on Laptop = Epic Fail
I brought my MacBook Pro in for a warranty repair yesterday around noon. Since then I’ve been using a Lenovo T61 to get basic work done, and also to see if any progress has been made in the area of Linux support for my laptop. I bought this laptop specifically because a website said that…
Help me pick a new feed reader
I’ve been using Google Reader since it was created. I really love the *idea* of Google Reader. I like that scrolling through the posts marks them as read. I like that you can toggle between list and expanded views of the posts. I like that you can search within a feed or across all feeds…
MacBook Pro: Should I Just Get a Refurb?
I hate glossy screens. I’ve tried them. I don’t like them. It’s true that it would probably be good for my eyes in some way, since I do a lot of reading on the laptop and things *are* sharper with the glossy screen. However, there’s just no way I can deal with having a glossy…