Category: Technology

I don’t own, and have never seen (to my knowledge) an E85-capable vehicle. The pitch that’s being made to the American public by the likes of GM lately is that E85 is an alternative fuel source that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil, provide more horsepower and torque (because E85 is higher octane than…

This is my first post in my WordPress blog. I signed up at wordpress.com and got one. My first blog was at blogspot.com, which is run by blogger.com. That was my first taste of blogging, and it took me a long time to get used to the idea of jotting down my thoughts on occasion….

That’s one of my current projects at work. We were using a home-grown course management solution in the Computer Science department, because the faculty here (and elsewhere, I hear) aren’t fond of Blackboard, and they also know that there’s a good bit of in-house PHP knowledge, so we built our own at first. Unfortunately, they…

It happens to the best of us, and it happened to me. I’ve run the Linuxlaboratory.org domain for about 5 years I guess or something like that. I’ve overhauled the site a number of times to improve the look, usability, and maintainability of the site. Over the course of the past few years, I’ve tried…

Instead of firing up firefox, going to blogger.com, logging in, choosing “create new post” and all that stuff, I thought I give this new thing a try that I’ve been hearing about. It’s called “Flock”, and it really just makes a whole crapload of sense if you live half your life in the digital realm….

I’m never happy with whatever site I’m running or involved with. Evolution of a site is never fast enough for me, never fresh enough for me, and never easy enough to work with. Over the years, I’ve run test versions of my sites using Mambo, PostNuke, PHP-Nuke, PHP-X, Drupal, ezPublish, and many other LAMP-based CMS…

I think I have coder’s eyeball. OK, so I just coined that term myself, but after weeks of trying to write a rather involved extension in a very large, very convoluted, object-oriented PHP system, I think my eyes are suffering and need a break. For anyone who works with OO PHP projects, I don’t personally…