Author: admin
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Joel on Customer Service
I have tuned in to Joel on Software (the blog of the owner of Fog Creek software) from time to time, and have always found his opinions refreshing. Today my brother pointed me to a recent article Joel posted about doing customer service the Right Way™. I find all 8 of his points to be…
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lshw
Have you ever needed to know the hardware configuration of a linux box that sits halfway across the country? I recently needed to determine exactly what kind of ram was needed for a server sitting 4 states away from where I live – and not only what kind of ram it used, but how much…
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Birthday List ’07
Ok world, here it is: Kimball’s birthday list – 2007 This year I’m pretty much into the same stuff I’m always looking for (in fact, much of this list is the same as last year’s list) – digital devices of some sort or another, tools (especially the kind that require at least 120 V AC)…
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Santa is Coming To Town…
Ok world, here it is: Kimball’s Christmas List – 2006 I’m a geek. I like geek stuff. I’m also a guy. I like typical guy stuff like movies and video games. Here are the top items I’m really looking for this year: iFM Dock – an FM tuner/remote control for my iPod. Laptop Stand –…
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How Much Optimizing Should I Do?
With the ever-increasing speed of consumer computers, frequently developers decide that it is much more important to get their applications shipped quickly than to take extra time to optimize their code a bit. This morning I ran across an interesting article that points why this is a Bad Idea™. The Fallacy Of Premature Optimization From…
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New(ish) Web Server
So, quite some time ago I picked up a newer used machine than my current web server. Over time I have gradually moved bits and pieces of things over to the new box. Tonight I finally had time to move this darn blog. 🙂 So, feast your eyes – this is being served by a…
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Kimball Birthday List ’06
Ok world, here it is: Kimball’s birthday list – 2006 This year I’m pretty much into the same stuff I’m always looking for (in fact, much of this list is the same as last year’s list) – digital devices of some sort or another, tools (especially the kind that require at least 120 V AC)…
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Family History
For those of you who are looking to do a bit of work on your family history, I have set up PhpGedView on my server – click here to get to it.
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Ruby on Rails
So, a few weeks ago I was looking for a way to escape the XML pain that is involved in writing just about any web application in Java these days. Honestly, I was beginning to feel like in trying to make Java web apps so easy to write, the increased complexity to handle all the XML was actually…
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PSyncX
Ever since I got a monster drive for my home server (which, btw, powers this website) I have been looking for a good backup solution for OS X. This morning it appears I have found one: PSyncX While I have just set up a simple backup to test it, it appears that this utility will…