If you’ve been viewing my blog recently, you’ll now notice that the theme has changed and everything looks rather differently. There’s a good reason for this. I’ve now switched to Typo, a RubyOnRails powered blogging engine. I spent quite a bit of time evaluating a few different options, compared features, etc. I’ll post the results of that later, because I figure it might save many other folks hours of work, but for now, the important [...]

I find the term “viral marketing” interesting enough in it’s own right, but as I understand it, it certainly applies to online video. The term “viral” just seems to bring bad connotations to mind. Maybe it’s because a virus spreads by infecting, devouring, and eventually destroying it’s host, but I find it interesting that the frustrated marketers in attempts to shove more advertisements in your face have turned to “viral” tactics to achieve their goals. [...]

I realize that I’m behind the times, but I finally got around to downloading the Google Web Toolkit last night and began to play around with it. From what I’ve seen it’s pretty neat. You simply write Java code, and the Google Web Toolkit will translate it into browser compatible JavaScript. They’ve created a group of components (buttons, tables, tabs, checkboxes, radio buttons, etc.) that are built to handle browser compatibility issues, thus taking the [...]

So the my web server sits in the baby’s room at my house. It sits in the corner, and the only thing plugged into it is power and network. This is fine for just about everything that I do, but every once in awhile, I have a problem that requires a user interface. VNC to the rescue. Ubuntu comes with Vino, a little VNC Server, pre-installed. You can go to System > Preferences > Remote [...]

I don’t know if I’ve extolled the virtues of Ubuntu on this blog yet, but they are many. They are, however, not the topic of this post. Every once in a while, I like to try different operating systems on my server, and at the moment, I’m just coming back to an Ubuntu server after a brief fling with Windows Server 2003. On the list of things to do after install was to get Ubuntu [...]