tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53858482979628734452011-11-27T20:30:26.180-05:00I'm coming late to the blogging game, but what the hay... why not join in anyway? I hope that this will be a good place to just post my experiences, troubles, and maybe some ideas. If someone finds it useful, please let me know.Ingohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01886038375370525595noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5385848297962873445.post-58216392957919563892009-03-11T15:01:00.000-04:002009-03-11T15:16:30.394-04:00

Total Recall isn't just an old Governator movie, it's also a goal for anyone that's ever forgotten anything.  Evernote goes a long way to making that possible, but you still have to remember to save or send items to it before it can "Remember Everything".One thing missing from that equation for me is RSS feeds - I subscribe to several hundred feeds (of which I actively follow around 50).  But

Ingohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01886038375370525595noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5385848297962873445.post-61851791878018567152008-08-03T10:02:00.001-04:002008-08-03T10:05:25.760-04:00

First off, I loved my PalmOS Treo 650 - it very capably contained my life. It held my calendar, my contacts, and my to-do list for many years. The base system filled most of my needs, but of course I couldn't leave well enough alone. I added more applications. They made it unstable, but I felt I couldn't live without their added functionality.Then it died back in June. It refused to power on

Ingohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01886038375370525595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5385848297962873445.post-49689366192262505652008-07-18T07:46:00.001-04:002008-07-18T07:46:06.756-04:00

I've been spending quite a lot of time on my organization's web presence, it's definitely been interesting. We have 4+ different sites, using 4 different custom-designed technologies. I've got one that was built in Dreamweaver, one in .ASP, one in PHP, and a couple of static sites I haven't had enough time to investigate yet. Not one is a true CMS, and all have plenty of "issues", mainly on

Ingohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01886038375370525595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5385848297962873445.post-174906397677765312008-07-08T16:58:00.004-04:002008-07-08T17:07:47.959-04:00

Over the last few weeks I've learned just how much I didn't know about web design and management, but I was also pleasantly surprised by just how much I do know. One of the things I learned is that it's easy to picture a site design in your head, but a little harder to actually explain it to someone without a wireframe. Enter Balsamiq Mockups, a tool that lets you have that "I designed it on a

Ingohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01886038375370525595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5385848297962873445.post-23419034761883704222008-06-29T13:26:00.001-04:002008-06-29T13:26:25.727-04:00

I recently read about a few tools that might make blogging just a bit easier, hence more likely to actually get done. For instance, I installed the ScribeFire Firefox extension. Pretty darn cool so far! Blog while you surf!

Ingohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01886038375370525595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5385848297962873445.post-1976678494307694732008-06-01T17:04:00.000-04:002008-07-08T17:06:45.441-04:00

So the old gig with the high-tech semiconductor intellectual property company is over. It was interesting for a while, but really started going downhill post-IPO when the goals changed from "let's do the best possible job we can and really make an impact!" to "OMG, we have to make the numbers this quarter!! Ship it!!".My new gig is with a Not-for-Profit outfit trying to make the world a safer

Ingohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01886038375370525595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5385848297962873445.post-63180107206144364392007-11-18T12:46:00.000-05:002007-11-18T12:51:00.682-05:00

Normally, vi is my IDE. But for RoR, I decided I wanted something that does syntax checking, suggestions, and hints. Aptana had a nice tool, but then I tried Netbeans... Netbeans is much, much nicer.But I do suggest not downloading the entire thing. Instead, get the Ruby-only version from http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/ruby - it's much smaller and somewhat faster, since it doesn't

Ingohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01886038375370525595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5385848297962873445.post-22522032032664780312007-11-16T13:29:00.000-05:002007-11-18T12:52:09.690-05:00

I've been wanting to learn Ruby on Rails for a long time, so I'm finally getting around to it because I have an idea for a website. Maybe I'll talk about that concept later, but for now, Mum's the Word.First impressions:I have a pretty good programming background, but it's over 75% procedural. Ruby is 100% OO, so I have to get in that mindset. Not too difficult...But the whole

Ingohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01886038375370525595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5385848297962873445.post-36240377915922664892007-03-24T12:20:00.000-04:002007-03-25T10:28:06.229-04:00

I didn't know anyone cared! Thank you for caring! I am currently IT Manager at a semiconductor intellectual property (IP) platforms company where I am responsible for all IT operations world-wide at our 6 international design and development sites. We use a mix of Windows, Linux, and Solaris systems as well as a plethora of varying back-end and network devices.Supporting a world-wide hi-tech

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