Category Archives: software.development

Last blog post for 2006

Posted on December 31, 2006 by dreadpiratepj

Happy New Year, everybody! It’s five and a half hours to the big hour here at Chez PJ, so I am taking this time to update you all about what’s going on. Last weekend, I finally got Trac and Subversion … Continue reading →

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Progress and hair pulling

Posted on December 22, 2006 by dreadpiratepj

Through the magic of social networking site LinkedIn, a friend of a friend introduced me to a friend. This friend is looking for a technical writer for a website with a geek audience interested in open source, Linux, web technologies, … Continue reading →

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GoDaddy server woes

Posted on December 14, 2006 by dreadpiratepj

I want to openly distribute to the interwebs various pieces of software, some that I’ve already developed, and some that I am in the process of developing. And I’d like to grow a developer and user community around this software … Continue reading →

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A look back before going forward

Posted on December 11, 2006 by dreadpiratepj

This last Thursday, December 7, I finished my latest paying consulting gig. And I have nothing lined up for the next few weeks. This will give me time to do a few things I had planned for pjtrix.com and my … Continue reading →

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Another seamless upgrade, and visitor comments.

Posted on August 14, 2006 by dreadpiratepj

I upgraded to WordPress 2.0.4 in thirty seconds, just a few minutes ago. After login in as administrator and deactivating my plugins, those thirty seconds included SSHing in to my server and running this: #making an in-server backup in folder … Continue reading →

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PJTrix.com’s Hack #1 – SSH tunneling for ultra-secure web app administration

Posted on July 18, 2006 by dreadpiratepj

At long last, here is the first PJTrix.com hack. It’s longer than most of my entries, so plan to read a while. Come back when you have the time if it interests you. Over the past few months, some friends … Continue reading →

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It’s down to the wire now, less than 1 hour to go

Posted on June 18, 2006 by dreadpiratepj

Well, I got about 50% of my planned features done. I’ll just keep correcting the layout till ten minutes to midnight, check in the last changes, and them I’m gonna crash till about noon tomorrow. My dad’s Father’s Day party … Continue reading →

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Less than eleven hours to go …

Posted on June 17, 2006 by dreadpiratepj

… and I need a nap. I’ll get an hour of shut eye, and have lunch when I get back up. It doesn’t look like I’ll get 70% of the functionality in by midnight. It may be more like 50%. … Continue reading →

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Breakfast time!

Posted on June 17, 2006 by dreadpiratepj

My stomach started hurting about 10 minutes ago. It could be from the coffee I had a few hours ago. But I think it’s just gastric juices from 10-11 hours without a meal (and that’s a guess. I don’t remember … Continue reading →

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It’s official … today is my own personal hell ;-)

Posted on June 17, 2006 by dreadpiratepj

My webmail app for Rails Day 2006 has the all-popular tagging capability (i.e. what GMail calls “labels”.) In the spirit of agile development, Rails has a plugin called acts_as_taggable, that lets developers add tagging to their applications without a whole … Continue reading →

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