Category Archives: system.architecture

Really excited about WordPress 2.5 upgrade

Over on the WordPress Development Blog, they’re pimping the upcoming WordPress 2.5 and the release candidates process before final release, and it sounds awesome. It includes a boatload of new features, but my favorite has got to be one-click plugin … Continue reading

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Much Railing Lately

I’ve been at my new job only four weeks, and my first project is nearly finished. My task these past four weeks has been the re-implementation of the company’s website in Rails. I was to do this from scratch, while … Continue reading

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More like rakin’ in da dough …

It’s been two and a half weeks since I started my most recent freelancing software development project. Two and a half weeks of 20 hour days and seven day work weeks. Yep, if this project were to end today, I … Continue reading

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Bringin’ in da dough, baby!

Last Wednesday, I sent emails and résumés for various job posts, and by that afternoon, I started getting nibbles. It was weird! Whereas I barely got any attention for over a dozen job applications I sent out between September and … Continue reading

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Say what?!?

I receive some mailings from Sun every month. And for the most part, they are entertaining. As in laugh out loud hysterical. But this one takes the cake. Easier, faster, and more secure the Solaris 10 OS is the only … Continue reading

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Gearing up for an exciting 2007

In the months ahead, I will be making use of this weblog to discuss software development technologies and processes I’ve learned to use in my ten-year career. I will most likely be writing about web technologies and web services, and … Continue reading

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Progress and hair pulling

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

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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Lucky Strike

This past Monday, I started a new exciting, but short chapter in my self-employment. A few hours after I had posted my last entry, I received an email from a good friend down here in PR, asking if I was … Continue reading

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Working hard, hardly working …

Hello, gang. My two year old start up went belly up for lack of funds in February, and life has been interesting since, to say the least. It was an open source company/experiment, so the products we created are still … Continue reading

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