Writing



My previous posts on doing Fedora upgrades cover most of the topic but I realized there were a few things I left out. Installing additional applications The first thing has to do with some useful applications that Mauriat Miranda doesn’t cover on his excellent Fedora installation guidelines. xpdf – a […]

Upgrade addendum: other packages of interest, configuring a Wacom ...


I’ve added some slide presentations, with the help of Slideshare.net, to the Writings section. There is a presentation on using PmWiki for Project Management and a presentation on using WordPress as a CMS. I’ve also added a slide presentation on my book site on GIMP and Linux in Hollywood. Comments, […]

Online slide presentations



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Long ago I slid my way into the Linux world by attending and taking an active part in two different Linux user groups in Denver.  One of these is the Colorado Linux User Enthusiasts, or CLUE, which got its start in the south Denver metro area.  This group remains very […]

An (oral) introduction to Asterisk – BLUG 1/8/09


As the year grows to a close I find myself finishing up projects and preparing for the new year.  I put together roughly 90,000 lines of code this year on a single project with one other developer, probably split somewhere around 80/20.  It is, as I’ve told him, our boss […]

Top ten things I’ve learned about software development


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Migrations to new releases of Fedora are not a huge problem for me since I use a separate partition for system files (including repository managed packages) and separate partitions for home directories (/home), multimedia files (/store and /music), and web server root directories (also under /home).   About the only […]

Migrating a MythTV server from pre-Fedora 10 to Fedora 10





I finally finished the production edits for my next book, The Artist’s Guide to GIMP Effects.  Now the book is in copy edit.  I’ve received a sample chapter in final layout form.  Woohoo!  Although this is close, the book still has an April publication date.  I don’t know squat about […]

Status of my next GIMP book




The project I’m working on has a Java client that communicates with a JBOSS server. The client launches applications on the local host, communicates with them using XML and sends data from the applications back to the JBOSS server using JAX-RPC (via Axis, at the moment).  In order to manage […]

Learning to hate Java