Yearly Archives: 2004

I guess it’s okay to say this now since they officially announced yesterday, but my new writing gig will be with Tux Magazine, the new magazine being put out by Linux Journal. I’m about 3/4 complete on my first article for the magazine, but the first issue isn’t due out […]

New gig: Tux Magazine

Wed November 17, 2004 in General / Linux / Writing tagged Linux / linux journal / Writing (updated 7470 days ago)

I’ve hit a couple of snags in trying to do various types of upgrades. The first is related to upgrading, or rather porting, my GTK+ software from 1.2 to 2.x. The second is in upgrading my laptop at work from RH9 to Fedora.

Who said upgrading wouldn’t be hard?

Wed November 17, 2004 in General / Linux tagged Fedora / GIMP / gnome / graphics / GTK+ / kde / rpm / Wordpress / xnotesplus (updated 7470 days ago)

Iâ€™ve add the code to xn-todos.c to handle categories created in XNotes but unknown on the Pilot. Itâ€™s pretty straight forward and follows the design spelled out on the Wiki. I doubt Iâ€™ll have much problem with it unless the notes get too large for the Pilot – is there […]

XNotesPlus – pilot support for unknown categories

Wed November 17, 2004 in Linux tagged pmwiki / ximba / xnotesplus

I discovered some bugs with the web site I did for my wife’s client when viewed in IE. No big suprise there, except I thought I had checked that. Problem was I’d forgotten I’d already migrated my wife and daughter to firefox to get rid of all that crap that […]

More web design for fun and profit.

Mon November 15, 2004 in Art and Graphics

The generic.c module has been udpated to process menu bars along with button bars. It’s now in use with the CVS version of the Todo Manager. The Todo Manager also now has the Category Editor enabled. The editor can modify the categories for the current manager (only Todos are using […]

XNotesPlus – modifying categories

Mon November 15, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged xnotesplus

Iâ€™ve been looking for something like â€œlargestâ€ for some time now. â€œLargestâ€ was a command line tool, for Solaris I believe, that would tell you which were the top 10 largest files on a system. I could easily write a tool like that but I knew someone would have already […]

Cool Tool of the Day: Filelight

Wed November 10, 2004 in General / Software Development tagged Wordpress / ximba (updated 7476 days ago)

Chocolate Fountain Creations is now online. This is the web site I rewrote for a client of my wife’s. The original site was down with some template generator and looked awful. It simply wasn’t designed with the clients product focus or intended audience in mind. It took about 8 hours […]

One project down…

Mon November 08, 2004 in Art and Graphics / Software Development (updated 7478 days ago)

The LXF article for this month – part 2 of a doing Galleries with GIMP and PHP – was pushed out this past weekend. It came out quite good, I think. I was fairly impressed with its clarity while not being overly technical. It will definitely benefit from my new […]

LXF pushed, new gig in progress…

Mon November 08, 2004 in Writing tagged GIMP / xnotesplus (updated 7478 days ago)

I’m setting up a section on XEUS to post source and examples from articles I write for magazines. I wanted to make it somewhat automated so I didn’t have to regen pages for each article. I just wanted to drop a tarball in someplace and let my system take care […]

Mod Rewrite rules

Mon November 08, 2004 in Linux / Software Development tagged Writing (updated 7478 days ago)

I’ve agreed to do my first commercial web site outside of my own and my wife’s. She has a customer with a small business providing chocolate fountains for parties. She also just happens to live just down the street. Anyway, someone else in the neighborhood did her web site but […]

Web design for fun and profit

Sun November 07, 2004 in Art and Graphics (updated 7479 days ago)

Kerry just conceded the election. I’ve lost hope for this country. Neo-conservative views abound, and all that will do is lead to the same problems they have in the Balkans, in the Middle East, and Africa. I’m ashamed of my country and am no longer proud to be called an […]

The end is nigh.

Wed November 03, 2004 in General / Politics tagged Lost

My daughter taught us a new slang term the other day: The Hoodlands. That’s the nickname the kids have given to the area we live in, known more commonly as The Woodlands which is a northern Houston suburb. I’m not clear on why the kids call it that, though my […]

Hiding in the Hoodlands

Sat October 30, 2004 in Politics tagged Video (updated 7487 days ago)

Michael J. Hammel

Building a better today…because tomorrow is in question…