Yearly Archives: 2006

There is a lot of information on the net about using WordPress as a CMS (content management system), in other words using WP as the foundation for a regular (non-blog) website. But that information is kind of spread out and not completely clear on the process required. Fortunately, it’s very […]

Using WordPress as a CMS: making e-Commerce Lite work on ...

Tue December 12, 2006 in Wordpress tagged Fedora / Linux / linux format / lwn / rpm / Wordpress (updated 6358 days ago)

I just got word that my book is now planned for a March 30th post to the printer. I don’t know if that constitutes “publication” date, but it’s close enough for me. I guess I’ll be opening the book’s companion site the first of March then, unless I find out […]

GIMP Book: publication date set for 3/30

Tue December 12, 2006 in GIMP tagged GIMP

USTA investing millions in The Tennis Channel Well, this just sucks. My family is big into playing and watching tennis. My daughter is a state high school champ. We love watching the US Open, the French Open, the Australian Open and Wimbledon, along with any other tournaments we’re lucky enough […]

USTA investing millions in The Tennis Channel

Tue December 12, 2006 in General / sports tagged sports

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

Wed November 22, 2006 in GIMP tagged GIMP / lwn / Writing (updated 6378 days ago)

There are a lot of examples of writing a simple JNI library for calling from a Java class. Unfortunately, few of them explain how to push your JNI class/loadable library into a package of it’s own. I ran into this problem today while trying to integrate a JNI library I’d […]

Working with JNI

Wed November 22, 2006 in Software Development tagged java / jni / Linux / Writing (updated 6378 days ago)

Ballmer: Linux “Infringes our intellectual property” | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com If I may speak for Linux users everywhere: Hey Ballmer. Bite me.You’ll stop me from using Linux when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. You’re IP is a (to quote another moron) "non-starter". There are those of […]

Ballmer: Linux â€œInfringes our intellectual propertyâ€ | Hardware 2.0 | ...

Fri November 17, 2006 in Linux tagged intel / Linux

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

Fri November 17, 2006 in Software Development tagged java / jni / Writing (updated 6382 days ago)

I’m working on a Java project at work that has a TCP-based server component that accepts XML messages from clients. I implemented an XML handler that I pass to the SAXParser class that takes the XML as an input stream. The client sends the XML message and then waits for […]

Discovery of the TCP Half-Close

Wed November 15, 2006 in Linux / Software Development tagged java (updated 6382 days ago)

Just thought I’d give a plug to this very cool Firefox plugin. It provides browser side blog editing and automated submission. What it does is provide an editing area (with minimal highlighting and formatting, but sufficient for quick posts, plus HTML editing mode) in your browser without having to log […]

WordPress plugin: Performancing

Wed November 15, 2006 in Wordpress tagged Wordpress (updated 6385 days ago)

Let's face it: the old GIMP Gallery was the ugliest hack of PHP knonw to mankind. Hey, I was fiddling. I couldn't find a good gallery product so I wrote my own. Well, I finally found one that works under WordPress . It's called PhotoShow. Very slick and easy […]

GIMP Gallery moved inside of the blog.

Sat October 21, 2006 in Art and Graphics / GIMP / Wordpress tagged GIMP / graphics / Wordpress

Adobe released the Flash Player 9 plugin for Linux this week. I downloaded it and tried it under identical software configs (FC5 & Firefox 1.5.0.7) on two different machines. I tried viewing my two favorite sites that contain Flash content: ABC's Lost and SciFi.com's Battlestar Galactica . With the old […]

No joy with Flash Player 9 Beta under Fedora Core ...

Sat October 21, 2006 in Art and Graphics / Linux tagged Fedora / Linux / Lost (updated 6410 days ago)

I was working on my Dept 56 pages when I discovered that all child pages of a top level page would be displayed in the sidebar. I don't really want that. I want child pages to be linked from the top level page only. That way the hierarchy isn't stuffed […]

WordPress hack: disabling showing page children

Thu October 19, 2006 in Wordpress tagged dept 56 / Wordpress

Michael J. Hammel

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