I got word in late November that Linux Journal had accepted two more proposals for articles. The last acceptance (in mid November) was for an article to be published in issue 190 (Desktop) which I wrote and submitted without a proposal. The next two are for issues 191 (Systems Administrations) […]
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
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
1 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’ve gotten into the habit of skipping every other Fedora release since that lets me skip doing upgrades every year. I feel a little more productive that way. Most especially since I have lots of boxes at home doing special things (development, httpd staging, MythTV servers and frontends, etc). Well, […]
Fedora 9 upgrade but a GNOME downgrade
I downloaded Google’s Android SDK today. The kit is about 55MB for Linux and was a breeze to get running. The kit comes with an emulator that displays a generic phone with the Google UI. The majority of the online help is geared towards creating applications that run on Android. […]
Google’s Android – a first look
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
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
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
Rondam Ramblings: Top ten geek business myths is a blog from a guy named Ron Garret who's been there, done that, and wants the geeks of the world to know that the truth just aint what you think. I won't rehash the whole blog, but let me summarize: If you […]