Category: Software

  • MySQL Meetup 2006/05/01

    Hannah, Scarlet and I attended the Seattle Meetup, since we heard Arjen was planning on being in town. We went to the normal location, but the owner told me they were closed due to their entire staff being involved in the civil rights march. We arrived to a table full of the regulars. Breadsticks, pizza,…

  • GUI Service Management App in Mono

    On Saturday at LinuxFest NorthWest, I was approached by someone named Paul who was intererested in writing graphical applications to execute common tasks. I asked for an example, and he mentioned service management of for instance, apache and bind. So we wrote a small mono app using Glade as the interface designer. http://colliertech.org/svn/admin/ServiceTool/ Here is…

  • YAPC::NA

  • Anybody need some cycles on a sun machine?

    Hey you mono folks. Yeah, you. You know who I’m talking about. Do you need some cycles on a sun machine to run build tests?

  • Is gtkglarea-sharp ready for production?

    I don’t know. Probably not quite yet. But there has been interest using the toolkit in a production video game. Fun. But what do you all think?

  • Have I mentioned Perl yet? No…

    I write and enjoy Perl. If you want to know how to write Perl, let me know, and I’ll try to schedule some time to learn you what I know…

  • libtao-opengl-cil has been packaged for Dapper!

    Wow! lurfagrin made my tao dist packages into .deb packages! http://colliertech.com/downloads/tao/ If you’re running Ubuntu Dapper Drake, you can install libtao-opengl-cil using this command: $ sudo apt-get install libtao-opengl-cil This is one of the pre-requisites to building gtkglarea-sharp. Thank you thank you thank you!

  • Sun server… incoming…

    Holy crap. Sun is sending me hardware for a try-n-buy thing. They say they’ll ship it in about 10 days. I wonder how disappointed they’re going to be when I wipe the OS they ship with it and install Sarge… Thanks to Ask for the tip. Now… how am I going to make this thing…

  • 150 million and counting! | Spread Firefox

    150 million and counting! | Spread Firefox Over 150 Million downloads of my homies’ web browser. You should download it, too.

  • Rearranging blogs: EWN, Mono, poli-discuss, work

    I’m re-organizing my various blogs to this one. WordPress can syndicate categories. So I’m adding a category for each of the blogs I keep. Except for LiveJournal. I’ve got lots of posts there, and there’s no way (as far as I know) to copy all of them to this one. Plus, I like Brad and…