May 1, 2005
This year I ran the Sporting Life 10k for the second time, besting last year’s time of 56:12 with a time of 49:28. My goal this year was to achieve a time of less than fifty minutes, which was accomplished only because I sprinted to the finish line after … Read more
Mar 30, 2005
If you find yourself at Hyperion’s Solutions 2005 in New Orleans next month be sure to check out my friend Jenever Springer’s presentation on “Creating a Financial Reporting Environment with Hyperion Essbase”. Do your best, Google!
Nov 11, 2004
If your application is logging events to a file, chances are that you often find yourself using tail to monitor that file. If you are using a logging library, chances are that your logging events are classified in differing orders of severity. Wouldn’t it be nice to make severe errors readily apparent? … Read more
Oct 6, 2004
Jim Monroe, author of Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask, Angry Young Spaceman, Everyone in Silico and An Opening Act of Unspeakable Evil is in the process of switching over to Linux:
With Windows I would assume the problem was me — my settings, my hardware, whatever — … Read more
Sep 29, 2004
My site has been down for the past few months, first because of a failed power supply and then because of a damaged irrecoverable hard drive. The last backup I made was over a year ago, hence the ancient entries you see below. Everything since September 1st, 2003 is now gone, including all my email … Read more
In this post, Jeremy Keith of Adactio argues for a new approach in web design; one which isn’t about pixel perfection but more about proportion perfection. Keith goes on to describe methods to achieve response enhancement, both on modern browsers and browsers which don’t support new features which make the technique easier to implement.
Apparently I’m not the only one who gets frustrated when pages featuring events don’t contain links to add the event to one’s calendar. Jeremy Keith of Adactio makes the case that web design should not be fixed, but fluid and responsive to both how a page is viewed (eg. mobile) and what is contained on … Read more