Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Relaxing Sunday with Hitchhiker’s Guide

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

I had a great weekend. Spending time in the park on Saturday, re-reading the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Saturday night and Sunday. Well I read more than just that specific book, some of the series. I couldn't ask for anything better. I even managed to get some of my ...

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, or AJAX

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

The more and more I work with AJAX, the more and more complicated things seem to get. Now this may be because it's being used in a rather complicated system, or it may be more because the architecture behind the application is more complicated than the application needs ...

Random web blog experiment

Monday, October 17th, 2005

In my desire to test the wordpress XML-RPC, which by the way is very poorly documented on the wordpress site and sister sites, I've implemented an autonomous blog. The DNS will resolve to random.dragonslife.org, but for now the link is at http://www.dragonslife.org/random. This is currently a screen scrape of ...

xemacs and folding fun

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

I don't know why this proved difficult, but code folding in xemacs/emacs was not as simple to setup as I had imagined. I started off by searching for an xemacs folding package with emerge. After this came up empty, I started scouring the web for emacs related information. I came ...

Gentoo Network Issues on new install

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

I setup Gentoo from a Stage 2 install today on a new dedicated server for my company. Doing this off of a CD that someone boots things up for you, with no other documentation isn't the easiest thing in the world. You have to be certain of all ...