Monday I updated The Company’s Movable Type blog platform to the latest (4.1 to 4.2). Problems galore in the installation, which had to be done manually, with permissions. It took a solid half hour. Then the real problems hit: missing redirects, broken search. We’re still hammering out the kinks.
Tonight I updated my WordPress blog [...]
You might be tempted to blow this post off because it’s about Photoshop and you don’t use Photoshop and probably never will. That would be a mistake, because in the “You Suck At Photoshop” series building technical skills is only tangential to the story.
The series starts like this:
All eight episodes are playing right now [...]
I’ve started using the shareware app Notepad++ for developing on my WinVista laptop, and it has a feature I’ve never run into before.
Version 2 of the Firefox web browser was released last month, and has some nice new features. I’ve been using FF for a couple of years now, and only use IE if I absolutely have to. It’s best feature in my opinion is the enhanced control and security you get. No popup hells, for example.
After [...]
OK, so it doesn’t suck so much. At least it didn’t after I ponied up $29.95 for custom installation and a month’s technical support. There’s nothing worse than having the ISP point their finger at the software vendor, and the software vendor pointing there’s right back at the ISP. What’s a webmaster to do? I [...]
In which the author bitches at length about a sucky product, after spending yet another two hours trying to get it to do something … anything … so I can finish this goddam project and get paid.
The Simple Dollar has a list of “30 Essential” pieces of free software for Windoze. Worth a look. Some obvious ones are there, such as Firefox and Thunderbird holding down the top two positions. But did you know that there are freeware programs that do what Quicken does? Also, links to GIMPShop (Photoshop), Gaim (instant [...]
A guy at a freelance gig I recently had showed me this package, and it’s very cool. It’s a nice package that contains Apache, MySQL, Perl, PHP, FTP and a sendmail clone, all in one easy-to-install file. I suppose it’s old-hat to a lot of techno types, but having been in a Windows-only hothouse for [...]
This is in many ways the scariest story of the year. The problem of insecure electronic voting machines has long been dismissed as the ravings of the tin-foil hat crowd; but it is going to be huge in the next few weeks, as RFK Jr.’s lawsuit proceeds and these new findings by computer scientists at Princeton gain an audience. Now even Fox News has run a story on it. Stay tuned.
A multi-day wrestling match with CubeCart finally ends. You can usually find the answer to a programming question on the net … the problem is figuring out what the right question is.
Earlier I’d complained about scattered documentation in this popular open-source package, so I’ve posted an article I hope will be helpful in negotiating one of the less-documented features, creating index (aka “hub”) pages. I was also driven to do this by the fact that it’s a major feature yet completely absent from the reference book [...]
Now coming to Iraq, the same great decision-making methods that were applied to the Space Shuttle Columbia.
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