We went for Stacy’s 5 month sonogram last Friday and found out we are having a boy. Now we can really get a name picked out.
Monthly Archives: March 2007
I’m Now a Commenter on Lifehacker!
27 Mar 07
I have loved Lifehacker from my first visit about a year ago. Their content and authors are great. The articles are useful for Mac, Linux and Windows users alike. I always wanted to be a commenter but never took the time to “audition” to become one. Well last night I found my opportunity to try out on their article on “How to mount a Windows shared folder on your Mac” and was accepted.
My method is similar to Snorbalp’s. I wrote an AppleScript, saved it as an application and added it to my login items. Once you login and run the script, you can add the password to keychain.
mount volume “cifs://WORKGROUP;username@MACHINENAME/SHARENAME”
John Resig on Testing Prototype With Firefox 3
20 Mar 07
John Resig of jQuery and Mozilla fame, has posted a follow up to his post on future-proofing JavaScript libraries with a post on testing Prototype with Firefox 3. Mozilla is working to include popular JavaScript library test suites directly inside the Mozilla test system. This is another great step in the right direction for an already amazing browser, developers, and JavaScript Libraries.
Project Management - Basecamp, activeCollab, and Goplan
18 Mar 07
Derek Punsalan of 5thirtyOne has posted a great write-up on the differences and advantages in three online project management and collaboration tools. The article lays out the options for Basecamp, activeCollab, and Goplan.
My project list is not quite big enough yet to pay for a project manager service. However, I do have enough projects (between home and my day job) that Basecamp’s free plan was not enough. So, activeCollab was the best solution for my project management. I installed and stated using it about 3 weeks ago. Without the current need to collaborate with other companies / teams activeCollab works for me.
Building Your Own DVR and Media Center Without the Cost of Vista
17 Mar 07
This past July, I rebuilt an older PC as a media center. The machine now resides in my entertainment center as an entertainment hub and file server, storing all of my music, videos and pictures.
My Media Center PC sports a P4 2.0 GHz processor, 1 G of RAM, 550 GB of storage, a Hauppauge TV tuner and a ATI All-In-Wonder 9600. It is currently running on Windows XP Media Center Edition. I must have done something right in building the machine; it’s been running well for the last 24 days without a reboot.
I am quit happy with the machine right now, aside from the noise if nothing else is on. However, Lifehacker (one of my favorite reads) has posted an tour on rolling your own DVR and media server with MediaPortal.
WordPress Adds Plugin Directory to WordPress.Org
15 Mar 07
Now all of the WordPress plugins that are used to extend and enhance our blogs can be found in once centralized location. The new WordPress Plugins Directory. This will be great for both the users and developers of the incredible WordPress application.
Decrease WordPress Blog Load Times With WP-Cache!
14 Mar 07
I have been tinkering with various WordPress Plugins to improve the site. I have been very impressed with WP-Cache 2.0. Enabling the plugin increase the speed of the site tremendously. Site load times went from and 3.17s to 0.56s.
WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file rather than loading and compiling the whole PHP code and then building the page from the database. WP-Cache allows to serve hundred of times more pages per second, and to reduce the response time from several tenths of seconds to less than a millisecond.
