Archive for October, 2006

Project Management Tutorial Part 1, Planning and Design

Luckily/Sadly, there is no pressure for me to complete this on any timeframe, and it’s secondary to the rest of my work, which is far more important. However, a nice diversion is always in order, and helps get my mojo back into my regular programming work. Read on for the rest of this…

Posted: October 30th, 2006 under Firefox, Ruby on Rails, Tutorial Series, Tutorials, XUL, XulRunner.
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FreeBSD woes, back to Rails, project management

Trying to install FreeBSD on my main computer, thanks in part to a new 500gb hard drive replacing my old 90gb hard drive(woo hoo!), I get “BTX Halted” over and over again. Nothing else. I’ve tried i386 and amd64 builds(I’m on amd64 but it was a recommended fix) as well as disabling the DMA on […]

Posted: October 30th, 2006 under FreeBSD, Ruby on Rails.
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Quick Update

Not that I post that often, really, but here’s a quick update. I’ve been consumer by work and a recent death in the family.
First of all, for all you locals, there’s a project to create a Haunted House in Deep Ellum. I posted the MySpace bulletin on my Dallas Halloween blog page.
Secondly, Firefox 2 is […]

Posted: October 9th, 2006 under Firefox, FreeBSD, XUL, XulRunner.
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MySQLsla

So, going way off topic here, I was worried about some slow SQL queries, and, logs being mighty useless, I looked for a slow-sql log analyzer. In steps mysqlsla. Woo hoo, plain, simple, and to the point. Found out some weird queries that I can’t even find with a simple grep are some of the […]

Posted: October 6th, 2006 under PHP.
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