On the way from the hotel to the restaurant for supper tonight, Tim took Josh and I on a short walking tour of what I called "art bars" - two very cool bars/clubs that were one part bar, one part art gallery. Very interesting stuff. Then, to Osha (a Thai restaurant, coincidentally themed inside... »
I got the chance to play with debugging a running WebObjects app today, with the added fun of having a roomful of 20 users of the app taking turns to mention "did you know that isn't working?" Long story short, if you need to get the status of threads of a running WebObjects app,... »
Update: I made a Flickr Album for photos from this trip. Had a really good first day of meetings. We had a quick lunch on the 36th floor of the Grand Hyatt, overlooking the awesome skyline of San Francisco. Then we got into the recap of the last 2 years, and touched base. Then, we packed... »
This morning before the meeting started, I took a quick sprinting shopping spree through Macy's and then to the Apple Store. Played with the new video iPods. Oh my f#cking god. How can they make something so obviously incredible? I must have one. Oh, yeah. Cash... Where was I going with this? Oh, yeah. I... »
This is the one where I rant/vent about my flight down. I'm blogging this from 30,000' for therapeutic reasons... It wasn't a bad trip down at all, and I'm seriously not complaining about being sent to San Francisco for a couple of days of meetings, but man some people are just ignorant enough to... »
I'm heading down to San Franshisky for a couple of days to take part in the Pachyderm Project Year 2 Wrap-Up meetings/training/gathering at SFMOMA. I'll be sitting in meetings during the day, trying to take a photo or two of the area in between, and working on some projects with deadlines this week during... »
I grabbed a copy of Joomla the other day, to play around with another option for a CMS to use for projects at the Learning Commons. Some early thoughts: The admin UI seems very well done - but man, is there a lot of stuff in there. Not sure I'd want to unleash that interface... »
Just installing Mambo for a demo of various CMS options to the team tomorrow. The Mambo 4.5.2.3 installer borked while creating a table, choking on a missing default value for "rating_sum". Easy fix. Line 221 of mambo/installation/sql/mambo.sql is dealing with setting up the content_rating table. Modify the sql thusly: `rating_sum` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL... »
I wanted to update my Archives page to display the total tag count, but didn't see a built-in method in Ultimate Tag Warrior to do that. So, here's the recipe I followed - mimicking how the other methods are set up, in case the changes get rolled into the main distro... In ultimate-tag-warrior.php: function UTW_ShowUniqueTagCount() { global... »
This morning, I saw that James Farmers' Edublogs service is being banned in Australia. Censored. Blocked. Verboten. It irked me, and has been bugging me all day. Now, Brian just posted about it, and I realize I need to publicly demonstrate some form of outrage at this. It's not enough to quietly grumble, or... »
