Archive for June, 2007

Boxes, Boxes and Lots More Boxes

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

We got unloaded by the movers on Thursday and while we have the option to get them to unpack the large number of boxes, the movers and coordinator have all advised us that this can be overwhelming and hard to stay on top of.
So, that means that we are going to unpack and then call [...]

Relocation Complete . . . Almost

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

We closed on our new home and bad luck landed on our laps. After the signing and initialing of countless pages, we left the attorneys with keys anf a promise for the remaining garage door opener.
The seller appeared to be leaving the clearing out of his belongings till the very last minute (about the [...]

Homeless, though a bit richer

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Our sale of the Oxford property went through, even with a last minute hickup with the buyer’s agent not receiving detials of the home warranty that was purchased.
Wendy and I walked away with the check wondering if a multi-round-the-world airline ticket would be a better choice than the purchase of a new home.
Anyway, we are [...]

links for 2007-06-19

Monday, June 18th, 2007

http://viper.haque.net/~timeless/redbean/
Utilities to allow adding and removing when you are working off of a readonly CVS repository, but still need to perform those operations to supply patches.
(tags: cvs patch utilities)

Creating a patch – MDC
Page explaining how to run CVS patch commands, and it introduces the cvsdo command as well.
(tags: cvs patch utilities)

links for 2007-06-17

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

BBQ restaurant
BBQ restaurant chain in CT that has received rave reviews.
(tags: bbq)

links for 2007-06-15

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

InfoQ: “Real Options” Underlie Agile Practices
Article that provides a different way to evaluate risk and when to make decisions or commitments.
(tags: agile option articles)

links for 2007-06-07

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Video: RSS in Plain English | Common Craft – Social Design for the Web
Possible way to introduce RSS to the people who are ignorant of its uses and the concept itself.
(tags: aggregator aggregation howto feeds rss tutorial video)

O’Reilly Radar > Teach the Wiki Way
Video showing what a Wiki is to those that do not know.
(tags: [...]

links for 2007-06-06

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Movable Type 4.0 Beta Launches, Platform To Be Open Sourced
A popular blogging paltform going open source in their next release.
(tags: movabletype opensource sixapart blogging blog software)

Model Reviews: Best Practice or Process Smell?
Great article on reviews and their cost to an agile process.
(tags: agile modeling reviews)

links for 2007-06-03

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

USALUG: – Linux compatible scanner list.
List of Linux compatible scanners
(tags: scanners linux devices)