And I still can’t walk upright . . . Finally, I decided I was sick of the incompatabilities “modern” software has with OSX 10.4 -Tiger. Like a Rock Solid Visual basic 5 compiler, I threw it to the gutter and got myself a copy of Snow Leopard at a discount since it was an iLife09 […]
On December 30, 2010 I was able to install a working Zim wiki instance on OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard) on and Intel Mac. Here are the condensed steps. Total time to get up and running was just over 2 hours for me on a fresh OSX install. Install Macports for Snow Leopard per their instructions. […]
A recent discussion about backgrounds, a person asked me when I received my computer science degree. I said I never got one, that my college (which is very prestigious) did not have a CSci program back then, and we taught ourselves to code to carry out experiments and projects. And back then, just 20+ years […]
Dual Allegiance? To both the Freemen, and Duke Leto? It worked on Dune. And is a reality for a consultant in today’s modern world. Before writing this I searched and searched for quotes about dual allegiance and found nothing. Lots about fidelity, and loyalty — both ways. Oscar Wilde seems quite abhorred at allegiance. But […]
In the last few years of this tentative economy some of us have decided to “hunker down” and take FTEships. Others of us got laid off and went back to consulting. Some of us started companies, some of us stopped companies. Myself, I’ve been a consultant/contractor most of my career. Also, I have been an […]
I am typing this from a second generation Mac running an updated version of Tiger OSX (10.4.x). I have it beefed up, as much ram as I can put in (but due to bus architecture only uses 3.3 of the 4 gig of ram), a 360 gig hard drive. I haven’t upgraded to the newest […]
I don’t know how old you are or from whence you came but in the 1990’s a lot of us were using crazy tools that had nice WYSIWYG html designers in them like Visual Interdev, or Macromedia Homesite or Dreamweaver, or Frontpage or whatever. There weren’t many but in our little two-tiered world these were […]
When I had first started hearing about Agile practices, although they weren’t named that (usually XP) over 10 years ago there were some things that were scary, and some things that were cool. Pairing seemed scary and I wondered how long it would be until misapplication of that occurred. But the planning for a reasonable […]
Have you ever known someone like this? Maybe it was a child: “Well, I was making tomato soup and I saw the bananas sitting there, and thought they’ll just go to waste. So I sliced them up in the soup! Then, remembering I had some cheese and sausage and pickled herring left from that party […]