SubscribeI just couldn’t deal with Mephisto anymore. It isn’t ready for prime time and really needs some work before it will be. I was hoping it would be a good rails app so I could tinker, but I don’t have that much time. Both from a blog and site standpoint, WordPress runs circles around Mephisto. [...]
Greg Benedict
Thoughts on the web and creativity.
I Will Comply
I finally picked up a copy of Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot today. Over the weekend I caught the tail end of a special on them that was filmed during the making of the album. What I heard and saw were oddly interesting. My old boss Peter McCormick, one of the co-owners of ExactTarget, was a [...]
The 12 Types of Clients
Here’s a great little read from Freelance Switch on the different types of clients out there. I often think about the types of clients TGFI has and the balance that we keep among them. It’s good to have a bit of everything to keep you honest to the world. Trust me, we do. http://freelanceswitch.com/clients/12-breeds-of-client-and-how-to-work-with-them/
Good vs. Evil Foosball
This brings back the days when we worked at Sapheo and were foos-a-holics. Jason had put Molly’s picture on the goalie. http://www.notcot.com/archives/2007/04/good_vs_evil_fo.php
Virtual Server Linux Additions
I added the VM additions for linux to our CentOS 4.4 box today. The install was easy as the RPMs worked great. It did appear to help speed things up. The speedy system clock was my main motivation for installing the additions, though. The system clock runs about 25% faster than it should on our [...]
Random Numbers in Ruby
I was working on a project for Nexpointe and needed to grab a random number, 1-5 to rotate between images. It was much easier than expected. imageNum = rand(5) + 1 There’s no instantiation of objects. It doesn’t take 5 lines. It just does it. Ruby – It’s what I always wished ASP would be.
Stop Motion Music
This is some unbelievable talent in the editing room. His timing is incredible.
The Elusive Power Plug
Why is it when you go to a Panera or Starbucks that you can never find a place to plug in? I’m at a rather large Panera and there are only 2 places to plug in, both of which are in the same corner of the restaraunt. One is sandwiched between a chair and a [...]
Playing With Mephisto
This has been a really intense afternoon. I got Mephisto up and running on a new CentOS 4.4 box I installed on our Virtual Server today. Well, sort of. The admin tool worked great, no issues at all. But the front end did not have a default page. If I went to preview a post [...]