Jeremy Durham

Alright people, so I’m trying something a bit different. I’ve scraped Wordpress. I haven’t moved on to Typo yet, I’m somewhere in between.

A lot of stuff is broken. There is no RSS (yet). There is no commenting (yet). By the time the DNS has propogated I should have everything in half working order. If something doesn’t work, Tell me.

Thanks!

About a month ago I noticed that the primary developer of Khronos had stopped developing it. I had enjoyed using Khronos when I was originally introduced to it, but found that there were a few things that simply made it unusable, for me. So, I contacted them and offered to continue it, not just for me but because I knew out there, there had to be someone else who liked using it. I hope I’m right.

If you’re one of those people, look for a new release within the next few days. If you’ve never used Khronos, you may want to give it a try.

Khronos has a new website. We’ve cleaned up a few of the little irritating things like not being able to edit a session when it’s running, as well as some visual elements in the interface. The previous developer also took care of a few of the other outstanding enhancements, such as allowing people to export data to a human readable format and import it back in.

Debugging AJAX can be a pain. Watch the logs, click a link or type in some text, find the error, and figure out what the problem is. It’s even worse with evaluate_remote_response, because then you have to worry about the page your eval’ing working correctly also.

Firebug to the rescue! Install this great extension for Firefox and watch your XMLHTTPRequests via the firebug area.

NOTE: Be sure to turn on the XMLHTTPRequest spy; it’s off by default

Get it here

One of the things I really missed on the Mac was virtual desktops. I mean, real, separate, virtual desktops, and the ability to alt-tab to only the applications on that desktop (I know I have locomotive running, I know I have other things running, I don’t want to see them whenever I alt-tab). A while ago, I stopped using Witch because I didn’t need to select a specific window in an application THAT often. Turns out Witch is Virtue aware, and only shows the applications on the virtual desktop I am looking at, without cluttering it up with the applications I don’t need to access very often.

Don’t know why I ended up on Yahoo’s homepage, but this was a strange sight.

One of the things I miss about My last gig is the day-to-day interaction with servers. I feel like I’m missing out a lot when big server moves happen because I’m no longer deploying my applications to a server that requires my configuration, and so I kinda just “take what I get”.

On that note, I’ve moved to a VPS running Gentoo (I’m a Debian guy) to get familiar with Gentoo as well as get back to configuring and running things the way I want.

For the longest time I complained about the Mac terminal not being keyboard friendly. Home inserted ~ instead of going to the beginning of the line, all that junk. While on one of my rants, someone told me that emacs commands work in terminal (I do not know emacs what-so-ever). Apparently, Control A goes to the beginning of the line, Control E goes to the end, and Control K deletes to the end of the line. Control XU undos. Not half bad!

Eons…

A big shout out to all of the people who made the Eons launch possible! I’ve been honored to be on a really great team with a lot of excellent people. Check us out at Eons, we’re going to do some great things.