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Archive for October, 2005

Bug/Patch-a-week challenge

I had breakfast with Jon Trowbridge (of Beagle fame) last weekend. One of the things we talked about was contributing to open source. It was a refreshing and eye-opening conversation. People want to contribute but don’t know where to start. There is this vast amount of software, plenty of bugs or […]

Speed blogging

I’m so backed up on things I wanted to say (again) I’ll just do another set of bullets.

We’ll be in New York City in early November. I’m going to Ad Tech and Dena is coming along. Hopefully we’ll have time for some fun touristy stuff and lots of picture-taking.
I discovered memcached last week […]

High performance mod_perl2

I’ve been spending a lot of time porting over some code from ASP.NET to mod_perl2. Along with that rewrite, I’ve been migrating a side business away from managed hosting running Windows 2003 to Linux. Between the porting and migrating, managing the clients and working to grow the business, I’ve had time for little […]

The Fridge


nautilus-wallpaper

I was chatting on irc and organizing my wallpaper when I realized that there was no way to set my background image directly through Nautilus. I cracked open Anjuta and got to work.
Here is the result: nautilus-wallpaper
I still need to wrap my brain around autoconf, automake, etc. I did manage to hack […]