By barneyb on September 15, 2004
Amid the rush to get my presentation for the FB conference finished, I also started working on building me a little computer for the bar at our house. I'm planning to mount it inside a dead corner in the cabinets, and hang a monitor from the overhead cupboards, mounted with a super-slick fold-up hinge thing. Should be sweet, if I can find the time and tools to build the computer, and then fabricate all the hardware to put it up.
Once I get something built, I'll take a picture or three, and post them.
Posted in personal
By barneyb on August 12, 2004
The annual FuseBox Conference is coming up September 18 & 19. Once again, I will be attending. I'd hoped to go to CFUN as well, but that didn't work out. Should be an informative and enjoyable couple days, including the release of FB4.1, and the announcement of Team Fusebox (whatever that is ; ).
Posted in fusebox
By barneyb on August 9, 2004
I got an email from a user of PasswordSafe this morning saying that he'd made some very nice improvements to the project, and wanted to contribute them back to the code. A new encryption algorithm, some enhancements to the UI (tooltips and shortcut keys), a new icon set, and the ability to print out the data file.
The new encryption algorithm will create a version incompatibilty, and likely necessitate an export/import of the datafile when upgrading. However, that's a one-time cost. There will be at least one more version using the current (Blowfish-based) codebase that will add the ability to export to and import from a text file.
I'm going to start on the import/export functionality tonight (hopefully), so that should be coming out soon. Not sure when the new version will be released, but hopefully sooner than later, as I want the enhanced version for my own personal use as well.
Note, I actually have no idea if Raif (the other developer) is a he or a she, as the name isn't familiar to me. I've used "he" because it's one less character. Hopefully I don't offend. ; )
Posted in development
By barneyb on June 27, 2004
Long ago, on some lonely night, I wrote up a little display engine for showing the status of the various machines I control that run SETI@Home in a single place. Nothing fancy, but it worked. I took some time this evening to make the needed data files from all my machines available via the internet (rather than just my office and/or home networks), so that I could generate and expose the stats publicly. If you still want the official SETI@Home stats, there's a link on the page to go there. It's nothing new though; the "SETI@Home Data" table is actually generated base on data extracted from the official stats page.
Posted in personal
By barneyb on June 21, 2004
Once again, I'm attempting to become my own authoritative domain host. Hopefully, everything will go smoothly this time, now that the proper IPs are already floating around.
Posted in meta
By barneyb on June 9, 2004
JFission 0.2rc2 is out, and available for download. RC1 was intended to be the final form, minus any bug fixes, of the 0.2 release, but after testing and using RC1, two things became apparent:
jf:loop needed to be a full-fledged replacement for c:forEach- grouped query output is a really nice feature, even if it's not used a whole lot
As a result, the jf:loop tag in RC2 is quite different than it's RC1 counterpart. It adds support for the items, begin, end, and step attributes of c:forEach (though step was already there for index looping), as well as the ability to group iteration over recordsets by using the new groupBy attribute and multiple nested jf:loop tags.
0.2rc2 will be the final form of the 0.2 release (again minus bug fixes), regardless of any potential features that come up.
Posted in jfission
By barneyb on June 9, 2004
I mentioned in a post a while back that I'd switched from mod_rewrite/mod_proxy for connecting Apache with Tomcat, and I finally got around to updating the Site Architecture document to reflect those changes, so once again, it is an actual reflection of reality.
Posted in meta
By barneyb on May 27, 2004
The 0.2 release of JFission is imminent. A release candidate has been made available on the download page, and it will probably be renamed directly into the official 0.2 release. The online documentation and examples has been updated to reflect the changes and additions.
Posted in jfission
By barneyb on May 24, 2004
Well, I'm about to start the switch from connecting Apache and Tomcat with mod_rewrite to using mod_jk, which should yield much greater performance, as well has handle redirects properly (which mod_rewrite doesn't seem to, even with following the manual word for word). I'm also taking over mail and DNS hosting for all the domains that I control outside my company-related ones, so it'll all be here. The only thing that will stay third-party is the AccessoryOutfitters.com website, which I can't host, because it uses MS Access. Once JFission progresses a little bit more (need some file-management tags), I'll probably rewrite it with JSP so I can self host it, and get out of that last $20 a month.
Posted in meta
By barneyb on May 12, 2004
I finally got a mail server (SMTP and POP) running on here, using a really nice "toaster" from Bill Shupp. The Courier (IMAP server) doesn't seem to work, but I know little about IMAP, and I didn't plan on using it, so I didn't spend much time troubleshooting.
I can now officially be reached at barneybdocument.write('@');barneyb.com, where anything. It is my intention to NEVER let go of this domain, now that I've finally gotten ahold of it (some guy in Hong Kong has had it for the past few years), so that's the email address to keep track of.
Now I'm in the process of migrating all my various domains over, both for DNS and email. The web hosting will stay dispersed, as I can't offer ColdFusion nor Access, but such is life.
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