The I.T. Life

I usually have quite a few side projects, and this year will be no different, except I plan to finish them all! (l0l). I am designing a new portfolio (should be done this week) that will allow you to update your home page, resume, etc, even the top level css all through a admin page. It will also allow you to manage mutiple portfolios through the same database and admin page (this will allow for very small secondary portfolios). This was well overdue but now I finally have some good reasons to do it. The second version will allow much easier editing of pages, without the need for html, but that will be later this year. After this I am going to finish my bookmark database site that is currently DOA, this will allow you to quickly login and bookmark a site for quick access anywhere, and also quick search through to find a site. This will also be seeing a version 2 later this year with features like bookmark exporting, and tag searching. Finally I will be starting this weekend a web + software application to organize all your cd / dvd / book’s. It will probably start with a very simple text list and a admin section for adding and removing, shortly after it will be linked into several external databases to get cover art, extra details etc. This will start with a database and .net app, and move into a web service, and website. Either way, I need to get to my real job now, designing pages for comedy central. Byes!

Ok, so, im a lazy and inventive person. Thus im a programmer (not a web designer, as my job may imply). So, instead of spending 15min reading my morning 8 or so web comics, i wrote a program that does it for me. Now, the version that I am uploading is not the most recent, however it is probably one of the best. It doesnt display the oversized comics of my choice, like ctrl-alt-del, and the outer circle, howver, it does display my 3 cell comics, and my 1 cell comics. I enjoy the program. I may finish the next version and get it to accept oversized comics, and make it work on sundays, however, for now, nobody needs to use my program on sunday, and, nobody needs to see oversized comics. Heres the link guys, check it out, tell me what ya think, and most of all, enjoy free software, ill be posting the code later, all my stuff is open source. However, it is under the beer license, meaning if you like it, and you ever meet me, you are obligated to buy me a beer, if you want. Its a nice open ended license, and it gets me free beer, asuming you like my program, meet me, and want to buy me beer. Yah, im gonna be getting lots of beer. Hey, maby I should put a section on www.jeffreyhann.com dedicated to my software, or just setup a section on The I.T. Life for my software. What do you guys think?

Ok, now just to make it even easier for you. The nice guys down at Firepages Created a preconfigured a suite called phpdev. It contains PHP, mysql, apache, and more all setup. Now this makes it easy. Check it out.

Finally, a good articly on setting up apache, php, perl, mysql, cgi, on a windows pc. Check this out, its the best way to test you web work befor the world does.

OK folks, heres a problem. If you click on the link you are forwarded to Microsofts website. Probably because the webstie i linked to doesnt like people linking to him. Oh well, go to http://www.ricocheting.com/server/
Copy and paste it in your browser and than lern about a server.

Now im sure we all are aware of the mac mini, and of shuttle pcs. However are you are aware of the other mini pcs. I love these little things, there sooo cute.
Tiny PCs