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Archive for January, 2006

BarCamp: My XSL:FO Presentation

Here’s an upload of my XSL:FO Presentation and sample code, per request.

Saturday, January 28th, 2006. Posted in XML, XSL:FO | 1 Comment »>

BarCamp: Pic

Looks like I made the first photo page from BarCamp.

Saturday, January 28th, 2006. Posted in BarCamp | No Comments »>

BarCamp is on

I’m at BarCamp. My presentation on XSL:FO went well. Lots of good topics coming up for the afternoon. Sweet!

Saturday, January 28th, 2006. Posted in BarCamp | No Comments »>

OS X Tiger Server: open alternate SMTP port

If your mail server serves mobile or remote clients, you will probably run into the “port 25 block” problem that is sweeping the ISPs of the nation. To make life easier for my mobile users, I opened as second SMTP listener on an alternate port that will not get blocked, and configured their email [...]

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006. Posted in Mac OS X Server | 1 Comment »>

OS X Tiger Server: Improving SpamAssassin

Tiger Server comes with SpamAssassin (3.0.1), which can be enabled on Mail services via the “Scan email for junk mail” checkbox in ServerAdmin. SpamAssassin is actually called by AMaVis as a postfix filter when receiving/sending mail.
The default installation leaves something to be desired, however. He’s a few tips I’ve culled from different places [...]

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006. Posted in Mac OS X Server | 4 Comments »>

Lazy Sunday, revisited

Ok, I have to admit to being a huge fan of the SNL Lazy Sunday video. And, amazingly, seeing it remade with two 5th graders is just as funny.

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006. Posted in TV | No Comments »>

Java on Intel Macs

I haven’t heard anyone mention the fact that in addition to the already Universal apps that have been released, it appears that Java-based apps will also see an immediate benefit from the speed boost on the new Intel Macs. That’s the word on the Servoy boards, which is a pretty large-scale Swing UI java [...]

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Rails: acts_as_taggable UI option

There’s a gem for Ruby on Rails to easily implement “taggable” records, called acts_as_taggable. I’ve implemented in on Tickets in the trouble ticket handling system I’m working on.
I did some searching (limited) but didn’t find a whole of lot info on the types of UIs people were using for acts_as_taggable records, so I came [...]

Friday, January 13th, 2006. Posted in Ruby on Rails, Technology | 1 Comment »>

MacBook Pro

Yep, it’s real now. The Powerbook I’ve been dreaming about. I followed the keynote via the news sites and started drooling at the simple textual representation of the news, detailed specs unseen.
Mind you, I’m not yet on the order list. I’m not in that big a rush. I give it a [...]

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006. Posted in Technology | 3 Comments »>

Steve Jobs show

Another big new episode of the Steve Jobs show today. I just love that show. I’m not even sure I care what he announces, it’s always fun anyway!

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Pandora

Pandora is the best music-related technology I’ve run into in a long time. Simply put, it’s custom streaming radio based on your musical tastes. Doesn’t sound that revolutionary, but the “Music Genome” project underneath it does a really good job of coming up with new music that fits your tastes, based on seed [...]

Monday, January 9th, 2006. Posted in Music, Technology | No Comments »>

Jon Kulp: Conciones para ninos

On a note tangentially related to my previous post regarding the Library of Congress, my friend Jon Kulp, whom was the other “fellow” in the Music Division when I was was there, has released a set of MP3s of new recordings of one of his song-cycles. It’s an excellent performance of some quite beautiful [...]

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006. Posted in Family and Friends, Music | No Comments »>