jamin on July 26th, 2003

You may have noticed (or not) that this website was defaced last night. I believe the defacers used a security hole in php-nuke. Fortunately the damage was minimal. The only thing lost was the most recent story where I gave the account of our float trip. I plan on upgrading php-nuke [...]

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jamin on July 26th, 2003

For the next book discussion, we’ll be reading Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis. The discussion will take place on Thursday, August 7th at 8pm. I think this is a book everyone will enjoy, so try to make it!

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jamin on July 17th, 2003

I’m leaving town tomorrow to go on a camping/float trip with Ryan, Molly, Dennis, Katie, Stephanie, Amy, and Troy. I’ll return on Sunday with pictures and blogging. Keep St. Louis warm for me while I’m gone. All I can think about right now is floating down the river, beer in one hand, [...]

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jamin on July 12th, 2003

I’ve added a block on the left side to display my reading list. The links point to Amazon.com.
I’ve also added a few new items to the quicklinks box on the right side to reflect additions to my interests over the past few months.

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jamin on July 12th, 2003

Mono now supports web services! This is something I’ve been eagerly waiting for.

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I wrote a little script to make it convenient to send cluepackets to dashboard. Read on to see the source.

dashboard-send:

#!/usr/bin/perl -lw
# Authors: Jamin P. Gray <jamin@pubcrawler.org>
# Purpose: Convenience script to send a cluepacket to Dashboard from
# the command line
use Getopt::Long;
use Dashboard;
Getopt::Long::Configure(”bundling”);
my @clues = ();
GetOptions(”frontend|f=s” => [...]

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jamin on July 8th, 2003

Nat Friedman, co-founder of Ximian has been working on this idea of his, Dashboard, for a while. At first he was just talking about it, then did some coding in Python, then Miguel convinced him that Mono would be the perfect platform for Dashboard, and about 8 or 9 days ago some code landed [...]

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jamin on July 7th, 2003

So we had a holiday to celebrate freedom and stuff. Mine went okay. I bought some patio furniture and torches Thursday night in preparation for the party Friday. (I’ve come to the conclusion that Summer is too expensive. I’ve spent over $400 in the last couple weeks on things related to [...]

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