My day was pretty productive for a first day at a new company. I arrived at the office in Westport shortly before nine. Started out by installing Fedora Core 1 on the PC that I’ll be using until my notebook arrives (probably Friday). Saw that FC1 ran nicely on my co-worker’s notebook [...]
Enjoyed celebrating another year of life for my friend. I’ll buy you some drinks in Kansas City this weekend.
“We are all born naked and screaming and if you’re lucky that sort of thing won’t stop there.”
And remember, birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
Okay, [...]
Just got home from seeing Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In various ways it reminded me of almost every one of my past relationships. What a true film.
Last night I met with the VistaWiz developers, otherwise known as the “whizzies”. It was a very informative meeting. I learned a bit about how embedded systems work including failover in the flash. We talked about our own Linux distribution based off Fedora init scripts and using the RPM package format. [...]
It’s things like this that show why I love Mono so much.
Quick transition for Windows developers to open source platforms such as Linux/GNOME
Migration path for existing C/C++ applications–you don’t have to port all the code at once, you can mix managed and unmanaged bits and pretty quickly create Mono bindings to your C-based [...]
Went to Road’s End last night to celebrate Adam’s new house. A good time was had by all.
It’s been an eventful week. I had the opportunity to meet Robb Beal in person on Sunday. He dropped by my pad and we talked for a couple hours about everything from the Linux Desktop, usability, music distribution, starting businesses, to good dining in St. Louis. He’s got some great insights. [...]
Today I accepted an offer from VistaWiz, a small internet security startup. My title will be Linux Application Developer and initially I’ll be doing some front-end work for their network appliance. I’ll miss the folks at BJC but I think this is a good opportunity for me. I’m excited.
I enjoyed reading Robb’s interview with Siracusa. John has some insights on the spatial finder, usability, and desktop linux. I also agree with Robb’s assessment:
He had some interesting comments on desktop Linux. I agree with him
that Linux needs a “group of smart, dedicated people in positions of
power who care about making a GUI [...]
