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Gearing up for an exciting 2007

In the months ahead, I will be making use of this weblog to discuss software development technologies and processes I’ve learned to use in my ten-year career. I will most likely be writing about web technologies and web services, and … Continue reading

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Last blog post for 2006

Happy New Year, everybody! It’s five and a half hours to the big hour here at Chez PJ, so I am taking this time to update you all about what’s going on. Last weekend, I finally got Trac and Subversion … Continue reading

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Progress and hair pulling

Through the magic of social networking site LinkedIn, a friend of a friend introduced me to a friend. This friend is looking for a technical writer for a website with a geek audience interested in open source, Linux, web technologies, … Continue reading

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GoDaddy server woes

I want to openly distribute to the interwebs various pieces of software, some that I’ve already developed, and some that I am in the process of developing. And I’d like to grow a developer and user community around this software … Continue reading

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A look back before going forward

This last Thursday, December 7, I finished my latest paying consulting gig. And I have nothing lined up for the next few weeks. This will give me time to do a few things I had planned for pjtrix.com and my … Continue reading

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PJTrix.com’s Hack #1 – SSH tunneling for ultra-secure web app administration

At long last, here is the first PJTrix.com hack. It’s longer than most of my entries, so plan to read a while. Come back when you have the time if it interests you. Over the past few months, some friends … Continue reading

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It’s down to the wire now, less than 1 hour to go

Well, I got about 50% of my planned features done. I’ll just keep correcting the layout till ten minutes to midnight, check in the last changes, and them I’m gonna crash till about noon tomorrow. My dad’s Father’s Day party … Continue reading

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Less than eleven hours to go …

… and I need a nap. I’ll get an hour of shut eye, and have lunch when I get back up. It doesn’t look like I’ll get 70% of the functionality in by midnight. It may be more like 50%. … Continue reading

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Breakfast time!

My stomach started hurting about 10 minutes ago. It could be from the coffee I had a few hours ago. But I think it’s just gastric juices from 10-11 hours without a meal (and that’s a guess. I don’t remember … Continue reading

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It’s official … today is my own personal hell ;-)

My webmail app for Rails Day 2006 has the all-popular tagging capability (i.e. what GMail calls “labels”.) In the spirit of agile development, Rails has a plugin called acts_as_taggable, that lets developers add tagging to their applications without a whole … Continue reading

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