A Cajun-Asian View

I don't remember if I took part in last year's A List Apart survey, but I definitely took it this year. If your employment involves designing and building websites, please take this year's survey from A List Apart.

A List Apart has an article about using Subversion to help with collaboration, especially with contract workers. Though there are some superior version control systems mentioned in the comments, like git, mercurial, or bazaar, they don not have the client support that Subversion has as of now. I especially use the Subclipse plugin for Eclipse for my work and checking code in and out of Subversion is a quick right-click away.

More importantly, how much client support for Subversion there is makes it easier to get other developers on board using it1.

1. 1. Yes, most developers I work with try to do as little as possible on the command line...

I wouldn't mind getting this. Nope. Not at all.

Do want!

But no "This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you're my only hope." scene? Bah.

Still, it's only $2,900.00...

You can also get a webcam R2D2 for $400.00, instead...

According to the Daily Advertiser, LUS has announced their roll-out plan. Here's what looks to be the roll-out map:

Looks like where I'm living in is in the Phase I area. Can't wait till I can get it!

UPDATE: Of course, John St. Julien has more info...

Buildout map for LUS fiber optics plan. Retrieved from the Daily Advertiser.

I applied the liquid resize Gimp plugin to the original 2816 x 2112 picture of me playing my electric guitar and told it to simply resize the pic to 800 x 200 and this was the result. Of course, the picture was probably too busy for the algorithm to figure out how it should approach this, and I gave it no guidelines as to what to preserve. Nonetheless, a very cool effect. I'll have to play with it with some more suitable pictures and when I get more time.

Thanks to Shamus Young and his commentors for directing me to this plugin. Watch the video there to see what the technology is actually supposed to do.

There's apparently also a Photoshop plugin available.

As someone who just upgraded his laptop to Ubuntu 7.10, primarily used Ubuntu linux as my primary desktop O.S. since Dapper was in beta, and utilized Linux O.S. since 1998 as a server, the following quote from Rupert Goodwins blog really says it for me1:

Then how come I'm so much more at home with Ubuntu than Vista? It boils down to one abiding impression: Ubuntu goes out of its way to get out of your way, even if it doesn't succeed all the time. Vista goes out of its way to be Vista and enforce the Vista way. You must conform regardless of the implications.

1. 1. Granted, I have limited experiences with Windows Vista, mainly playing with it on a friend's computer. But the quote still highlights what is an important different between close source and open source software are to me in general.

I really should make my way out to the meetings for this group. Even if I don't work directly with Adobe's products, getting my toes wet shouldn't hurt, no?

Instead of doing something sane last night1 I spent a few hours creating and submitting my first patch to a Drupal module. I attempted to follow the Drupal coding standards and taking advantage of the Drupal API, but I'm sure I've made a mistake somewhere. Hopefully, a few other eyes review the patch and point out the problems with it.

And I'm only a few weeks late on getting it out too. Actually, not just diving in that weekend and waiting a bit was probably best as I ended up getting a better idea of how to get around the problem.

1. 1. like sleeping