Category Archives: asides

flac or uberstandard?

Three years ago i purchased a Rockford Fosgate digital media server. This device streamed MP3’s from my PC to my hifi setup. At that point i decided to rip all of my CD’s for access by the streamer. The omnifi only supports MP3 or WAV so i chose to rip everything according [...]

man in the middle

Occasionally your team won’t be the only team on a big league project. Sometimes you find yourself as the man in the middle. This is the first time that i find myself on the outside of the good ‘ol boy network. For the perseverance of the team we must push through. [...]

Adobe Flex going open source

An interesting new player comes to the open source world - Adobe Flex. Flex seems to be a powerful choice for building the new buzzword Rich Internet Applications. I’m still unsold on having an entire application be one giant flash movie but time will tell. It does have some powerful capabilities especially [...]

xmas early: hardware

Ahh…the joys of setting up a data center environment. We’ve got a new Watchguard Firebox x750e sitting here waiting on our cabinet, servers, UPS and managed switches to get here. I can’t wait to get my hands dirty and start setting everything up. It will be quite the steep learning curve for [...]

when the IDE hoses you

Great advances have been made in Integrated Development Environments over the past three years. These IDE’s aim to simplify every day development tasks - everything from compiling code to handling check in procedures with a version control provider to providing drag and drop design interfaces. I am constantly amazed at the advances made [...]