http://joefleming.net what you see is what you get Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:17:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I know I said before that I would be replacing Wordpress with Drupal around here, and I did start working on that. However, the more I read about Drupal, the harder it seems to do custom things. Actually, it's more a problem of poor documentation than it is a lack ... http://joefleming.net/2008/11/17/drupals-on-hold/ So, I had some Real Media (rm) videos that I wanted to view in Linux. But, like so many other sane people out there, I didn't want anything to do with the official Real Player for Linux. I've never been a fan of Real and I've always thought their software ... http://joefleming.net/2008/08/23/media-playback-in-ubuntu/ In an effort to save time when I put together sites for people, I've been working on a universal engine I can use. It is modeled loosely off the MercuryBoard code and, for the most part, has served me pretty well. Recently, I've tried to revamp it with more object ... http://joefleming.net/2008/08/18/farewell-wordpress/ Apparently one of the people Aaron works with called him out on his programming and computer use history and he posted his response on his blog. In that blog, he took the liberty of calling out a few of his friends, myself included. I put off responding because my computer ... http://joefleming.net/2008/08/02/a-history-of-coding-and-computers/ I've always been a "do it yourself" kind of web developer, but after reinventing the wheel time and time again and struggling to make my code work in the various different browsers out there, I've come to appreciate that I can save a TON of time through different libraries and ... http://joefleming.net/2008/07/04/mootools-i-choose-you/ Many ISPs these days employ traffic shaping to make their networks run smoother. In the most basic sense, they give priority to more critical traffic, like VoIP for instance, and slow down less important traffic, like HTTP and Torrents. Lately, many ISPs have been doing their best to slap down ... http://joefleming.net/2008/06/07/skirting-isp-torrent-fitlering/ I've seen all kinds of really cool projects that use the fancy new Arduino microcontroller. I'm not the biggest fan of C or C++ (to be honest, I hate them both), but the Wiring model and the Processing environment seems interesting. So much so that I decided over this long ... http://joefleming.net/2008/05/27/ill-have-one-of-your-finest-arduinos-please/ I've been growing increasingly concerned with the quality of hard drives being made today. It used to be that a hard drive would last you many years before you'd see a failure out of it. In fact, I still have hard drives that date back to the early 90's that ... http://joefleming.net/2008/03/23/my-foray-into-data-recovery/ I recently got an email saying that I had a new user register here. Out of curiosity, I checked who it was, but neither the name nor the email was familiar to me. The username was alina77vere9uk and the email alina77vere@gmail.com, which to me looked like the kind of email ... http://joefleming.net/2008/03/23/wordpress-users-check-your-registered-user-list/ As you may or may not know, Ubuntu doesn't include a build environment by default. What this means is that in order to compile program from source, you'll need to get the build environment on your own. This is simple enough though, as outlined below: sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall This will ... http://joefleming.net/2008/02/08/rolling-your-own-deb-package-getting-secure-vpn-tunneling-on-ubuntu/