T11M

So I’ve been playing with Bash (Bourne Again Shell) and have discovered how incredibly useful piping is. With piping you can take the output of one command and output (pipe) it somewhere, to another command or to a file. This has proven extremely helpful when listing (ls) directories and their permissions. I can ls the directory, pipe it to a .txt file and then email that to someone so that they can see what the permissions for that specific directory are supposed to be. Makes my life easier! Hey oh!

Nothing frustrated me more than lazy people. I subscribe to a list serve at work along with most of the other campus IT people. What pisses me off more than anything else are the people who will ask a question that appears as if they have done no personal research. For example a question will be asked like, “What is a good motherboard for a web server?”.  They don’t list any options they’ve looked into.  They don’t talk about any specifications they might need.  How am I supposed to answer that question, and why should I?  At least show me that you have looked into the options, then I will gladly give you my opinion on the question.

So my days currently consist of working at the UO Clark Honors College, managing my personal business venture (T11M Consulting), and doing web design for two different companies (something I’m trying to bring under the T11M umbrella). I’ve really been struggling lately trying to keep track of the time I spend on each. I really need to manage that better, because I want to be able to track my time investment in each project.

WordPress rocks!  I’ve been customizing my self hosted blog for the past couple of hours and just came across iPhone support.  I’ve enabled it and now am able to view and post to my blog from my iPhone – something I’ve been wanting for quite some time.  How cool is that?  I mean, I had the functionality through the BlogWriter Lite app, but that was with the lite version.  The full version is $4.99.  What a rip off!  It’s not like it was difficult to set up either.  All I had to do was enable XML-RPC support, install the WordPress App on my iPhone, configure the correct address and it works!  Piece of cake.

For that matter, the entire WordPress install is pretty simple.  If you have an idea of how web hosting works, it takes very little effort to get the blog set up and linked to the necessary database.  Check WordPress out, I guarantee it will impress you.

I’ve been working a lot lately with the Drupal CMS and I’ve been extaordinarily impressed by the built in functionality as well as the extensibility through modules.  Almost every web functionality you could possibly need is possible through the use of Drupal.  Not to mention the group of developers behind this project are outstanding, document well, and are Open Source.