I’ve been revamping Wordpress recently, fixed some things on the back end that have been bothering me, applied a new theme, and posted a fresh new resume, which hadn’t been updated in about 16 months. I have no immediate plans to need a new job, but I’d rather be prepared for it in any case, given that Purdue is doing anything but making me feel secure about my job at this point.
Anybody who had anything bookedmarked with a /wordpress/ directory in the URL should be getting redirected to the home page now. Prior to Wordpress, I used CodeIgniter, which lived at the root of peelman.us. When I installed Wordpress, I wasn’t sure if I was going to like it or not, so I stuffed it into a sub-directory of the site, http://peelman.us/wordpress and did some funky .htaccess rules to redirect requests there. Its been almost two years since I switched, and I haven’t looked back, so I figured it was time to adjust things. Wordpress is now the site root, so I apologize in advance for any broken links or issues getting to content.
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Its been almost a year since I started working on the CoRD Project. In that time we’ve released 0.5, which was in “beta” for almost 18 months when I started tinkering with it in March of 2009. We’ve also released two minor updates that fixed major issues and added features, and are getting ready to release a third release (0.5.3) that will hopefully fix a few problems. Work on a 0.6 release has started, and rudimentary code has been put in place to allow groups. Going completely off of the amount of releases and code changes, it may seem like we’ve been resting on our laurels, but I wanted to point out the massive changes we’ve made on the backend in the past year that will help us accelerate releases and hopefully prevent another 18 month drought of updates and information.
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For those not aware, there was a recent mess started by Brent Simmons on creating a new open source email client for Macs, to be called Letters.app. I’ve been following the carnage since Monday and just wanted to lay down some random thoughts here.
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I love this comment from the OpenCongress link: Read more…
So my idea on doing a series about the follies of Windows 7 has fell flat on its face. In addition to the sheer amount of things that are still bad, there is simply too much personal bias, too much dislike. I tried and failed 3 times to write my piece on software distribution, and each time it fell into a nebula of hatred and bitterness that only computer geeks could appreciate.
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