Aside from the many other things that make this state #1, Utah (my home state, and the home of PThree) leads the nation with the number of homes that own a computer. If that isn’t all, we are also ranked 5th in the nation with homes having access to the Internet. Check out [...]
Ubuntu is 1 year old! Warty Warthog (4.10) was released on October 24, 2004, and since Ubuntu has become the most popular Linux distro and in the highest demand, according to Distrowatch. PThree.org is proudly hosted on the latest Ubuntu release, currently Breezy Badger (5.10).
Being new to Python and completely discovering the language has been quite the experience. I find it realy cool that it is whitespace dependant, and that indenting matters. This helps reduce alot of the “chatter” that is common in C/C++, Java, Perl, etc.
This week, I decided, among other things, to write a game [...]
A house contractor utilizes the best tools of his trade. As does a plumber, carpenter, mechanic and technician. So should developers.
It is easy as a developer to get caught into using simple tools to get the job done. For example, when editing a web page, a simple text editor gets [...]
I spent the majority of my weekend either working on a few web projects for clients or actually going to work. This means I never really had much time to myself. However, working on web development for 36 hours straight can do some crazy things to your mind. I needed a break, [...]
For those of you beta testing Mozilla Firefox 1.5, you will be pleased to find out that Beta 2 has been released today, and is ready for download. According to the Mozilla site, features include:
Enhanced web page rendering
Major security fixes
Improved automated update system
A few bug fixes
Way to go on the security and bug fixes, [...]
Okay, this is something that I have been spending the last 3 hours doing. Needless to say, I was getting quite frustrated. However, I have figured it out, and I share my experience here.
Wordpress has the ability to take full advantage of Apache’s mod_rewrite module. Using your .htaccess file crammed to the [...]
Novell has released OpenSuSE 10.0 to the public today. This release has been long awaited since SuSE 9.2 and 9.3. The major features include Firefox 1.0, OpenOffice.org 2, enhanced wireless configurations, bluetooth and commercial software such as Adobe Acrobat, Macromedia Flash, Sun Java, Real NetworksRealPlayer and many more. Bundled with over 1500 [...]
At work, most of our software programs run in Linux. We do use Windows XP workstations, however. We use PuTTY to access Linux. It works well, and the IT department as well as most of the data engineers. The only thing that is keeping us from making the switch is QuickBasic.
Several [...]
