Monkinetic Weblog

Well, after a month of planning behind her back, I managed to pull off a (very nearly heart-stopping) surprise party for Jodi last night. Tomorrow is her actual birthday, but I had to do it early to get the most people here and to make sure she did not make other plans. With the collusion of a few friends in our church, I handed out invitations, arranged for a large cake, balloons, streamers, 30 guests, snacks, ice cream...

Heh. This is what I need.

UNIX Shell Script Tutorials & Reference. Sometimes very useful.

Portable.nsd - run OpenACS behind Apache 2? In progress.

Bill points to this set of articles at Dexterity.com. Designed for game developer's they seem to have really good content for other developers as well.

Jade Rubick hosts a page of links to OpenACS tips. Excellent.

I've started a new section on this site called Notebook. This is where I'll collect posts on interesting topics. My first notebook page is the OpenACS Notebook, where I'm collecting weblog posts, tips, tricks, and other useful information.

While hanging in #openacs tonight I got a quick tutorial from jim (no link) on handling debug variables with an in-memory table structure. Read about it starting here. Combined with a new form of fusion... I mean, combined with a <multiple> tag in the adp page it makes it easy to output a table of debug data.

I posted a message on the OpenACS forums regarding the behavior of the lookup code for <include> src attributes. So far there have been a few interesting responses.

On localhost: the notes tutorial, which takes you through creating a new package.

Discussion on[#openacs](http://openacs.org/irc/log/2003-06-13None#T14-11-04) about ways to handle Form-to-Email in openacs without creating a spam-machine...

Consider this a bookmark:

Anytime you move or change an XQL file that lives in the www folder, you're going to have to restart the server, so that the package manager can reload the XQL.

Well, things have been pretty quiet around here lately, and there's a good reason: after a year of unemployment, I have a shot at a contractor position with a company in Southern California. I'll be working from home, which is great.

I'm learning OpenACS, and had to install PostgreSQL to support it. There are great instructions by Marc Liyanage here, as well as a StartupItem so that Postgres will launch on boot.

Well, since I've been so busy lately, and have not been blogging as I ought, here's a humorous tidbit from the archives.

My good buddy Nate works for Raytheon, where the mechanical engineers just got a new stenciling machine... smile

I'm working on a new app in my limited spare time. It's an OS X app, and this post is geeky, so you can move along is that's not your bag.

Men, here's why you can't win smile:

Jodi and I played a game of Cribbage over lunch, and ran afoul of a question of play. Google, of course, had the answer.