Friday, November 21, 2008

Ruby on Rails

Just wanted to post this guide a guy I had a couple of classes with during graduate school.  Seems to have a lot of useful links on learning Ruby on Rails.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

What's going on with biowhat?

What's been going on here you may be asking. Well I've been pretty much swamped with my job at INCOGEN. I have every intention to keep this site going but it just has not been a huge priority.

What we may have going on here, though is the addition of a new writer. Hopefully he'll start posting soon. A goal of mine is also to revamp the look of this site as well as the writing style.

So if you still have us in your reader, please stay tuned. I apologize for the lack of content and as always feedback/questions are always welcome.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Streaming Media from OSX to a PS3

The dust has settled around here and my entertainment center is close to complete. I just have to finish building the projector screen and organize some of the wires.

One thing I was worried about was trying to figure out how I was going to stream media from our computers to the PS3. I figured I'd have to dust off and upgrade my old XP box as the machines we primarily use here at home are Macs. But alas, I found a couple of sites that cover how to stream media from OSX to a PS3:

Update:  Found another useful link I'll have to check out once I get around to playing with this whole thing:

  • Plex a Media Center designed for OS X

Friday, November 7, 2008

Network of Linux Machines

I'm not really sure if I'll ever have a network of Linux machines. Managing two OSX machines is enough trouble as it is. But if multiple Linux machines ever becomes the case in my network, I know I'll have a solution in NIS to help manage IDs and such across the network. My basic understanding of this, and I emphasize basic, is that NIS is Linux's implementation of MS's Active Directory.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Election Day '08

For some reason, with this year's election I decided that I was not only going to vote but get all the freebies as well.

The first stop of course, was to get out and vote to obtain the ever so valuable voting sticker (yes, I am actually in it for the electoral process as well). Surprisingly the lines were non existent considering all the hype of ginamorous voting lines. That's right, I used ginamorous.


I had been starving myself on purpose earlier in the day so that I could enjoy all the free goodies, so the first place I headed to, was Krispy Kreme for my doughnut.


The line here was longer than at the Voting Precinct but I obtained my free doughnut.


The doughnut was OK but not worth my waiting to eat. The next stop was Starbucks for my cup of coffee.


Again it wasn't anything to write home about but free is free.

The next stop was later in the day as Ben & Jerry's had a window of time for their deal. The line for this place was insane. This was probably due to the fact that it is the only Ben & Jerry's in the RVA.


After downing my cup of ice cream, I headed over to the Chick-fil-a over by my house for the free chicken sandwich.


So was it all worth it? Not sure. In writing this, I find it in no way enjoyable and am deducting cool points from myself. Maybe I'm going through a caffeine and sugar low. Although I do feel I will wired until the AM to see who wins the election, but I think I may have shaved a couple months off my life.

UPDATE: Obama wins and its not even the AM yet. Maybe I'll clean my office or something while this sugar rush wears off.

Macs and MySQL

Just realized that the CocoaMySQL project has been discontinued. I found the new branch off in Sequel Pro the other day. Looks like something to try out if I'm ever freed from the clutches of Oracle.

Todo lists and such

I'm a big fan of todo lists but have never fully 100% incorporated them into my daily life. The closest I've gotten was a moleskine notebook that had quite the run and is still a favorite in my book.

I stumbled upon this iPhone and Tasks article the other day and figured it might be use to some people who read this blog.

Enjoy!