Virtualization, Automation, and anything else that might be on my mind
I’ve been working on a couple of new projects that are really javascript intensive, and have been banging my head because of problems with getting scripts working in all browsers.
The odds of me finding a tool to help by Microsoft of all companies is astounding to me, because of my feelings towards them.
I found a tool, which works only in internet explorer (Located Here) that is helping me out a lot.
EyeOS is amazing. You have to see it for yourself.
Username: demo, Password: demo
A friend of mine finally convinced me to make a (dum dum dum) myspace account. So far I hate it. There’s no point for me to use it except for the fact that it’s a good way to meet people. Random people that is.
Today some random chick asked me to add her to my friends list, or however you say that.. I was like, “uh, okay”. Whatever, I guess that’s what it’s for.
My last two days have been for lack of a better word, educational.
I know that I’ve been raving about how Hula is so awesome, and it truly is. A few days ago however, I found a new mail server called Zimbra. Zimbra is Seriously Awesome. It’s got a ton of AJAX built in. I can’t say how awesome it “looked”. Okay, enough on how great it is.
Zimbra looked good enough that I decided to install it on my personal server, which this blog runs on as well. When I actually installed it I went through the normal installation procedure, and started up the server. I saw how sweet the admin interface was, and then decided to post here how awesome it is.
The website that I mentioned earlier is almost done, all that has to be done is make a minor addition to it, which should be done by Friday.
Next week I’ll be doing some pretty heavy quality testing to make sure that everything works as it should. After that I’ll have a link up for you to check it out, and a temporary account for you to use.
I’m really liking web design / programming. I actually have another project in mind already. I really can’t talk about it, but here’s a hint and a request for help: “Does anyone know an aircraft pilot?”.
I upate hula one time per week from the Subversion tree. You can find instructions on how to do this in linux at The Hula Blog.
Each time that I update my source code using subversion I get updated versions of the new web prototypes. I put them here so that you can see them.
They’re not going to work completely yet because of the fact that they’re just prototypes.
More Later,
Jon Howe
What old days you might ask. My answer to that would be the days where windows was under the crosshairs of virus writers and worm writers.
While it wasn’t always completely one sided, things do seem to be changing a little bit.
See CNET’s Article.
Later.
Jon Howe
I decided after reading all of chapter 2 and part of chapter 3 in my AJAX book that I need to learn Javascript better before I go further with AJAX, because It’s based on Javascript. Fortunately I have a really good Javascript book that I’m about 1/8’th of the way done with.
As for news…
I’m working on a ton of features daily on this site that I’m making (which I could still use some testers (Email me) for. One feature that’s been annoying me, as I’ve been trying to implement it is the functionality to have the site remember someone after they log out.
From now on, everyone is to call the thing that has the buttons that they use with their right hand to control a cursor on a computer a “clicky clicky”.
It’s a way better name… no seriously.
later,
Jon Howe
I just got a new book on Ajax, which is an exploding method of creating code using a combination of Javascript, CSS, DOM, and xhtmlrequest.
That’s a bunch of technical junk I guess. The main point is that it allows you to do really cool things on a webpage without refreshing the whole page.
I’m going to try to read a chapter in it each day, if not one day then every two days, and post comments and maybe code examples (if I feel creative) as well.