HDC09

HDC09 is blast, keeping up with the twitter chatter can be somewhat overwhelming, however. Following all of the @s and #HDC09s around. Keynote Speaker was Scott Gu... er something, the Corporate VP for Mircrosoft, very cool. Lots of free goodies given away as many raffles for laptops, zunes, iPods, and netbooks. Day 2 today... should be even more fun :)

MIT lectures on Python

I recently stumbled upon some lectures on Python programming from MIT's Eric Grimson. WOW! These are quite amazing.... Not to mention the entire 24 lectures (1 hour each) of the semester are all online Here.

Flex/Flash Development

As I build a portfolio to show what I can do, I have added one more item to the list. I have offered to build a website promoting my apartment complex, for my landlord of course. I will hopefully be using some of the cool new Flex/Flash tools I acquired (Flash Develop and the plug-in Design View) to create a full on interactive page with floor plans and photos to accompany. I havent really developed much with flex or flash in the past, but done much of my internet-development coding in simple HTML and CSS. I will also be designing a website for a friend, trying to make it in the environmental planning world. Woot!!!

Real-World IT

On Wednesday I will be attend a IT career fair in downtown Omaha. My good friend just graduated with his BS in Computer Engineering and I just transferred into an MIS program. If everything goes well, perhaps we can get him a better paying job than the grocery store. Come October, I will also be attending a developers conference for programmers and such. I'm excited to see some of the stuff there such as the Silverlight session and some of the database sessions. I'm trying to gain as much experience outside of the classroom as I can, and the events I think will better my overall chances of landing something good in the near future.

Converting a standard ATX to work on a Compaq motherboard

Well, after studying a motherboard given to me by a customer of mine, and after swapping in multiple ATX power supplies. I noticed something. Even though the motherboard was a 20+4 pin like most standard ATX power supplies, this one had different voltages set in different plugs. UGH! Now I just have to design a way of converting a +5v to a -12v current :/

Project xG3

Project xG3 (xWindows on a G3), has come to a standstill. After several hours of install and a few various terminal commands without purpose, the G3 is refusing to load into the XFCE GUI. :( With my lack of Linux command knowledge, I have been set back. I figure the trick is to roll back the display, but how...

Xubuntu G3

Installing/Replacing OpenSuse on my iMac G3 333. I will be putting Xubuntu on, should make it somewhat faster, since it's a much lighter OS. I am not used to the XFCE environment, but change is good and learning some new Linux stuff is always good.