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Archive for March, 2009

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-29
  • Had a brief journey into Win 2008 Terminal Services and IIS through a couple of course modules the past two days. It’s looking fairly good. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-22
  • Currently reading Linus Torvalds’ biography “Just For Fun”. #
  • Another LFS build, I think I’m beginning to see the matrix! #
  • Ok, so the latest LFS guide is 6.4 and the livecd is 6.3, so manually ftp’ing packages via shell… tum tee tum… #
  • Another long day of .NET shananigans over with. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-15
  • 2-1 Win again! Now brushing up on my first aid notes. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-08
  • It’s all gone CURLy and libxml2y… #

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Busy Bee

January to March seems to be just the most manic time of the year for me, sooo busy at work and often having to work till the wee hours to get my main project updated for the college I work for, so that staff can plan their courses and budgets for the next academic year. The LSC decided to change the funding methodologies for 08/09, although we didn’t change things in the last planning period. But now we have the details we’ve implemented it in this years budget planning tool. Anyway enough of that, I am so booking some holiday when things have settled down a bit.

What else have I been doing? Mostly PHP, JavaScript (although it’s on my list to give JQuery a try after listening to the FLOSS Weekly podcast no. 55), cURL, libxml2, mySQL, Visual Studio C++ 2008 Express (for my sins ;). Oh and I’ve converted myself to Gnome, after a long and painful struggle with KDE, swapping kate for gedit and not looking back, much.

Oh and more dabbling with Drupal, wrote a newsfeed reader module for grabbing news items for a website.

Well, that’s it for now, back to the grind…