Here's the long and short of the past few days:

Tuesday was spent mostly working and on a field trip to MicroCenter in Denver because Mike wanted a new router after seeing how well the new router at work is working. My tasks for Tuesday were of the semi-mindless variety, mostly copying and pasting code snippets, but with enough intelligence ( Read more... )

Two days ago I said I'd return to regular postings. Then I forgot about it yesterday ( Read more... )

As with many, many days of working at Reality Engineering, interruption was the rule, and my plans were out the window ( Read more... )

So, it's only Monday, is it ( Read more... )

Yesterday, around 11:30, my boss leans in to the programmer's office and says "Hey James, are you planning on going to lunch today?"

I take a moment to process this. It has been a while since I've brought lunch to the office, and me bringing my lunch to the office is rare in and of itself. "Eventually..." I reply cautiously.

"Okay, 'cause

Either I'm doing it wrong, or Acronis Snap Deploy doesn't work the way I think it should. I just want to have several OS images sitting on the network somewhere and have a way for three to five machines to boot them for testing purposes. So far I've gotten it to work, but only after six hours. Virtual machines seem to work better in that regard ( Read more... )

As I walked down the stairs from my apartment this morning, I wondered idly about whether or not I'd paid rent yet this month. Something in my head said "Of course you have. The month is nearly half over, you simply must have paid rent or else we'd have heard something about it ( Read more... )

So, this morning I had four installers to rebuild and test by four. Mostly minor-ish changes. "Okay, not so bad. I can put off lunch until four and get them done," I think.

The four installers are:

1. Full installer for version 3.0.1.11 (~1.3GB) (v 3.0.1.10 was Tuesday's build. As far as I know, there was primarily a build for the sake of ( Read more... )

Does two links really count as an extravaganza?

For those reading this who might be wondering "What is a podcast? and why should I care?" I invite you to watch this short video. Then you can ask me questions if you're still confused.

For the steampunk fans: you can build your own Victorian All-in-One PC. I fear I do not have the machining ( Read more... )

Stayed late last night working on installers. I thought they were done and my Tuesday would be free of that cursed program ( Read more... )