I’m kind of an odd person. In my house, I have a closet that serves as the central hub for all my networking. It’s sort of an odd hybrid of cheap IKEA utility shelves coupled with some rack mounted equipment.
I put “servers” in this closet too and serve files from this closet. Back in my university days, it was the “geek” thing to do: in fact it helped me tremendously during an advanced networking course as it meant I had my own in-house lab. Nowadays, it is more of a carry-over tradition. I have gone from a huge network of many servers to an array of embedded devices (WRT54GLs running OpenWRT) and one/two PCs running Linux. …Continue reading » Review of the Asus P5N-MX (LGA775) mainboard for use as a Linux File Server
Cover of Head First HTML
First and foremost, I am a persistence layer software developer. I don’t do much UI work and what little UI work I do usually involves rich client UIs. I rarely do any web UI work.
Having said that, I think it’s important to know at least a little bit about web UI technologies, even if you are a back-end developer. Why? Well, at the very least, you will be able to understand the vocabulary of the UI guys you work with. Furthermore, you never know when you might have to look for a new job and there’s a good chance they’ll want you to know about some of that web UI stuff.
With that in mind, I recently picked up a copy of Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML to see if I could learn a thing or two. I just finished the book and I wanted to share my thoughts on it. …Continue reading » Book Review: Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML
After months of begging, I finally bought my wife a notebook computer. It’s a Toshiba A100-SK4 (manufacturer’s part number: PSAA8C-SK400E). Here are the specs: …Continue reading » Toshiba A100-SK4 – First Impressions
