http://remstate.com Create the Internet of your Dreams Thu, 15 May 2008 15:42:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, as Windows XP is moving towards end-of-life, I'm collecting together bits and pieces of software and consolidating them together into a nice bundle. Why? Because that software might become unavailable at some point in the future -- and not only is my hardware not doing Vista, but there's a ... http://remstate.com/2008/05/15/building-an-ultimate-xp-bootdisk/ Well folks, I think it's been a fairly decent run, but I'm throwing in the towel for In Series. I'll be around to answer questions and hammer out some bugs here and there, but the release schedule of WordPress has thrown me for my last loop; it's just too much ... http://remstate.com/2008/04/27/maintenance-only-for-in-series/ Unfortunately, WordPress 2.5 completely breaks my tests -- specifically, my automation can't seem to get a sane post ID back after saving a new post. So, In Series is, and will for the forseeable future, remain untested with WordPress 2.5. It should work; use at your own risk (and please ... http://remstate.com/2008/03/29/in-series-and-wordpress-25/ I just stumbled across this little gem... I found this plugin very easy to use. [It's] so easy that I thought I was using it wrong. I kept checking it to make sure it was working. It is a great plugin for writing series posts. -- Robert I've heard "easy to use" come ... http://remstate.com/2008/03/18/in-series-testimonial/ ... I really don't count this blog. ;) My article on using source control systems is available over at linux.com. And for the curious/speculative, yes -- this is my late Sunday post. :) http://remstate.com/2008/03/10/im-officially-a-published-writer/ I'm extremely tardy with the Sunday post this week; my apologies. I've been rather busy with some other events going on in my life, and I'm hoping that things will settle back into normality schedule-wise over the next couple of weeks. In any case, there is good news -- I've written ... http://remstate.com/2008/03/06/thursday-night-sunday-post/ Ugh. Woke up on Friday, and thought that I might be having a heart attack (chest pain, shortness of breath, nausea, dizziness). Thankfully, it seems to have been just a nasty flu, or possibly food poisoning. In any case, I've spent the last two and a half days confined to ... http://remstate.com/2008/02/24/ye-olde-sunday-post/ I recently read about Ohloh on Slashdot and thought, "Wow -- that's almost useful." Unfortunately, SLOC is a sloppy count of productivity no matter how you cut it. I think that there's a much better idea hiding in there -- in fact, I wrote one of my final college papers ... http://remstate.com/2008/02/21/oholoh-qa-metrics-are-where-its-at/ I spent most of Saturday helping to get some folks moved, and most of today vegging out and recuperating, so I didn't have a lot of time for any side-projects. I'm working on knocking out new tests for the In Series 3.1 features that aren't covered yet, so I can ... http://remstate.com/2008/02/17/lazy-sunday/ We've got another translation! Michael Grove was kind enough to provide us with a Danish set of strings. Thanks so much! This and all other translations are available on the In Series project page. http://remstate.com/2008/02/12/danish-translation-for-in-series/