Journal Archive
Table of Contents
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Simplest, No-plugin jQuery Modals
Your bandwidth means nothing to me... or, why I'm being lazy with image loading
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Hell or High Water (otherwise known as slapping Fate in the face)
As an independent contractor, I define my own project completion dates. When calculating the completion time of any task given to me, I take into account all of the usual things; difficulty of the task at hand, my current free time to work on a project, personal commitments, etc. When I give my estimated time to completion, I follow a “Hell or High Water” approach; this usually works out fine for me.
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Search and Github.io
During the initial design of this github.io page, I wanted to provide an integrated search form that utilized Google Custom Search Engine, or equivalent from the indexing giant. I don’t want to have to worry about implementing something myself, and their CSE utility should have been just what I needed to accomplish my goals.
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Installing Mate Desktop in CrunchBang
You want Gnome2 back, don’t you? Well, good luck finding it in any updated repositories; gnome2 has been deprecated for some time now. But what if you’re a curmudgeonly old geek that just wants his easy-to-use desktop environment back?
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First personal Jekyll Discovery
So, I've slowly been working on the github.io template here. Today, I've broken down and installed ruby and jekyll onto my local development machines. As an aside, if you want to do the same in a Debian-based GNU/Linux distro, simply enter the following
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Obligatory "Hello World" Post
Eventually I will be porting programming-related posts from my wordpress blog to my github.io site. Check back for updates!