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Archive for February, 2010
Desktop Notes – 02/22/2010
Feb 22nd
Looks like its time for another installment of Desktop Notes. Well we just had the nicest weekend of year here in birmingham so its been a decent start to the week if nothing else. Last Friday I went my first Birmingham Lunch Bunch meeting and had a lot of fun seeing everyone. I used to be able to do jelly’s on Fridays but currently that is not an option at my new employer, maybe later.
The top thing going on through my head early this week was actually brought about by the warm weather. I really need to plan out what I need to do as far as late winter/early spring bonsai work. I know I need to repot several of my trees this year and restyle 2 of my pines. I also have a few deciduous trees I need to do some restyling on as well. The new pottery shipment has arrived at bonsaimonk in Atlanta but since I already have enough extra pots I am trying to resist the trip over there. I will startup my bonsai notes section in a few weeks when I start working in earnest again.
I have also downloaded OT2 again this week and plan to start entering my bonsai into the app and start working on a web interface for the db. I hope to actually make a community site where people can host there info and discuss what they are working on but I am going to start with just my personal stuff for now. I hope to post some thought on this later this week.
Rearranged the figure area on my desk
The 2 new arrivals are making saber nerves.
And last but not least it seems Zange-chan is picking on Nagi again.
Desktop Notes – 02/16/2010
Feb 16th
I’ve decided to start a new series called Desktop Notes in which I will lay out my thoughts at the beginning of the week and kind I’ve decided to start a new series called Desktop Notes in which I will lay out my thoughts at the beginning of the week and kind of act like a log of what I have been thinking over the course of the year. I will also use this series to keep a log of how my desktop environment changes over time as well..
The main thing going on early this year is the start of conference planning. As I have done the past several years I have tried to be involved in multiple local tech conferences in an effort to help the local tech community. So far this year we have BarcampBirmingham 4 and the first Ignite Birmingham in the planning phases. Luckily we have lots of great people in the area that help with these events so it doesn’t consume too much of any one persons time. The Ignite planning is the most pressing due to the fact we have a little over a month to plan unlike the Barcamp where we have several months so that is how my time is really divided at the moment.
The other things on my mind lately have been more on the idea/development side. I have two pet projects I want to start working on soon/again. The first of which is a tech community calendar. While I know we have several of these already in general they are not kept up or they are missing data. So my goal is to make a calendar and an engine to populate said calendar. So far my two competing ideas on the development of the calendar are to write one from scratch in php or use wordpress with a plugin such as gigpress to do the initial work. I will probably set up a demo using gigpress this week just to test it out. If anyone wants to help let me know. I have also contacted some other similar projects about some joint efforts but not much has come out of it yet.
The next project is my bonsai collection management program. I have been playing around with a program called OT2 for a while now and it is a good native app but I think it might be cool to develop a more complex web-based application that may even lend itself to a more social concept. First off I think I am just going to develop an OT2 like program but make it web based for personal use then I hope to develop a mobile client for it for personal use. After that I will try to make it more of consumer driven app and hopefully have a working model by Brussels Rendezvous this year. My one complaint is I am not a good designer so it may look a little rough.of act like a log of what I have been thinking over the course of the year. I will also use this series to keep a log of how my desktop environment changes over time as well.
Had some labor issues while sorting last years business cards!
