Archive for July, 2009

Technical Split Off

I’ve decided that I’m going to create a blog at a subdomain of my online portfolio site, and that is where I will do my more technically-focused posting (e.g., stuff about Linux, web development, etc.). The blog here has a very broad focus, and I think the audience for the technical articles is generally [...]

MySQL Unique Key Pairs

This is one of those things that is easy to do, but I frequently forget because of how little I deal with SQL syntax. Essentially, there are times when you want two fields to be unique together. For example, you might have a table with a city field and a state field. [...]

I have used Pidgin with my main Gmail account for quite a while, but I ran into some trouble today configuring it for a GoogleTalk account from “Google Apps for your Domain.” So, here are my quick notes with screenshots to show how to set up this type of GoogleTalk account in Pidgin (screenshots [...]

Fourth of July, 2009

Happy Fourth of July! …What do you mean that was yesterday?

Book Review: Animal Farm

I’ve been using my time on the bus to and from work to read more books. I tried to read Catch-22 but didn’t finish. It was fairly entertaining, but I felt like the satire alone was supposed to drive the entire novel, and it just didn’t work for me. Maybe having been [...]