http://kaanon.com/blog Thoughts, Ideas, Perceptions Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:21:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en FINALLY!!! Centerflow has been a work in progress for months now. I've gotten a good amount of feedback who like the tool, but have trouble installing or configuring it. Ever the problem solver, I decided that the next step for centerFLOW was to follow Wordpress' lead and offer the web application ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2008/06/centerflow-as-a-service/ I've released a new version of Centerflow. It's pretty much ready to go. Before, the Projects and Messages model were using scaffolding. I've changed it so that the Projects model can now edit, merge and delete properly. Deleting a project will also optionally merge tasks into the parent project (unless, of ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2008/04/centerflow-0904-released/ Last year, many states (including my home state of California) moved up their primaries to happen in early February. The idea was that the earlier their primary happened, the more influence their votes would have. Ironically, the exact opposite has. "Super" Tuesday didn't really change much. The only thing that ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2008/02/irony-in-politics/ For the past couple of months I have been working on a project management tool using CakePHP. It's now available for download so check it out. It all started with BaseCamp. I had our development team using it and it really revolutionalized our development process. It got so good that it was ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2007/12/centerflow-0803-released/ I'm watching CNN right now and in the most recent democratic debate they noticed that the democratic candidates have much of the same stands on issues. How is that a big suprise? They are part of the same political party. What's more the "talking heads" opened up their remarks by ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2007/12/cnn-sucks/ I've had a photo section on my site forever, but there hasn't been a link to it. I've finally uploaded photos from the wedding and got the pages to look as good as the rest of the site. Enjoy My Photo Gallery http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2007/06/photos-are-up/ In honor of my pending nuptials, I've put up a few pages to commemorate the event. Go Here to check it out. http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2007/02/wedding-site-up-and-running/ http://blog.lunarpages.com/2007/01/31/eric-meyer-interview-css/ Eric Meyer, writer of many CSS books, and overall CSS guru held an interview for blog.lunarpages.com. They used some of my questions, even! Check it out at The Lunarpages Blog http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2007/01/eric-meyer-interview-bloglunarpagescom/ I've updated the look of my site. I think it's a bit more modern. I also got a bit fancy with my background image. I'm obsessed with randomness, so i wanted to make sure I could have a random background image. That part is easy. < ? include_once('bggenerator.php'); $bg_file = background_name($_COOKIE['width'],$_COOKIE['height']); ?> body { background: ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/09/new-site-design/ I took a personality test tonight. Turns out I am an ENFP or Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving kind of guy. One description said I was a "Champion Idealist." I like the way that sounds. These tests are frightenly accurate. Here's a summary: The following comes partially from the archetype, but ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/09/enfp/ I just installed WebJukebox from CoffeeCup software. It's great . http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/08/webjukebox/ I'd like to publicly state that I love AJAX. I have discovered it, and i'm never going back. As a new programmer, I was confined to command-line scripts and printing to file. NO LONGER! With web pages I can create something completely accessible. With AJAX and my 2 favorite libraries ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/08/ajax-is-awesome/ Need to setup your wireless network in Ubuntu(or Kubuntu, or Xubuntu or Edubuntu)? It's quite difficult but you can find a lot of help here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper A neat trick is this, If you have a broadcom card you might need to swap a few files. For instance, I had to ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/07/setting-up-your-wireless-network/ I'm currently in the middle of reworking the order pages for my company, and i'm using the very popular Javascript libraries(Prototype & Scriptaculous) to do so. It's pretty fun. I'm a little dissappointed that Prototype doesn't have xml responses built-in, but I guess I'll have a little challenge adding that ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/07/ajax/ DVD Format War Already Over?An anonymous reader writes "'Nobody likes false starts' - claims the assertive and risky article "10 Reasons Why High Definition DVD Formats Have Already Failed" published by Audioholics which outlines their take on why the new Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD formats will attain nothing more than ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/06/dvd-format-war/ I wish I blogged more. I'd have a better collection of my thoughts. A better way to express my feelings about stuff ive been holding in. On that note... Illegal Immigration I hate the fact that the House & Senate are debating on "Illegal" immigrants. People aren't illegal. Very few people in ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/06/blogging/ This thing is amazing looking. It's an outdoorsy phone that looks like it might stay in one piece when dropped. I can't wait until it comes out. For a no-frills multimedia phone, check out the BenQ Siemens M81. It features a 1.3-megapixel camera, 262k color TFT display, 27MB of buit-in memory, ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/06/i-want-this-phone/ Letter to the president is a great DVD outlining the effect of crack cocaine on the black community. It was eye opening and supremly depressing. Look it up. The president of Iran wrote a letter to President George W. Bush. In it President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad basically wonders how the US can ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/05/letter-to-the-president/ So, I bought the Panic! at the Disco album. It's pretty good. I must admit. It's so damn catchy. "When I say shotgun, you say wedding. Shotgun - wedding, Shotgun - wedding" I like it. http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/05/do-panic/ I've got a bunch of spam comments. How is this possible? Who does this? Are people really making money from sending spam emails, let alone COMMENTS? Comments on my page. From people like: Phentermine1418@yahoo.com and whose websites are http://bmw-auto.125mb.com. I'm not dumb. I realize that these are not real names. ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/05/comments-spam/ I was tired of living in the early 2000's so I changed my kpages rss feed service to AJAX.... But lo and behold, I like it a lot better the way it was before. I used to load the entire page, and every feed all at once. When a user wanted ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/04/ajax-good-or-evil/ I'm taking down the links to W3C compliance from my site. Why?, one might ask. Because i'm not sure what I put them there for in the first place. I don't think that I gain anything from its inclusion and it's a major headache to comply, anyway. I give up. ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/04/w3c-compliance-whats-the-point/ I just saw Con-Air. I am floored. I can't believe this movie is so good. I can't believe this movie is so bad. I can't help but love a movie that features a roundhouse kick by a hillbillied Nicholas Cage. I can't help but hate a movie that says Nobody ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/03/con-air-awesome-or-awful/ I found this list of real celebrity names on the web. Now, obviously I didn't think that Snoop Dogg was the rapper's given name, but some of them are surprising. Some seem silly. You can see the entire list here: 2Spare.com but here's a list of some. Good Changes Coolio (Artis Ivey, ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/03/wow/ The other day, while on a break from work ( i was buying some donuts from Krispy Kreme ). As I walk out with my glazed creme filled, and apple filled cinnamon roll donuts, this Italian guy in a rental car calls me over. He shows me his passport, his ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/02/counterfeit-armani/ wow. http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/02/stanley-jordan/ While driving home, I began to think what is a witness? I know that we are supposed to be good witnesses for Christ, and that sometimes people "witness" as a verb when they verbally tell others about the Good News. When I got home I googled it and found ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/01/a-witness-for-christ/ Where do you derive your drive? What is your vision? What is your dream? What is your goal in life? What is God's purpose in your life? What is mine? It's a fear of failure. A need to succeed. A goal of perfection. A choice to change. A desire to be the best I ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/01/whats-your-motivation/ I just read a story about the United States switching to digital tv sets by 2009. Great, right? Yeah except for the 70 million or so TV sets that will crowd our landfills. And to combat this, the brilliant US govt. is going to hand out vouchers for converter boxes ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/01/digital-television/ Have you seen the Walker Texar Ranger Clips on Conan?? I know it's an old story but I love these. The story goes, NBC merged with Universal, yada yada yada, we get to show Walker Texas Ranger Clips as much as we want. And he does. And I can't believe ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/01/walker-texas-ranger-lever/ WTRL My last quarter in college was a blitz of mounting responsibility and difficult classes. I served as Administrative Lead on this project, a php driven content management system. I led in the development of the XML parser and creation of the XML schema that ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/01/content-management-system/ JDB After graduating from college, my girlfriend and I found ourselves applying to many jobs, but we had no good way to keep track of all our applications and dates of applications and emails, etc. I rehashed the Content Managent management system to keep track of this ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/01/jdb/ Music is the soundtrack to life. I am not an average music listener. I approach the game with an open mind and subsequently find myself hearing acoustic guitar songs followed by introspective hip hop followed by intense alternative rock. I have also found that I don't give a damn if ... http://kaanon.com/blog/content/2006/01/recommendations/