The past couple of months have been busy ones. But, the work I put in has borne much fruit. Two weeks ago, I was promoted and became a software engineering manager. I still report to the same person, but I am now responsible for overseeing three parallel projects and two other engineers. […]
Monadnock is my MacBook Pro. If you look in the archives, you will find a post where I had tried to turn my laptop computer into a triple-booting workstation: OS X, Linux and Windows XP. The Windows XP installation failed, not surprisingly, but I really didn’t care much b/c I am also running […]
The effort to redo Compass Game’s website is bearing much fruit. It’s still not ready to go live just yet, but the basic look & feel and the core databases which drive the site are in place. I’m currently waiting for more site-related content.
Meanwhile, I’ve gone back to doing some Crucible-related work. […]
The past month and a half have been a whirlwind of activity, punctuated with family illnesses.
I’ll start with the illness, a stomach flu that caught us by surprise while we were vacationing up north in Gilford, NH, on the shores of Lake Winnepesaukee. Our plan was to spend a relaxing long holiday weekend on […]
A financial roadblock to one of the many projects that I’ve been working on has been removed allowing work to progress. On the flip side, I have so many projects going on simultaneously that it’s getting more and more difficult to keep things going. I may need to get my hands on some project management […]
This has been a tough couple of weeks. I thought last week was bad, but this week was rough enough to make me forget last week. Thank God it’s Friday. No shit.
I really can’t relate the scope of all that has happened in the past couple of weeks. Instead I can […]
I finally got around to using a Kill-a-Watt meter to measure energy usage for my Penguin Computing Linux workstation and my new Mac Mini. Jorden Mauro, a co-op who’s been working in my group for a few months now, helped out. We wound up using his MacBook Pro for additional comparisons for reasons […]
In case you couldn’t tell, Ticonderoga and Monadnock are the host names of my computers. Good, strong New England names.
Anyway, I was so pleased with Ticonderoga’s transformation into a dual-boot development machine, that I decided to do the same with Monadnock. Except, I decided that I would also try to load Windows XP natively […]
As the Mac Pro is roughly $3000, I decided to buy a Mac Mini for ~$900 and use it at work as my primary development machine. Zoran provides its engineers with development machines, but they don’t update them. Frankly, they’re probably understaffed. However, they don’t allow us engineers to have “root” access […]
From the earliest beginnings of my software engineering career, I’ve been fascinated with cross-platform software. Writing programs and applications for a single platform, such as Windows, has absolutely no appeal to me. I see no need to force people onto one computing platform.
Until recently, however, the computing world was not only segregated by operating system […]