Linux Outlaw Gaming
Fancy yourself a gamer? Fancy you'd like to be? Play a game once and a while? Well, we're looking for you!
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Rest and Relaxation
My Father's been lucky enough to secure some time at a small log cabin in the Adirondacks. If you need me, I'll be on Balfour Lake with most of the family.
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OutlawPla.net
Looks like the Linux Outlaws have started up their own Planet: OutlawPla.net.
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Lena's Adult Day Service
The first site hosted on the new server is up: make sure to take a look at Lena's Adult Day Services!
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Information Overload
I've recently been reading the planets: Planet Ubuntu and Planet Web Security, in addition to my daily blogs. Planets are really just lots of blogs tied together into one RSS feed, so in essence I just started reading forty more blogs in two additional subscriptions.
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Designer Vs. Developer
I am a web developer. I develop web sites, the code behind them, and most technical aspects associated with interactions on the web. I am concerned primarily about function, speed, efficiency and usability.
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The Gauntlet
The Project: Bring the Warren County Tourism web site in-house, taking control from a vendor that was payed $1 million last year for that and other tourism-related work.
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OpenOffice.org - One Barrier Down
I've been trying to phase out my use of proprietary software like Microsoft Office, just because it makes a lot of sense to me. Not paying for software, supporting open source, using open document formats: all wonderful things. But, using products like OpenOffice.org has a few disadvantages: one of which I have overcome today.
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Web Accessibility - Balancing Elephants
Recently, I've been able to make a layout for Warren County that is too good to be true. It is completely standards compliant (xHTML 1.0 Strict, even!), very accessible (passes automatic verification on Sec. 508 and others) and still looks half good. It also works on all major browsers, degrades beautifully on those that don't support CSS, and only has some minor hiccups on browsers that have... "misguided" CSS support. It's taken tons and tons of work, and I just about peed my pants when I finished it. To a web designer, this is a thing of beauty. This is what we strive for.
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Sharepoint - First Impressions
Recently, the 'boss' came to me with a mission; Microsoft Sharepoint. Investigate, dissemenate, procreate, whatever. We needed to know what it was, what it did, and if it will take care of our information flow issues. So it began.
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