I’m working on several presentations at the moment that I hope I will be able to deliver at some upcoming conferences. Like most people, in the past I have delivered presentations that largely consisted of dot points on a page, the occasional gag slide and Way. Too. Many. Words. That. I. Read. Straight. From. The. [...]
February 2, 2007
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In case you haven’t yet seen it, Dan Wilson has an excellent multipart tutorial on building a ColdFusion app with ModelGlue:Unity. I’m getting back to code after more than 18 months being a “manager”, and this is helping me get my head around ModelGlue:Unity quite quickly. I’ve only previously coded framework-based apps using Mach-II, so [...]
February 1, 2007
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Most of us have had to sit through one of those terrible “death by PowerPoint” sessions where the speaker has a gazillion slides, all covered in tiny text, garish and irrelevant animation and dumb transitions. I’m as guilty as the next guy – I’ve presented some shockers, and I’m a sucker for the sexy transitions [...]
Dear Lazyweb I have to do some work using Adobe Illustrator (eek!) for the BarCamp I’m helping to organise. I have some graphical elements in a drawing that I want to join/blend so they don’t look yuck. I have not the faintest idea of how to achieve the desired result. Anyone able to help me?
November 25, 2005
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Searching for a minor registry hack this morning, I came across Kelly’s Korner, a home for “Troubleshooting Windows XP”. Now, we all know that XP often needs a whole lot of troubleshooting, so this is a great resource. The Tweaks page is particularly useful!
November 24, 2005
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Like the subject says. I’d never bothered to write down this process in order to make it easy for myself. Always relied on memory to get me by. So, today, I’m building a new Fedora Core 4 server for a proof-of-concept forensics project I’m working on. Think I could remember the entire process? Riiiiiiight… Then, [...]