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Hello! Welcome to acidlabs. You look to be new here, so you may want to read about Stephen Collins, the work of acidlabs, or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This short talk is to be delivered to the IBM Smarter Workforce – Government Leadership Forum on 9 September 2009.
“Every dystopia is a [...]
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The ACME Guide
Written by Stephen Collins and downloaded over 2000 times since March 2006, The ACME Guide (.pdf, ~7.5Mb) 3rd Edition is a valuable resource for ColdFusion developers of all levels. It provides detailed instructions on how to prepare a PC or Mac workstation for development using ColdFusion and several Open Source tools including the [...]
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MAKE have posted a way cool list of geek-worthy Open Source gifts for the holiday season. I already have a couple of the items there (EFF Membership, PortableApps Suite).
For me, the Neuros OSD and LEGO Mindstorms NXT REALLY appeal.
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Fyodor, of nmap fame, has put together a new list of the Top 100 Network Security Tools based on feedback from users on the nmap-hackers list. I use several of these tools, and certainly the top 20 or so should definitely be in any security analyst’s toolbox.
Check them out!
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While further exploring the idea of virtual desktops on OS X, as I wrote about the other day, I have come across VirtueDesktops. Based on the original DesktopManager codebase, VirtueDesktops brings teh sexxay to desktop management on OS X.
It seems to be very stable, and, as stated by the developer “under active development”, whereas [...]
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If, like me, you are a PowerBook owner who has either:
used a desktop with multiple monitors
used a *nix distro
you’ll be familiar with the concept of using multiple desktops, either physical or virtual In order to improve your productivity. In Linux/Unix of pretty much every flavor, this has been standard fare for just about [...]
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Issues fixed! .pdf available for your downloading pleasure!
As promised, I have released the 3rd Edition of The ACME Guide to accompany my presentation on ACME development at webDU.
The new version has a number of new features including:
both Windows and OS X installation guides
basic information on using source code management (SCM) tools with your ACME [...]
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Last week, I blogged about the Google Pack. The folks at Lifehacker thought they could do better and came up with the Lifehacker Pack.
I have to agree – more software (many the same), often better, more tasks and activities covered. Get it!
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I was looking at my site stats this morning and saw this. “WTF is Shiira?”, I asked myself.
Well, it turns out that Shiira is a Japanese project to write a “browser that is better and more useful than Safari” based around Apple’s Web Kit. So far, it looks pretty sweet, and you’ve got [...]
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