School these days

Ok so I've been focusing much of my energy on work lately and I think school is starting to bite back. Not too crazy yet, but I definitely could use some sleep. Over the past week I've been staying up almost all night, getting maybe 3 or 4 hours of sleep and getting back up to face the chaos that is my day and then I take a nap for an hour or two and then wake up for another all-nighter..

I have a test tomorrow, a big quiz on next Tuesday and a (hopefully light) test next Thursday.

We shall see... Better get back to the study guide I'm still working on for that Philosophy test.

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It is either this early or this late.

expanding a vmware virtual disc

I'm going to attempt to expand the virtual disc size of a development virtual machine I use for some installers I've written. I found a gui VMDiskSize but in the notes it states I cannot resize a disc of a virtual machine that has snapshots.

For development purposes, I have various snapshots saved before and after I've made changes here or there. The snapshot manager could probably use some cleanup but its not on my priority list if I can get around having to mess with it right now.

I found a whitepaper on Using VMware Virtual Disk Manager. As always I've created a backup of the vm (which turned out to be a rather large 7-zip file) before attempting to modify anything that could render my development environment "un-bootable". (Yeah I talked to Webster and he said it was cool to make up words for blogs that no one reads)

Here's the actual documentation for the command line tool vmware-vdiskmanager

So the final command I had to run was:
vmware-vdiskmanager -x 60GB {path_to_vdisk}
(since all I needed was another 10GB on top of the already existing 50GB of storage there)

New Apple Keyboard

I went out today and bought what is probably the most expensive keyboard I've ever purchased to date.  I am going to be getting my MacBook Pro soon enough, so I figured while I was down in Oklahoma City (because I live in Stillwater now)  I might as well go ahead and get the full keyboard so I can develop a little faster at home.

Don't get me wrong, I love the keys on my dell, but it seems like I always get a lot more done when I don't have to backpeddle and find the right keys for home, insert, \, etc...  So I decided I would go ahead and get used to whatever quirks I would have to in order to jump right into the Apple scene.

I plugged this usb keyboard into my Win XP desktop and it required a reboot.  After that its been great.  It's not as touchy as my dell laptop or desktop's usb keyboard but I like it.  Maybe that whole new Apple kid feeling will wear off soon enough...  Who knows.

Talking with virtual box Ubuntu server vm

I'm having some problems connecting to a local Ubuntu server vm running on Sun's virtual box.  The vm has access to the internet (it can download and install packages via apt-get), but I cannot access the address that the ifconfig eth0 is putting out there.

The vm appears to be located on some subnet that is not reachable by my host machine.

Clear Function

http://clearfunction.com/

This is a three man web development team with good heads on their shoulders... They are doing a web application a month, and it looks kind of neat..

Some of the best designed sites online today

http://bestwebgallery.com/ - A gallery of some of the best designed sites on the web.

chilisoft asp 4.02 documentation

http://docs.sun.com/source/817-2514-10/index.html

leopard on the pc

http://dailyapps.net/2007/10/hack-attack-install-leopard-on-your-pc-in-3-easy-steps/

http://forum.osx86scene.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2008&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

photoshop: digital smoke effect

tutorial: digital smoke effect

aboveshift blog

I need to devote some time to fixing the blog at aboveshift. I believe it's still functional, but the design has broken..

Aboveshift.com needs some attention either way..

RJS Service

I spent a little bit of time learning how to create a service for MapInfo's Routing J Server using the .Net 2.0 framework. While the attempt was not in vain, it did not work on a clients machine as it did in-house.

MapInfo's RJS service install

It turns out MapInfo's Routing J Server has its own procedure for installing itself as a service right out of the box.

windows services

I wrote my first windows service today. It was relatively easy to do in C# .Net.

After building the executable, it is necessary to install the service with installutil.exe (an exe included in the .Net framework).

I expect I will be automating this with NSIS for Appian's installers.

CakePHP ajax tutorial: scriptaculous

Tutorial

possible code fix???

Turns out you need to register the helper javascript function as ajax for scriptaculous library functions???

More to come but I'm at a loss currently..

Cool photoshop collage tutorial

Make a nice collage-type print design in photoshop.

http://psdtuts.com/designing-tutorials/creating-an-old-collage-effect-poster/

some photoshop inspiration

silk screen print tutorial

http://www.screensilk.com/2007/01/full-color-screen-printing-with-photoshop/

99 resources for graphic designers

http://youthedesigner.com/2007/09/27/99-resources-a-graphic-designer-must-have#/

manual rollback of bad svn commit

http://timhatch.com/ark/2006/04/18/howto-svn-commit-rollback

peaceful

I'm enjoying the seemingly structureless musings of Daedelus.

oh and I finally picked up a copy of the last Harry Potter book.. No one has ruined it for me yet..

First cakePHP project: a CMS

I'm going to start coding a CMS in cakePHP.

Also, instead of just having a text box for the user to input information, I would like to use fckeditor. This will allow for a Microsoft Word-like interface and make it a little easier to input page content..
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/using-fckeditor-with-cakephp