• Piss and Moan

    Posted on December 10th, 2008

    Written by Howard Young

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    Mail Delivery is Jacked This Month

    OK, this is a little off topic, but I’m really in a bad mood and I needed to piss and moan.  The mail delivery was jacked with some major delays in the delivery last month.  I don’t know if it has happened to you — or if you even noticed or even care — but [...]

  • Software Development

    Posted on December 10th, 2008

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    Professor Young’s Office Hours

    I’ve been getting some really strange questions on this blog like “How do I Write Software?”  Uh, can you please be more specific?  Do you know what you are trying to build, model, etc.?  No, I just want to learn how to write software from scratch!
    So, I put on my Professors cap and believe that [...]

  • Software Development

    Posted on December 2nd, 2008

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    I’m Getting Excited About Widgets

    There’s a strange trend going around the web that brings me back earlier in my career when we thought software engineering was going the way of widgets or modules.  In a nutshell, you basically take a widget here or widget there and integrate them to build a large scale application.
    We sorta do this today on [...]

  • Hardware

    Posted on December 2nd, 2008

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    PLMS2 Still Running Strong

    I’ve been burning in the system for over 2 month now and I’m starting to gain confidence that the Dell GX280, or \\PLMS2 is working ok.  The GX280’s were recycled computers which we bought for $50 without the hard drive.  So all you had to do was go out and install a new SATA drive, [...]