Some more reflections on what I saw at Web 2.0 Expo — I saw a great deal of technology, and there was a good deal of talk about business and marketing strategies. I’m a technologist, so I don’t get into the business and marketing aspects of all of this; but I am reflecting on what [...]
Author Archives: Mike Brennan
Adobe AIR for Data Visualization
April 26, 2008 – 2:41 pm
I’ve been attending Web 2.0 Expo and a session presenting some Adobe AIR apps got me thinking about the potentials for data visualization using RIA technologies. I may be a bit behind the curve, here. I had always thought of Flex and similar technologies in terms of animated ads or embedded video or music in [...]
Upgrading Wordpress on Ubuntu using Subversion
April 22, 2008 – 3:39 pm
Although my public blogs are hosted with an ISP, I also have Wordpress installed on my home machine for the sake of hacking and development. I have a full setup on my home machine with Apache web server, PHP, MySQL, and Wordpress. (I also have PostgreSQL and J2EE tools, but that’s another story.)
I had installed [...]
Minimalist Manna for Wordpress
April 22, 2008 – 3:05 pm
I have just switched my Wordpress theme to Milkia, a nice clean simple design based on The Sandbox theme.
I haven’t been happy with the standard themes, and most of the themes I’ve found on the web seem rather heavyweight. They just get too carried away with the graphics. I started thinking that I needed a [...]
Once a programmer, always a programmer
March 27, 2008 – 8:13 pm
Blogging is a new experience for me, but I thought I might as well take a stab at it — so here it goes.
I’ve done software development for many years. I started out doing Mac and UNIX programming in C — back in 1990, I believe. I also did Mac programming in 4th Dimension at [...]
