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Hello, I am an Open Source Developer

Zack Rusin’s blog post from a week ago really resonated deep within me on a couple of points. His post, titled “Disappointing”, was written in response to some negative feedback he got from some mis-guided souls who were commenting on one of his earlier posts about some very impressive Qt graphics results he’d shown. While blog-commenters behaving badly is not something new, certainly, nor is one (very) talented Open Source developer having to set said folks straight, that’s not what caught my eye. I was truly impressed with the benchmarking results that Zack reported with Qt, compared to some of the other toolkits, but that’s not what caught my eye either. What jumped out at me most was his definition of self and purpose, if you’ll forgive the generalization:

SUSE 10.1 On A Powerbook

So, no, it’s not nearly as easy as it should be; it’s not nearly as easy as it is in kubuntu; and it has consumed the last few days of my life. But I’ve gotten things working for the most part and since I’ve been utterly unable to find any help on ye olde ‘net about the problems I faced, I’ll post some of my pain and learnings here…

Blogging From My Treo

This would be a test, then, of wordpress, plogit, and manual dexterity of man hands and really tiny keyboard buttons!!

Fix for Linux PPC, IBM JDK, and Moneydance Bug

Wow. You know… I’ve worked around this annoyance for FAR too long… I’d blogged previously (5 months + ago???) about a bug that affects Moneydance with IBM’s JRE/JDK (you know… the ONLY one that you can find for Linux PowerPC!!) with online transaction downloading. So I decided to poke at it a bit again today and what do you know? I found a solution! As it turns out, to solve the moneydance problem with SSLContext and IBM’s JRE, change $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security like this:

That Which Takes My Time

It’s a frustrating thing to not have enough time to do that which you want. Or rather, there are so many things that I do want to do and so many things that I do need to do that there are choices that must be made to be a responsible, loving husband, Daddy, employee, hacker, game-player, and Christian.

UltraViolet

Just finally had the chance to see this tonight and I was very pleasantly surprised! I wasn’t honestly sure what to expect from the commercials, but it was much better-done and much less focused on over-the-top gore and violence than I had thought. Bravo to Kurt Wimmer for that!! And honestly, bravo to Mr. Wimmer for an incredibly well-thought-out, well-crafted, well-shot, well-cast, and well-executed piece of film. Amazing.