http://morison.biz/ Software how-tos, ideas, opinion and discussion on desktop, server, and web application development Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:32:20 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss092 technotes@morison.biz technotes@morison.biz en http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/70 See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8550219.stm Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:34:47 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/69 ...Due to hacking as described in http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8550219.stm Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:34:50 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/68 See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8550219.stm Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:24:44 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/67 I would like to see if are interested in a Solutions Architect job opening with Rovi in our Burbank location. Please let me know if your interested, or feel free to forward this to others who might be. Thanks! Summary: The Solutions Architect will be responsible for architecting and designing comprehensive solutions that meet with our customers’ requirements for Rovi’s Passport Interactive Programming Guide (IPG). Working side-by-side with prospective and existing customers, the Solutions Architect plays a key role in the successful selection, purchase, installation and maintenance of IPG solutions. In addition to demonstrated strengths in systems assessment ... more Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:33:58 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/50 Get Python I use boost.python, so python must be installed before building boost. No need to build from source, just get the Windows installer from http://python.org/. I'm using python 2.6 right now, haven't tried the 3.X series yet. Add C:\Python26 to your Windows PATH environment variable. (You can do it when you modify that below.) Boost Build The boost windows docs has all the instructions you really need to build boost. This guide only adapts that to my local dev conventions Get the boost source from http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/ Also, get the Windows bjam .exe, currently ... more Mon, 31 May 2010 14:29:36 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/65 Just a reminder Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:59:54 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/61 I've been doing a fair bit of PHP and Python on Linux recently. My favorite PHP editor, PhpEd is Windows only. However, I prefer to develop LAMP code on LAMP. Here's a solution: Linux on VirtualBox, networked to the host Windows OS Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:48:33 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/62 Since I did some streaming video experiments in the early years of this century I've known that maxing both directions of an internet connection kills throughput. I did some experiments, initially to improve my SIP Phone performance (when my son is playing online games, TBH) and came up with a "low-hanging fruit" solution Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:43:00 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/60 Every year or so I update CA'd certs and usually forget that my mailserver (cyrus+postfix) needs a PEM format file. Then, I have to fish around for the openssl commands that do the job Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:13:59 GMT http://morison.biz/technotes/articles/58 Ok, that's an overstatement. I used VMWare Workstation successfully for a year to develop for Win2k web servers on my XP desktop. However, when I needed an Ubuntu guest on Windows Vista host (for Python/TurboGears dev), VMWare got ugly with various host apps. I searched...and I found...VirtualBox. This doc is a loose how-to, because some steps were poorly documented Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:23:59 GMT