Category: Projects

Current projects I’m working on

Revisiting development environment

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So running Aptana through a JRE via USB which also hosts the SVN and apache/mysql/ftp servers turned out not so great.

I’ve removed Aptana and the JRE from the flash drive.
Aptana now needs to be installed and configured (just once) on whichever machine I’m using to develop on (usually my desktop and laptop).

It will now only host the XAMPP setup and Aptana workspace files.

XAMPP’s servers aren’t really affected by the “slow” USB flash drive, and once Aptana loads its workspace files they stay in RAM from what I can tell.

Very interesting

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Just attached Windows Live Domain to my .com here.

So far pretty interesting in that now with the help of the Outlook.com app on my Android phone I’ve regained the ability to sync between my phone and desktop.

I honestly looked into this after Google and MS had a spat apparently and now they barely talk to each other (lost my calendar sync!).

Now not only do I have my calendar again, but now I get all sorts of cool sub domains to attach Live services to my main domain!

It also kicks Google Apps in the shins since it’s still free, supports more users, and apparently provides the same services.

And to top it off, my webmail interface kicks directly to Outlook.com, very nice.

Office 365

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Just got my complementary copy of Office 365 (working in retail has its perks).

Going to see what the new features can do for the average person.

I’ll be learning the new stuff that Office can do, which will be interesting because I barely use it at all.
Granted I WANT to use it more often.
I’m sure I’m missing out on something!

A New Year!

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A happy new year to everyone!

It’s also around this time I’ll actually be planning database layouts and getting into some actual code (holy crap!).

Stay tuned.

Doing things the hard way

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Trying a different method of installing Windows 8 when I get it.

I’m going to attempt to create my own custom installation that will not only install Windows 8 on my PC, but it will also reference a script from my NAS and install most of my software!
Why reference a script instead of just installing Win8 and creating a recovery image?
One, it’s BORING!
Two, I have the advantage of updating and replacing software installs on my NAS so when I goto re-load Windows (either from clutter or me breaking it) I can have the latest versions of apps installed.
Doing it that way I won’t have to do so many updates to my favorite programs (Yay Windows is loaded! Boo I have to update all my programs!).

Going to make a nice recovery partition and everything just like the OEMs do!

This is gonna be fun!