*Coder Blog

It’s really quite amazing to me just how many semi-major design changes can come up when nearing the end of an initial development cycle. Seasonality, for instance, has had quite a list of things come up just in the past few days, even though I “froze” the features I would include over a week [...]

Well the switch is complete. I moved everything over to WordPress and put in some web redirects. Hopefully you didn’t notice anything different if you are using a newsreader. I’m using NetNewWire here, and not only did it pick up the new RSS file and recognize that the posts were the same, [...]

Since I started this blog in November 2003 I’ve been using Blosxom. Blosxom is particularly easy to set up, is written in Perl so it’s easy to customize, and it’s post database is a directory structure of text files making for an easy backup. Lately, I’ve been wanting to add things to make [...]

If you live in or around Michigan, you’ve probably noticed the most recent string of snow storms. On Sunday we got about 10 inches of snow, and yesterday added about 2 more inches to that, along with a forecast for snow off and on for the rest of the week. As you can [...]

You may be wondering what’s been cookin’ in the Gaucho Software kitchen…or maybe you haven’t, in which case you can ignore the rest of this post. There have been a couple of projects that have come to life during the past several months, but I’ve finally decided on one to go with [...]

Dash Monitors 1.1 preview was released this morning. Version 1.1 includes two new graph modes: text and graphical. From the project web page: The text view mode shows a very simple text view of the resources being used and is beneficial because it takes very few system resources to generate the statistics. The graphical view [...]

I have this “odd” behavior when using my computer occasionally; whenever something isn’t working the way I want it to, sometimes in the moment I will just right-click on the problem area to see if there’s anything in a menu to fix it. Well, this happened to me this morning when I was composing [...]