So I finally bit the bullet and switched to KDE 3.4. Those who know me will know that I am a big fan of the KDE team's work, and every version has some compelling reason to make me upgrade. There are a couple of them this time around, although as always there's a few places that need some work.

My main desktop runs Debian Sid, the "Unstable" variant. Of course, in practice it's still fairly reliable despite the name. Things do get weird on occasion, but so far nothing show stopping. It's also reasonably up to date (usually more so than Gentoo stable but less so than Gentoo unstable, or masked, or whatever they call it), but KDE 3.4 has been delayed because Sarge, the current Testing version of Debian, is soon to go stable, and the fewer big changes there are in Debian right now the easier that will go. Fair enough, I suppose. Fortunately, the Debian-KDE team has made pre-release packages available for impatient folks like me. Thanks guys! Installation was fairly smooth, except that the kdelibs-data package wanted to overwrite a file owned by kplayer (a video player based on the mplayer engine, for those not familiar with it) and kplayer wouldn't uninstall until kdelibs-data was done installing. A quick Force Overwrite (a useful Jedi power) solved that, and I was soon staring at the new and improved KDE 3.4.

Recently I was working on-site at a client's office on a small PHP project. There was one other developer working on the project with me, one of the client's full time people. The client (who shall rename nameless, but suffice to say everything went well and this is not at all a gripe against them) was a solid Windows shop, unfortunately. Windows XP on the desktop, Windows Server 2k3 on the back-end, MS SQL Server running the database. That also meant Visual Source Safe for source code management.

This is my blog. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

I didn't even really like that movie, but I've been looking for a place to use that line for a long time and this seemed like a good place. :-) This will not be the most interesting post, no doubt, but a first post rarely is.

Greetings blogging world from your latest member, a freelance web developer and technophile. More information on me will likely be forthcoming eventually, but we'll get there later. For now, this blog serves two main purposes.