May 10, 2016: Oracle … Grrrrr!

I yearn for a development environment that just works together. No competing technologies and conflicting software that doesn’t like to play well with one another, and no hours upon hours wasted fighting configurations before I can even start the work that I’m supposed to be working on all this time!!! So in other words, the opposite of how I’ve spent the better…

May 2, 2016: Code vs Words

Sometimes I find myself torn between wanting to write and wanting to just play around in geeky, developer stuff all day, and today was definitely one of those days. Of course, the dev projects that I have to work on aren’t exactly the types that I felt like working on today … so I suppose…

Mar 8, 2016: Code Monkey

Today is one of those days when I pretty much spent the entire day going through code. My day job is kind of split between development and administrative work, so it goes back and forth what I spend my time on from one day to another. In addition to implementing some new functionality that we’re…

Feb 24, 2016: 26 Terabytes

It’s been a little over a year since I started my little media server project and rebooted the idea of having a home server to store media, docs, and local backups on.  To think, what began on an old, discarded laptop and then migrated to my desktop hardware when I replaced it with my MacBook…