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PayScale Index Released

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:47:32 +0000

My old startup (I worked at PayScale from 2005-2009) just released a new feature exposing the breadth of data they’ve acquired over the past few years. Judging by this chart, Seattle seems to have weathered the recession much better than the rest of the nation. Nice work guys! .PayScaleIndexChart { background-color: White; font-family: Verdana, Arial, [...]

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Hosting ASP.NET 2.0 Applications on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS using Apache & mod_mono

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:17:59 +0000

Being a .NET developer by trade, I’ve got several web applications written in ASP.NET that I’d like to host. Currently, I have hosting with Rackspace Cloud, and pay per hour based on the resources I’m allocating. I toyed with deploying a 2nd VM running windows, but the price was a bit steep for the kind [...]

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Installing MindTouch Deki WIki on Mac OSX Snow Leopard (10.6)

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:30:03 +0000

I run mindtouch as my wiki software. It’s been a great piece of software, and I will continue running it until I can find something better. Recently, I’ve been working to overhaul all the bsd.bz sites, and bring them under one umbrella (same theme, unified header). In an effort to better develop changes to the [...]

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“Select CD-ROM Boot Type :” prompt during Vista SP1 (or Server 2008) x64 Boot on Macbook

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:27:55 +0000

I recently discovered that there is a bug in the way Microsoft dealt with EFI boot after the Vista SP1 (2008 RTM) release. From http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931708: This problem occurs because the ETFSBOOT.COM program does not handle file versions according to the International Standards Organization (ISO) 9660 specification. Note The ETFSBOOT.COM program creates the CD boot sector. [...]

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301 Redirect in ASP.NET

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:27:23 +0000

I was working on porting an old page we have, but never quite got around to finishing it entirely, but several days of work had gone into the porting effort. I didn’t want to lose all my hard work so I figured I would check it in, but I also didn’t want people to try [...]

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