Brandon Sharitt's Blog

Last night I swtiched my server from Ubuntu to Debian and so far seems to be a success. There wasn’t technically anything wrong with the old one, but when I set it up, all I had on hand was an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop install CD, so I had a lot of unneccesary desktop packages installed and being the desktop version I have a some what shorter support window and would have to upgrade in a year anyway. The public facing web server stuff was able to be set right back up, but there were a few hang ups with some of the local services, but they seem to be fine now.

Last night I tried Domino’s new pizza last night, not so much because I wanted to try it, but mostly because it was cheap. So was it any better? Technically it was better than the old pizza, but from where it was coming from, better doesn’t necessarily mean good.

Let’s start with the meats. That was one thing they really couldn’t screw up before and it’s mostly the same here. The cheese seems to be the same white cheese they keep calling mozzarella, but certainly doesn’t taste like it, but it is largely the same as most other national pizza chains.

The only real changes appear to be the sauce and the crust. The sauce has been upgraded from ketchup to a cheap jar of spaghetti sauce. Not a big change, and not exactly good, but technically an improvement. The crust is still mostly chewy cardboard, but the outer crust has been improved somewhat. Now it’s covered in the same garlic seasoning that you’d find on bread sticks. So at least the outer crust has gone from pretty much inedible garbage to free bread sticks. I’d rate that as the only real improvement. Overall, it’s the same crappy pizza now with free bread sticks.

First the old project, Junecode. It’s a project that’s been floating around in my head for a long time in a lot of forms, but never a whole lot of code to show for it. Originally I was looking for a larger scale content management system for my site, Junetech, and was using either PostNuke or PHP-Nuke, and the initial version of Junecode existed as a customized and striped down fork or which ever one of those I was using at the time. Due to it only existing on my shared web host at the time, when Junetech shutdown at that time, away went was was then Junecode.

Over time Junecode was the name I attached to the idea of a blogging system I would write, but never got around too. Finally a couple of months ago, I sat down for a weekend and threw together a minimalist blog system in PHP/MySQL, mostly to brush up on my PHP and MySQL, but I’ve decided to upload it to the long empty Junecode site on SourceForge. The project is here.

And now for a new project, Articulation. It is a GUI for Concordance to program Harmony remotes. Initially it was just going to be the current Congruity GUI with a way web rendered directly itegrated to give an experiance closer to that of the regular Logitech version. I’ve since decided to do the GUI in native GTK+ instead of wxWidgets, so I’m in the middle of a rewrite of Congruity to GTK+, then I’ll worry about the web part.