Old Matt Zaske Blog

Perl is my friend. With that said, if you read the last (NewsMay103) news entry, you should understand what I’m talking about. I took a few hours yesterday to permanently fix the unauthorized linking problem…with the help of Perl. I don’t really know Perl, so it was challenging. But, I had a few examples of…

I’ve decided on my major personal web projects for this summer. For a long time, mzonline.com has been in need of some serious work. It’s got far too much verbage, not enough pizazz. I need to take the axe to parts of it…and keep the good stuff while making it a little more eye-candyish. So…

Woohoo! Our MFP project is nearing completion, and is actually going to be ‘comfortably’ done (meaning no last-minute stay up until 5am type of work is necessary) soon. As of this afternoon, (project is due next Wednesday (30 Apr)) we’ve got a complete parsing mechanism which actually does everything we expect it to do and…

May 10 is not all that far away, which is both good and bad. There’s lots of stuff to do…and little to no time in which to do it. Fortunately, the Modern Functional Programming project will be done with as of next Wednesday…with only a presentation to do on that. But, there’s a fair amount…

I have decided that my extra machine (sitting off to the side currently) will be my test box for RedHat 9. I’ve secured my .ISOs and put them on CD…so all I need now is time (which is not looking good for that project for another month yet). But, that’s what I plan to do…

I made another major change in the site today — it has to do with overall look (and some performance). One thing that I like a lot about TWiki in general is the header/footer information. Simultaneously, it’s also sometimes what I dislike a lot about TWiki. What I like about it is the convenience. The…

Another server box? After picking up some relatively cheap replacement parts, I’ve managed to get another box online on the network. Well, not completely online, but functioning nonetheless. I still haven’t taken time to figure out what part of the old system was hosed (either motherboard or processor), but I’m pretty sure it was the…

Summer building projects announced! I’ve got a few major upcoming projects this summer that will hopefully be a good time. I’ve been itchin’ to get out my saws and such…but won’t be able to until at least mid-May, but more realistically, June. On the list of things to do (or build, rather) this summer (not…

Oops! Well, the upgrade was mostly complete, minus one major thing: Internet Explorer I’ve never been much a fan of IE, ever. Sadly, most of the world uses it as it’s the default browser. I won’t get into a browser war with anyone — use what you like. Personally, I’ve been a fan of the…

Woohoo! The upgrade is complete! After some minor tinkering with the EMailMatt and CommentsQuestions forms and general testing, I decided to make the thing go live tonight. Some major things to note: All references to email addresses for myself have been replaced with links to EMailMatt. This page is a simple form used for me…