http://holyarmy.org tagline, tagline, what is the tagline? Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:37:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I got a real kick out of reading this blog post today. It's cool to see good feedback on the company I work for and our flagship product, Clearspace. Of course, since I'm friends with Matt (mentioned in the post), it's nice to know he's doing a good job. Gotta keep ... http://holyarmy.org/2008/07/24/i-like-jive I have to use VPNs at work. Specifically, to access my production webservers (etc), I have to use a Cisco VPN client. Sadly, the VPN concentrator overrides my choice of allowing local LAN access. So, when I am on the VPN, I have my DNS options changed so I can't ... http://holyarmy.org/2008/07/23/fight-back-when-vpn-clients-mis-behave I had this error popup today on my Mac OS X Lepopard 10.5.4 machine. This is not cool as, well, I NEED MY VPN TO WORK! Thankfully google came to my rescue. The solution is to execute the following in Terminal: sudo /System/Library/StartupItems/CiscoVPN/CiscoVPN restart Thanks for the answer, VirtuallyShocking.com. http://holyarmy.org/2008/07/22/beating-the-cisco-vpn-client-error-51-on-leopard I use Ant for my Java projects. It's a great and powerfule build too. However, there's always more than can be done to improve the quality of the build process. I found this nice article that gives some good examples of a complete build process with Ant: dev, test, prod, etc. http://holyarmy.org/2008/06/20/good-post-on-using-ant-for-solid-build-process As I mentioned recently, I've been using pre-release versions of Firefox 3 for a while now. I've been happy, but today is great because FF3 was officially released! They are trying to set the record for most downloads in a day, so go get it! http://holyarmy.org/2008/06/17/i-downloaded-firefox-3 I knew I-80 was closed due to flooding, but I didn't know exactly why. This article makes it vey clear. Check out the photo. http://holyarmy.org/2008/06/16/i-80-closed-due-to-flooding I'm currently packing to move to Portland, Oregon, but I grew up in the Iowa City, Iowa area and have lived in the Des Moines, Iowa area for the last 5 years. The last week has brought massive flooding to much of the mid-west, Des Moines and Iowa City included. There's ... http://holyarmy.org/2008/06/14/flood-tragedy-in-the-mid-west Since moving to the Mac, I've tried to use Safari almost exclusively. I definitely like it, and it's got some great tools, but I usually found myself running back to Firefox 2 whenever I had to really do work on a website because I really like some the power Firefox ... http://holyarmy.org/2008/06/05/firefox-3-rc2-is-out I just stumbled onto the coolest little app for Mac. Plainview is a web browser based on WebKit (also the guts of the Safari browser). What's unique is it's intended to NOT have chrome (the name for all tose fancy navigation bars, address text boxes, menus etc). It's slim... so ... http://holyarmy.org/2008/06/05/plainview-presentations-ala-web Aaron (one of my co-workers), recently posted a link about OpenID. I've given OpenID only cursory glances over the last year, but the Coding Horror link in Aaron's post had a comment to this Google Video where Simon Willison gives a Google Tech Talk on The Implications of OpenID. The ... http://holyarmy.org/2008/05/27/investigating-openid