Software Installation is an area that has many issues, and for a variety of reasons. I have but one reason how this can be: Developers suck and very few possess any foresight. It baffles me on at least a weekly basis, how a person or team of people can be smart enough to write a functional application on any platform, yet be so stunningly ignorant of the environment in which their applications will be running. They build registration data into installers. They put registry keys in place at install time, with no heuristics in-program to handle things in the event they’re not there. I could go on for a while… Everybody is guilty of it, from the biggest shops (Microsoft, Adobe, Autodesk), all the way to some open source projects.
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The future of CoRD
Posted by peelman
on March 17, 2010
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New Theme, Resume, etc.
Posted by peelman
on March 5, 2010
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I’ve been revamping WordPress recently, fixed some things on the back end that have been bothering me, applied a new theme, and posted a fresh new resume, which hadn’t been updated in about 16 months. I have no immediate plans to need a new job, but I’d rather be prepared for it in any case, given that Purdue is doing anything but making me feel secure about my job at this point.
Anybody who had anything bookedmarked with a /wordpress/ directory in the URL should be getting redirected to the home page now. Prior to WordPress, I used CodeIgniter, which lived at the root of peelman.us. When I installed WordPress, I wasn’t sure if I was going to like it or not, so I stuffed it into a sub-directory of the site, http://peelman.us/wordpress and did some funky .htaccess rules to redirect requests there. Its been almost two years since I switched, and I haven’t looked back, so I figured it was time to adjust things. WordPress is now the site root, so I apologize in advance for any broken links or issues getting to content.