http://nonparametrics.com geekdom without assumption Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:09:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Being the idealist that I am, naturally linux is my operating system of choice. In fact, I don't remember the last time I booted something else on one of my machines. Maybe minix, a couple years ago. At any rate, there is a price to pay for jumping off of ... http://nonparametrics.com/2009/10/15/lightscribe-on-linux/ If you're anything like most developers I know, then time management, project management, and organization are not among your most natural strengths. Thank goodness Wikipedia has a list of project/ticketing systems to ease the pain; if only it wasn't so long that it takes several weeks to read, let alone ... http://nonparametrics.com/2009/10/10/project-madness-management/ Alyssa sent me a really cool article on interface design today. I resonate with this one particularly because simplicity in software and SaaS (Software as a Service) is one of my standard soap-boxes. I believe that a large part of the gap between techies and the real world can be ... http://nonparametrics.com/2009/10/07/interface-tuning/ One of my buddies turned me on to an awesome new tool a few months back. If you're not familiar with analytics, then you owe it to your geekiness to get in touch. Analytics allow you to see ( with non-personally identifiable information ) how--and how much--your site is being ... http://nonparametrics.com/2009/09/29/analytics-without-the-man/ After a long and ardorous battle to claim the time required for it, I have decided to make use of my long-parked domain, nonparametrics.com. The intent is to migrate all of the techie posts from my personal blog, bryanjeffrey.com, over to this site and allow readers to abstain from the ... http://nonparametrics.com/2009/09/27/tech-for-the-techies/ Given the high volume of quality content <wink wink>  on this blog, I'm sure that many were heart broken when the server hosting this had a harddrive hiccup and downed for 10 days.  If you didn't notice, I don't blame you. I keep telling myself and everyone else that I ... http://nonparametrics.com/2008/04/07/the-last-fedora/ I'm sure that you've all heard me sing the glories of Linux at some point, and probably most of you know that I run Ubuntu (among other OSes). I'm constantly impressed by the relative ease of use and how quickly it is continually improving. I've got 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) running ... http://nonparametrics.com/2007/11/07/man-with-a-mirror/ I purchased a third-party signed certificate for one of our sites to get rid of the annoying security warnings. There are a dozen sites running on the server, so I have been using named virtual hosts in apache in order to avoid wasting valuable ips. I went through the whole ... http://nonparametrics.com/2007/05/10/ssl-and-virtual-hosts-in-apache-2/