http://minorsoft.com Thoughts from Jared Daines Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:41:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So my site has been down for a bit... I hope nobody noticed ;) But I pulled this video off of the 37signals blog A good listen I just realized i needed a failure category since i seem to talk about it so much. http://minorsoft.com/2008/03/27/43/ I have finally stumbled on a collaborative text editor! This in combination with hamachi would make an nice virtual office where everybody could collaborate quite easily. Although I must admit that I haven't used hamachi since LogMeIn bought them up. But this is a quick way to throw together a ... http://minorsoft.com/2008/02/20/gobby/ I haven't been posting much but that is because I haven't wanted to! Okay so I should say I have been busy and all that which I have in learning cakephp, working on other things like AASPO News Site as part of the launching of the news site I put ... http://minorsoft.com/2008/02/13/ive-been-pretty-quiet-here-the-last-couple-of-months/ So I spent a bit of time developing some inkscape widgets for ui design. They are not perfect but were easy to create which might explain why nobody else has done it yet. However they are not quite what I want. If you use them you will see that they ... http://minorsoft.com/2007/10/25/inkscape-ui-widgets-continued/ I am posting this in hopes that somebody out there could help me find some UI widgets elements to do some quick interface mock ups inside of inkscape. What I am looking for are some check boxes radio buttons and other common elements that show up on websites. Powered by ... http://minorsoft.com/2007/10/25/looking-for-some-ui-widgets-to-use-in-inkscape-for-mockups/ I have tried on multiple occasions to use face book.  Yet despite all the hype out there about facebook I just don't get it. Perhaps it does ultimately come back to the fact that I am "anti-social". Now don't get me wrong its been great to reconnect with some people ... http://minorsoft.com/2007/10/19/if-i-cant-figure-out-facebook-does-that-make-me-anti-social/ I seem to be just posting videos now... I think commentary on this can go different ways. Education is changing it has to change. I think I will watch this a couple more times and post some thoughts later this month. http://minorsoft.com/2007/10/17/the-way-we-learn/ Its been a bit since I have posted. I have good excuses the best excuse is that its my blog and I can post when I want! The other good excuse is that I recently started a new job as an internet coach at Prosper learning. So between the move ... http://minorsoft.com/2007/09/28/new-job-new-place-no-time/  Just watch it. http://minorsoft.com/2007/08/29/the-changing-of-school/ Firefox is really amazing! I love it extensions. There hasn't been a time that I thought man I wish firefox would do this that I couldn't find an extension that did that. For example I was wondering if there was an extension out there that would let me run multiple ... http://minorsoft.com/2007/08/01/i-love-firefox/