Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

I was asked to publish the objectives of our OpenOffice Writer test. The goal of this testing is to increase skills, and will also be used ...

I've blogged about it before; users have a deep emotional connection with Microsoft Office. I'm not talking about those of you that...

I am starting to get some numbers for those of you interested in GNOME performance, and for those that are considering deployments. Our GNO...

I have been busy working on the new desktop deployment. I have been training employees and granting permissions for those that will have US...

After over a year of work, terminal upgrades, patches and custom UI's we have locked in a date for the whole City to migrate to the new ...

I read with interest this page concerning ideas and changes for the main-menu (slab) in GNOME. I have about 100 people deployed on it righ...

I have been reading a lot of blogs concerning the future direction of GNOME. Here are my comments based on the needs of Government/Busines...

We always are testing ideas for lowering the costs associated with employees that have to work in the field. In years past, many of the EVD...

The IT services provided for Governmental workers is mostly "internal". This is especially true at a City level. When your taxpa...

Everyone is back in the office so we are gearing up for deploying the 3D desktop with our thin clients. One issue that we have finalized is...

I've mentioned it in the past, but one thing that eludes developers is the passion that users have for eye candy and especially printout...

If you work full time and own a home, it's very easy to lose almost all of your hours of the day. 4-5 times a week I try and get on my ...

We use a development tool for City applications that is using the Motif widgets. When I have more time, I'll create a detailed blog abo...

Off and on I have been tinkering with screenlets. Poking around, I found that the dbus-python package that ships with OpenSuse 10.2 does not...

We have been incrementally adding features to our new HP thin clients. The initial install gave the users their previous functionality, wi...

One of the biggest misconceptions about running software on servers is that it will be slower than having a local personal computer. My exp...

In March we will be putting the new OpenSuse 10.2 server live to our thin clients, with support for 3D/Compiz. Federico is always very cool ...

I have loaded Firefox 3.0 (Beta 3) on our production server for testing. I also am testing the newer version of Flash that was released in ...

One of the things that I am tasked with this year is improving relations between OpenOffice and our users. From a technical perspective i...

Many thanks for "wodor" for updating the anaglyph plugin to compile with the latest version of Compiz. While certainly one could ...