Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

I have been busy the last few weeks QAing software for deployment. OpenOffice 3.0 is running well, and has been pushed to our beta testers ...

This last week, I have been busy doing QA work on Evolution 2.24 with the Groupwise backend and submitting all of the issues to Novell. San...

In the last few weeks major projects that were consuming time have been completed. The new desktop servers have gone live and it's time...

I just got back to Florida after spending a few days at the UI Hackfest in Boston. It was my pleasure to meet everyone and watch the proces...

After some logistical work with Federico and myself, we have coordinated me going to the Boston UI Summit. I'll be doing a presentation...

I have been thinking more lately about Federicos "Document Centric" presentation. Document and file management is by far the hard...

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...