Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

During the 2008 UI Summit, one of the things that I mentioned is that once people get a file manager in software, you lose them. They don...

Our bountied OpenOffice change to add two new layout types landed in milestone 49. My thanks for Sun for accepting the patch and getting it...

Now that SLED 11 has been released and our server has arrived, I am in the process of prepping Evolution 2.24 for citywide deployment. The ...

No offense to my other heros, but the award this week goes to Chen. :) He just merged into Evolution the first set of patches to allow user...

My thanks for the comment that pointed me to PDF Shuffler. What an awesome piece of software, and a big help for us. When I first tested i...

On Monday night I installed and configured OpenOffice 3.1 for the whole City. Once again it was painless and I just had to make the change ...

As a very "back burner" project I have been experimenting with some ideas to assist our users. It has not been successful to expl...

While waiting for our Fedora ISO to download, I have been tinkering with some small-ish projects. There have been some calls about the font...

There are always multiple projects moving ahead concurrently. OpenOffice 3.1 is almost done, so this afternoon I have been prepping the dia...

I continue to test Firefox 3.1 with Flash 10 and have found it to *extremely* unstable: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault....

I think that I have gotten Flash working with pulse now to our thin clients. Here are my work notes in case this helps anyone. From our old...

The last few weeks have certainly kept me busy. I have been prepping and testing Evolution 2.24 and OpenOffice 3.1 for deployment here at t...

Being a Governmental agency, everything that we do is about record retention and long term storage. Citizens can request email messages at ...

If you have started using Acrobat Reader 9.1 on Linux, there is a nasty little bug that took me a while to locate. It's leaking files i...

Some of my coworkers have been busy testing new features and updating artwork for our development tool for custom applications. To this da...

A while back I put out a blog entry about some bounty work with OpenOffice. I was contacted my new favorite hacker, and his name is Pierre...

Shuttles have been going up almost 30 years, and it's still amazing to me. It's even better now that I live in Florida and can se...

Since we went live on the new desktop we have had a nagging issue with screendumps. From time to time the "import" command once a...

A few months ago, I built a little prototype script that generated .ics files from .recently-used files generated by OpenOffice. Very freq...

I am always one to try new things, and certainly enjoy saving money. I have a NetFlix account that I use to rent Blu-Ray movies, and for a ...