Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

For a number of years we have used a global weather applet which has become very popular. The reason why this application is worth the time...

Still working on prepping GNOME 2.30 to replace our very aged GNOME 2.16 server and also on getting Firefox 4 ready. I have been testing d...

With some tinkering of lockdowns and gconf settings, I have gotten avant-window-navigator working well enough to push to some early beta tes...

Happy Monday, Work continues on the new servers and things are making nice progress. I brought down the latest release of avant-window-navi...

Dear Adobe: Thank you for the 64bit beta of the Flash player, it's starting to work better. Thank you too for the just released 9.40 ve...

I got a quiet day in today (no meetings!) to work on the new desktop design. I feel like the last major pieces are falling into place and...

Work continues on getting GNOME 2.30 ready for our employees and making great progress. One of the benefits of this project is that we wil...

Lots of things keeping me busy, but making excellent progress on building a new server to run 64bit OpenSuse 11.3 and GNOME 2.30. Now that ...

Yesterday when I posted the MIME bar prototype, I was given some ideas to make the dialog easier to use and fit better into current UI desig...

Many things are happening at once, but I have made some changes to the new MIME bars to test ideas with our users. I'm now logging on G...

One of the benefits of starting to poke at a desktop upgrade to GNOME 2.30 is being able to take what I learned the last time and making imp...

It's good to see GNOME 2.30 running on our thin clients (below). My thanks to those that helped me get this working and squash a few bu...

Just back to the office after a long weekend and I thought that I would create an update on the various projects. Recreation System The deve...

In a previous blog I had described the security camera that we selected for taking pictures of our citizens for recreation cards. We found ...

Our IT/Integration division was able to go live with the first milestone of changes to the recreation system on a new server. I haven't...

I never thought that I would such high marks to anything related to Java, but as it stands right now this is the only piece of the puzzle wo...

I was pulled off of doing Admin work for a few days to help with some technical projects and assisting in getting some pieces together for o...

I have to join the voices today that are complaining about Adobe. I'm building a multi-year 64 bit server to run our Firefox sessions...

What is interesting to me whenever we look at software and hardware to solve problems is the needless level of complexity and cost. Let me ...

Life at Largo never slows down. When you push new technology live, there is always more waiting in the wings. Here is what is going on: E...