Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

I wanted to blog one more update before the Holidays. I'll be off the next week enjoying time with friends and family. We received a pa...

This week went quickly, along with my various projects I have been improving my python skills so that the language wasn't a hindrance to...

Yesterday I blogged about some ideas we are experimenting with to reduce printing costs. It was one of those days where you walk out the do...

Sometimes it's very hard to pack many months of conversations and needs analysis into blogs. My current project is just such an issue; ...

A conversation that has taken place over the last few months is the idea of adding portrait mode as a supported thin client workstation feat...

The weeks go very quickly around here, and I have made lots of progress on my projects. The Firefox 4 sever is basically all done and ready ...

I have been busy working on various projects and making progress. Our architecture group also had a meeting and have made some decisions ab...

Problems can be solved, they just need time. :) I had been kind of putting off a few technical issues while I explored options to see if b...

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...