Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

It's been far too long coming, but after some pestering on #zeitgeist(sorry guys :) ), I have gotten the Activity Journal working for ou...

I mentioned that a week ago we installed a new NAS server to hold all of our documents. Now that a few tuning projects are over, I had so...

Some experimental work has been done to start checking on how well OpenOffice can connect to the Oracle database. The database is outside o...

A few people commented to me when I blogged about our MIME helper interfaces that this intermediate step would drive them crazy. As those ...

This job opening is not in my division, and I'm not involved with the hiring process. But I wanted to pass it along to anyone interested...

There is always an unknown when you deploy new software to hundreds of people. All of your testing never simulates their techniques and a f...

As I have mentioned previously, lots of technology has been awaiting the new year when we are fully staffed in order to deploy. Tomorrow we...

I have blogged about parts of this topic in the past, but the project has developed and I wanted to update the status. I have been working w...

The New Year is here and lots of technology was waiting in the wings for our staff levels to be back to normal levels now that the Holidays ...

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...