Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

Sometimes your plans for the day are altered greatly because of external circumstances. Nomachine released the latest NX 4 preview last ni...

It's wonderful to have ideas in your head and be able to quickly get them prototyped and running. Using Glade and Python, I was able to...

Usually when there are improvement areas in IT, we already know about them and have them in our heads. The roadblock is almost always the n...

As I continue to close up the last of the minor issues with the new GNOME desktop, I decided to quickly implement a dialog that appears afte...

I'm not sure what it says about a person if this seems fun, but today I worked on improving some of our internal scripts that allow our ...

As the GNOME desktop project is getting closer to completion, I spent some time testing an idea that I have had for a while: Offer another ...

We are inching closer and closer to going live with the new GNOME desktop upgrade for our thin clients. With all of the complexities of hun...

I haven't blogged for a while but have certainly been busy. Things I worked on this week: Print Job Data The project to generate print ...

Just wanted to pass along a little trick that I use when writing software. About half of our 600 monitors are still 1024x768. We don't...

After some short meetings with our Director and other staff, there seemed to be some excitement about analyzing our printing data. They gav...

As part of the GNOME desktop upgrade, a project has been initiated that is near and dear to my heart -- printing. There is a strong culture...

The week has been productive. One smaller project that I completed was resyncing avant-window-navigator to the latest versions and deployi...

While we do run a lot of open source and Linux software, of course there are still some applications that run in Microsoft Windows. I perso...

There is always a period of time after you requisition hardware that you are a little nervous about performance. Very happy to report that ...

A Word About UI Design And Artwork I have always been a person that shows screenshots and mockups when blogging. I find that when I read ot...

I was off for almost two weeks, the first time that I have taken an extended vacation and it sure helps recharge the batteries. Some things...

The project to use an iPad as a thin client is nearly ready to push out to beta testers and the current prototype UI is below. Nice big but...

The iPad work flow that I mentioned the other day is working well. The original design was going to put documents into a 7/8ths screen mod...

If you have been reading my blogs through the years, you know that I consider it to be our top priority to reduce waste, run computers as ef...

Email and Calendaring is still being reviewed to build a list of all available options and ideas. We had our first high level conference ca...