Grailbox Blog

I Should Have Brought My Mac

Originally posted 2006-02-14 05:12:48 My work-issued laptop is a Dell Latitude D610 with a 2.1 GHz Pentium M processor, 2 GB RAM, and a 60 GB hard drive. It runs Windows XP Professional. It’s...

HIMSS 2006 Day 1

Originally posted 2006-02-13 05:12:31 The HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) 2006 Conference kicked off in San Diego with a reception last night. I flew out from Jacksonville, FL, yesterday morning with my...

Treo 650 and Smart Phones

Originally posted 2006-02-13 04:58:27 I’ve used a PDA since 2000. I started with the Handspring Visor Deluxe, later adding the VisorPhone to it. I graduated to a Treo 180, which I used until the...

Password Policy

Originally posted 2006-02-10 14:25:07 An internal audit at the company where I work determined that we should strengthen our corporate password policy. Consequently, our head of data security drafted a new policy and began...

Playing with Core Data

Originally posted 2005-11-24 10:50:32 I continue to delude myself into believing that I’m going to learn Objective-C and Cocoa. My bookshelf droops like a swaybacked cayuse with all the Cocoa and Objective-C books I’ve...

Logitech io2

Originally posted 2005-10-14 14:10:23 A few weeks ago, I bought a Logitech io2 Digital Writing System. Now that I’m in management, I attend numerous meetings, I take copious notes, I jot down multiple to-dos,...

Testing Tools

Originally posted 2005-08-25 07:09:56 While at JavaOne last June, I wandered past Cenqua’s booth. The brochure for Clover caught my eye, so I spent some time chatting with one Cenqua’s reps about it. I...

Crossing the Great Divide

Originally posted 2005-08-07 18:06:23 Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Thus penned Dylan Thomas, the great Welsh poet, to his dying father. I felt...

Eclipse Project Settings

Originally posted 2005-07-13 06:12:12 I just came across this, which explains how to put Eclipse project settings like code styles in version control. Eclipse continues to amaze me with how they’re advancing the state...

Source Control

Originally posted 2005-07-13 05:49:40 Last night, I gave a presentation to The Jacksonville Developers User Group titled “Source Control Using CVS, Subversion, and AccuRev.” You can download the Powerpoint file here, or view it...