November 17, 2008: First Loss of Power in Peekskill

4 Days to Baby Day! (39 Weeks and Three Days Pregnant) Good Washington Post article about Martin Waldseemueller, the cartographer who named America and produced the first known map detailing the American Pacific coast – long before Europeans supposedly knew anything of the west coast. Alarm went off at 5:48 this morning.  I am trying …

November 16, 2008: Our First Fireplace

5 Days to Baby Day! (39 Weeks and Two Days Pregnant) Dominica and I really slept in the morning.  Only five days to go until the baby is due so all the sleep that we can get now the better.  Dad was already awake and reading when I finally came downstairs. I finished reading “Programming …

November 15, 2008: Finally My Final Grades Are In

6 Days to Baby Day! (39 Weeks and One Day Pregnant) Because I had no work scheduled for today we were all able to sleep in quite a bit this morning which was great.  With the baby coming so soon we are desperate to get any and all sleep that we can. My grades for …

Subversion Permission Issues

In my installation of Subversion (SVN) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (a.k.a. RHEL 5 or CentOS 5), I was attempting to access my working Subversion repository through the web interface using Apache.  I came across a permissions issue giving the following errors: This one is from the Apache error log (/var/log/httpd/error_log) and is generated …

The Perfect Development Environment Manual

This paper was written as my final paper for my graduate Process Management course at RIT.  The paper is based on a semi-fictional software as a service (software on demand) vendor which develops its own software and maintains its own development processes.  This document was to be formatted somewhere between a handbook and a memorandum …