http://www.joechin.com/ Software develop, technology, thoughts, and life. en-us 2010-06-16T15:18:39+01:00 http://www.joechin.com/movabletype/archives/2010_06.html#000175 I've just arrived back from a very long trip. A trip to Hawaii to see my sister get married. It was a hell of a long trip and completely worth it. I'm still in the process of sorting through the... yardie 2010-06-16T15:18:39+01:00 http://www.joechin.com/movabletype/archives/2010_05.html#000174 If you’ve been under a cave than you probably haven’t heard that Valve’s Steam game service is now available for Mac. I’ve had an on/off relationship with Steam over the years. Using it on a PC, getting a Mac and... Software yardie 2010-05-13T11:42:16+01:00 http://www.joechin.com/movabletype/archives/2010_05.html#000173 Welcome To get started, create a new entry by clicking on "New Entry" in the toolbar or choosing "New Entry" from the File menu. You can also drag files from the Finder in to the Sidebar or the Entries list... Software yardie 2010-05-09T14:21:50+01:00 http://www.joechin.com/movabletype/archives/2010_04.html#000172 As a developer I don't enjoy paying for things when I don't have to. One of them happens to be Apples iPhone Developer program. I could find better ways of spending $99. Debugging my own stuff isn't one of... All Things Mac yardie 2010-04-21T17:40:20+01:00 http://www.joechin.com/movabletype/archives/2010_03.html#000171 Ker-plink! That was the sound of the hard drive in my Hackintosh that died. While normally I've been a stand up guy about archiving (not to be confused with backups) of data. In this case the blood drained from my... yardie 2010-03-12T20:42:34+01:00 http://www.joechin.com/movabletype/archives/2010_03.html#000170 For the Media Center enthusiasts, like me, I'd like to point out a new version of Media Browser has been released for the public. Except for the pictures and music, Media Browser is how I view most of my videos... Software yardie 2010-03-01T16:47:13+01:00 http://www.joechin.com/movabletype/archives/2010_01.html#000169 I've been watching the Windows Home Server market for a while. It looks to be successful and Microsoft is aiming for version 2. Today, the screenshots of the next edition have been leaked. You can view them here. Some notable... Software yardie 2010-01-29T11:33:13+01:00 http://www.joechin.com/movabletype/archives/2010_01.html#000168 I know I'm a little late but I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year. I was celebrating with my son and didn't have time to post on this blog. Because we bought a house and all the... yardie 2010-01-04T13:04:24+01:00 http://www.joechin.com/movabletype/archives/2009_12.html#000167 The support server at the office has been using redmine for a few years. When I set it up way back in the days it was configured to use a mongrel cluster behind an apache server. This setup has been... All Things Linux yardie 2009-12-29T13:34:23+01:00 http://www.joechin.com/movabletype/archives/2009_12.html#000162 Mono I've downloaded, installed and used the Mono project IDE on my Mac. Compared to the last time I tried it many years ago it's not so bad. I created a small Windows application and the debugger was able... yardie 2009-12-21T19:19:06+01:00 http://www.joechin.com/movabletype/archives/2009_12.html#000160 See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via web from joechin's posterous... yardie 2009-12-21T19:18:31+01:00 http://www.joechin.com/movabletype/archives/2009_12.html#000159 I finally got off my ass and set the blog back up again. Lot's of security changes and permissions to set and reset. Now I've got the one little headache of fixing my CSS. I've never been able to get... yardie 2009-12-05T14:14:55+01:00 http://www.joechin.com/movabletype/archives/2009_12.html#000152 Well it's taken a little while but I finally took the blog out of storage. Found a new host and now I'm back and blogging. The server has been upgraded from a little duty shared hosting service to a medium... yardie 2009-12-02T19:25:23+01:00 http://www.joechin.com/movabletype/archives/2009_02.html#000151 Before the holidays the office got to request new computers. This has been going on for at least a year I think. My boss would say, "let's order new computers", I would work it out with my colleagues and we... yardie 2009-02-05T12:44:02+01:00 http://www.joechin.com/movabletype/archives/2009_01.html#000150 This site provides a great reference of when and where to use tables instead of css for page layout http://www.shouldisusetablesforlayout.com... yardie 2009-01-21T12:52:02+01:00