ItsAllEasy

So, as you may have noticed…I got a powerbook finally! Some quick things on it:

• The battery life is not that great. Granted, I’m used to having 2 batteries (in all the time) making my old battery life around 7 hours. Now it is just over 2 hours. I’ll probably be getting another battery.
• The trackpad jumps (sometimes) when I tap it to click. This happens about 1 in every 5 clicks. It can be pretty damn annoying when you are clicking a link that is above another link…like a save link that is above a delete link…oh yeah, you’ll click delete. I already hesitate when clicking…I see myself actually using the trackpad button for clicks.

Other than that I love the thing. Well…the little I’ve done with it so far anyway. I can’t really dig in until I get Tiger (the new OS for you non-mac folks). That should be in the mailbox today.

The laptop has arrived.

I wish I had more time (doesn’t everyone?). I want to look at:
Ruby
Groovy
Spring Web Flows
XUL
Tapestry
Spring MVC
TestNG
Equinox/AppFuse
XmlHttpRequest

Books:
Beauty of CSS Design
J2EE W/O EJB
Tom Kyte’s books (had 2…need them again…work owned them)
(many more I’m sure).

I’ll get around to it all I’m sure…eventually.

I’m the webmaster for d8toastmasters.org. It is the website for District 8 Toastmasters (speaking club). I didn’t design the site, I’m currently just maintaining it. I want to put up a content management system so that the district officers (and members) can help publish content (or make posts that need to be approved). I’ve looked at php-nuke, post-nuke and mambo. I don’t really like any of them. Post nuke fit best, but I don’t like their article/category/content arrangement. It has to be super simple for the user (SUPER SIMPLE). I primarily need news articles, categories, calendar, static content, and it would be nice to have a custom module for management of the district structure. I really don’t want to write one (CMS) myself.

Like I said, PostNuke seems to fit pretty well…I just don’t think it is easy enough for my users. Well, it wasn’t the last time I looked at it. I tried to install it last night (via cpanel) and it wouldn’t startup (cannot create session).

Oh well, I’ll look into it some more. I guess I could write some custom district8 modules to make it simpler for what they want to do.