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Sorry

David Freerksen — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:55:30 +0000

I’ve been horrible with making posts. I keep forgetting or I tell myself I’ll do it tomorrow. I’ll try to do better from now on.

Soon to come though, at some point I want to switch away from WordPress and build this site on PyroCMS. PyroCMS is build on Codeigniter, which I love and know try well. So maybe I can build some plugins for it after I switch over. I’m also learning Backbone.js and Node.js so that should be interesting. Eventually I’ll post code also.

Can’t Argue With That Logic

David Freerksen — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:07:39 +0000

To the shores of Tripoli

David Freerksen — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:21:46 +0000

Before the uprising in Libya, even though it is part of the Marine Corps Hymn, I really doubt most Marines knew were Tripoli was located. ‘To the shores of Tripoli’ in the Marine Corps Hymn stems from the Battle of Derne. It is the first recorded land battle fought overseas by the United States. It was after this battle that 1st Lt. O’Bannon was presented the Mameluke sword, which is still worn by Marine officers today.

More Marines are aware that ‘The Halls of Montezuma’ is from the Battle of Chapultepec, only because it is from this battle that we get the blood stripe that NCOs wear to commemorate the Marines that died during this battle. I doubt most Marines know that the Battle of Chapultepec was fought during the Mexican-American War were US forces fought Mexican forces holding Chapultepec Castle located west of Mexico City.

Civilian Life

David Freerksen — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:50:44 +0000

I am officially a civilian now. I just got my discharge papers in the mail.

First Open Source Project

David Freerksen — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 02:34:16 +0000

I just signed up for an account with Bitbucket and created my first project. I am going to be creating an open source bug tracker built on Codeigniter 2. I am going to model it based on JIRA which is a JSP bug tracker, but I have a few more plans for it. It’s just started on it and there isn’t much to see just yet. Just give me time. I am using MacHG to do all of my Mercurial commits.

I am also gearing up towards working on an open source CMS based on Codeigniter named Combustion CMS.

Testing

David Freerksen — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:08:48 +0000

Testing out creating a post from my Android phone. Android is so cool!

CSS Naked Day

David Freerksen — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:34:34 +0000

Yesterday was CSS Naked Day. CSS Naked Day was thought up by Dustin Diaz. The purpose of CSS Naked Day is to to promote Web Standards; including proper use of XHTML, semantic markup, and a good hierarchy structure. In other words it disables your CSS for for a 24 hour period in order to promote web standards.

I forgot that yesterday was CSS Naked Day. So when I went to my site, I was pissed that my site was jacked up. My first thought was that my site was hacked. The styling was gone but all of the content was there. Which didn’t make sense why a hacker would do that. That I realized what happened.

That was my first CSS Naked Day that I participated in. It was pretty cool. Click on the image to see a screenshot of my site during CSS Naked Day. Also, a “thank you” goes to Aja Lupas for creating the WordPress CSS Naked Day plugin that I used.

Menu Items

David Freerksen — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:39:31 +0000

I guess I never noticed it, but I have a lot of menu icons! In order from left to right is:

Adium
Waveboard
Tweetie
BetterTouchTool
Alfred
Dropbox
Google Notifier – Calendar
Google Notifier – GMail
Caffeine
MobileMe Sync
Time Machine
Bluetooth
Wireless
Audio/Volume
Time
Spotlight

Check out a screenshot of all of them on my desktop:

Macbook Pro

David Freerksen — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:47:26 +0000

After almost a month without a laptop, I finally got one again. You’d be surprised how much wish you had a laptop when don’t have one. It is a 15″ Macbook Pro. 2.66 GHz processor. 4Gb RAM.

Now I get to go through and install all of the software and set up all of my preferences.

My home command center is almost complete!

Darth Vader

David Freerksen — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:12:56 +0000

I have some kind of obsession with Darth Vader. I don’t even like the Star Wars movies, but I really like Darth Vader. At work, they changed my name of my phone to say ‘Darth Vader’. So when I call someone, their phone says like Darth Vader is calling them. How cool is that!