Websites, CMS’s, MySQL, PHP and … Perl? Posted at: Sat, Oct 24th, 2009 | 5:31PM UTC By Josh Ashby

One of the difficulties with maintaining a personal project site, such as this one (http://joshashby.com) is updating the content. Once upon a time, when my site was less than a year old and on the freeweb network, I manually opened my pages, added the content I wanted, and saved/closed the file. This worked fine for me, except for the fact that I could not modify, and update my site from any computer. Read more…

SparkFun Gets C&D Posted at: Fri, Oct 23rd, 2009 | 7:32PM UTC By Josh Ashby

The great people over at SparkFun Electronics (they supply about half the stuff for my robots) recieved a Cease and desist letter from SPARC industries for “trademark infringement”. Read more…

Updates and Halloween Posted at: Thu, Oct 22nd, 2009 | 9:15PM UTC By Josh Ashby

You may have noticed that as of the morning of Thursday October 22, 2009, the sites navigation bars are no longer red, but in fact a Halloween orangeish yellowish color in celebration of Halloween.

In other news: Read more…

Bedroom Servers Posted at: Sun, Oct 18th, 2009 | 8:45PM UTC By Josh Ashby

Every one should have one of these servers, it’s got folder and cd drive sharing (Samba), ssh capabilities, a development web server (Xampp), a private IRC chat network (oftc-hybrid), and and OpenVZ server. In this how to I’ll walk you through setting up one of these servers, but please note I will not cover any items of major security, this is up to you to decide how to lock down your computers. My server is running Ubuntu 9.04 and all the commands that I give will be fore Ubuntu and all the menus will be for Gnome. This How To assumes you have a good idea of how to use the Linux terminal, enough that you can manage a system that has no GUI such as Gnome or KDE. It also assumes that you have Ubuntu 9.04 installed, internet access for installing the programs (and reading this), and time. Finally, it assumes that you will do your own research into these packages, and know how to use and configure them properly for your need; this How To Read more…

BOB Brochure Posted at: Sat, Oct 3rd, 2009 | 6:26PM UTC By Josh Ashby

Well, finally had some time off of school to get a new updated brochure for BOB, here it is: BOB Handout I hopefully to get some time to work on BOB soon, I got a single board P1 pc from my FIRST coach to mess around with and I hope to get it up and running with a linux system and on BOB.

I also got a logo for the Bouncing Off Bumpers project complete: