The Atlanta Linux Meetup(.com) Meeting will be held Tuesday, April 5, at the Oaks at Buckhead.

This month’s topic is Fedora Core Linux. We’ll be discussing the Fedora Project (Red Hat’s community based distro), and then diving in and doing an install of Fedora Core 3 on a fresh PC.

Come one, come all, but RSVP…. Atlanta Linux Meetup.com

http://fedora.redhat.com/
http://www.fedorafaq.org/
http://www.fedoraforum.org/

Has SeeBQ turned into a dot net shop? Has SeeBQ sold out, abandoning his Open-Source mantra — the one he swore to on the blood of a Microsoft OEM single-licence 1-2 CPU holographic license booklet?

No! Though, it is true, I’m coding like a fiend here in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, I’ve been justifying because it is just sooo much fun. The .NET IDE is just plain tight. Intellisense completion of code as you write (I know Eclipse and Netbeans got it too, shush), automatic deployment to Mobile Pocket PC 2003 devices (and the built-in emulators), ability to deploy and debug Web Services (not to mention how easy it is to write a simple one), the list goes on and on!

The whole blogging process is hard to explain to people. Why would you want to put your journal on-line? Why would your day-to-day musings be of any importance to the “World Wide Web” - the global community of people all around the world? Who cares?

Well, I care. Maybe, it’s just for me. In case you haven’t noticed, the title of this page, is “shameless self promotion.”

And, maybe it isn’t for the global community, but rather the community that is formed by me and my friends. Or maybe, again, it’s just me.

So I’m going to just accept it, and let it all out. I’m going to share myself with me.

This entry is coming off as defensive, when I really wanted it to be more of a discovery — or a justification. I find that many of my blog postings never go live. I’ll write about how much I despise travel, or want to link to some really funny, really dirty jokes, or good reads. Man, fuck it! I’m just going to post and link everything! I’m letting it all out!

Ahhh, it’s good to be home. Lots of news on the home-front as well. I’ve taken a new job, and it is quite frankly, awesome. I’m working for US Micro Corporation as a go-to guy on various Technology projects (sorry no link, the web-site is one of the projects). The first involving deploying a Service-Enabled architecture comprising a Windows Mobile (Pocket PC) front-end for some slick mobile PDA smartphones that call a web-service on a secure App Server which in turn runs applications on their Navision server running on SQL. It’s quite impressive. The next few projects on the horizon are looking good too! More importantly, this job places me near the ultimate goal, which is to not only empower myself through future opportunities like this one, but empowering other people to seek and obtain opportunities and succeed in their dreams!

It was tough leaving Jacada — what an amazing place to work, filled with incredibly smart, energetic people. I was sad to leave (and so were many of my co-workers), but they too were excited about my future possibilities. I can’t thank them enough for helping me succeed. I couldn’t have asked for a better experience in every aspect of joining the company, succeeding in the company, and leaving the company. This is how business should be done.

This is all part of the plan, though. It’s good to be here.