Month: October 2005

  • Readers!

    Well, apparently I’m not just spitting into the wind. Several people have mentioned EdBlog posts to me, just this week. Yeah! I have actual readers! If any of you readers want to offer input as to what I should do with this (i.e., post topics, general site comments, whatever), please leave a comment (below, or…

  • FOSS OTD: 10/25-10/28

    Caching up, again, on the FOSS OTD: 10/25: GNU Privacy Guard – GnuPG.org. GPG is a free version of PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy, a suite of strong encryption tools. While GPG doesn’t have all of the same features, it does allow you to encrypt files or e-mails with extremely strong encryption. 10/26: WINE (“WINE…

  • Memo, Schmemo

    I just finished my first draft of my second legal writing assignment, a six-page (1800 word) memo on a hypothetical case involving a broken marriage engagement. It was actually quite fascinating to see how my thoughts on the legal issues evolved, from the time I finished reading through the materials to the time I finished…

  • FOSS OTD: The Regex Coach

    Today’s FOSS OTD is oriented towards programmers who need a good way to test regular expressions. Check out The Regex Coach – interactive regular expressions. It updates in real time, as you edit a regex or its target text. Very, very cool. Not actually open source, but still very cool.

  • FOSS OTD: 10/19-10/23

    Okay, so I got behind on the FOSS OTD postings. Catching up: 10/19: PHP is a wonderful, fast, and flexible OSS scripting language for web programming and stand-alone applications. 10/20: FileZilla is a free FTP client. There is also a great FileZilla Server application. 10/21: PuTTY is a free telnet/SSH client. Very dependable and flexible.…