http://johnmiltonrichardson.com/wordpress The Personal Web-Log of John Milton Richardson Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:49:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I wanted to write a post today that is kind of reflecting a rather serious one I read a couple of days ago, what would you do if you had a short time to live , but about friendships in general. I began to think about what our time actually ... http://johnmiltonrichardson.com/wordpress/?p=350 So I'm studying up new ways to re-use my code (instead of having to re-write it), and quickly falling in love with the MVC (Model View Controller). It's basically a way of developing applications that includes multiple tiers for separating the logic/rules code from the presentation code. It's basically cleaner ... http://johnmiltonrichardson.com/wordpress/?p=345 I pulled this from tuxmagazine, and totally lurve it. Makes me wonder why my other car is a dodge stratus.. heheh. Top 10 Reasons to Switch to Linux 1. It Doesn't Crash Linux has been time-proven to be a reliable operating system. Although the desktop is not a new place for Linux, most ... http://johnmiltonrichardson.com/wordpress/?p=340 I just installed Jott on my brand new iPhone and it works supercalifragilisticexpialidociously. You guys can be expecting some more updates, so keep reading along and have a wonderful day. listen Powered by Jott http://johnmiltonrichardson.com/wordpress/?p=330 [caption id="attachment_322" align="alignnone" width="201" caption="You can do it! Just Persevere!"][/caption] I'm in my late twenties and have a lot of friends whom are settling down with families and working on professional degrees and some who are still working on what they want to do. There's nothing wrong with ANY of these. ... http://johnmiltonrichardson.com/wordpress/?p=320 John's Top 7 Open Source Software Sites Are you breaking the bank on your commercial software costs? Tired of all the activation keys and hidden software service costs? Check out these directories of my favorite open source software applications--and save yourself lots of time and money. Souceforge You knew it was coming, eh? ... http://johnmiltonrichardson.com/wordpress/?p=289 After scouring the web looking for tutorials on dreamweaver, I was very disappointed with the lack of content available to beginners on setting up their very own dynamic website in PHP. PHP is growing and while the business community is devoted to mostly .NET and ASP, they are forgetting to ... http://johnmiltonrichardson.com/wordpress/?p=11 There is life on mars. Life is but a dream... Have you ever been shopping for something and you have to go to the store to get it? It simply amazes me how many people today are actually scared to interact with a real person. Imagine that--having ... http://johnmiltonrichardson.com/wordpress/?p=77 Somebody wise once said to me, "The minute you make plans to do something important, be prepared to have them re-arranged by others." Lennon said, "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." They were too right. I have decided to move on from my current position ... http://johnmiltonrichardson.com/wordpress/?p=15 I seems like only yesterday that i sat down on my laptop, opened a web browser, and grokked over rich web interfaces in flash. Gosh it was what every developer coveted! They wanted to show off their skills on rich media objects, futuristic menus and active content with actionscript. Nobody ... http://johnmiltonrichardson.com/wordpress/?p=9