I was planning to do the service for my motorbike for at least half a year already and didn\’t have chance to do it due to many reasons. Finally, I was forced to do so because my bike just stopped. Anyhow, with some money spend I replaced all old parts and now my bike is good for another long period.
Web development with Catalyst
I have some web development to do for the past month and I came across Catalyst framework for perl which simplifies the job a lot. It is an MVC framework which does all the routing one need, plus it has support for such good modules like Template Toolkit, Class::DBI and others. Another big advantage is that it has a small web developers web server which helps to troubleshoot many aspects during the development process and then the whole thing can be migrated to apache with a couple of moves only.
Brainbench certificates
I was planning to take a couple of tests and pass certifications from Brainbench for a while already but I never came back to actually do it. This Friday I occasionally got near by the Brainbench site and finally went to the test section. I found all the free/sponsored tests and I took almost all of the ones I thought I had some knowledge in. I ended up with 9 certificates:
- Linux Administration (General)
- MS Office 2003 Fundamentals
- Computer Fundamentals (Win 95/98)
- HTML 3.2
- Computer Fundamentals (Win XP)
- PHP 5
- Cisco Routers Fundamentals
- Network Security
- MS Windows Server 2003 Administration
Only two of the above (no 7 and no 9) are not very well, but still ok due to the reason that I am not too much into Cisco (consider myself a beginner) and I am more a Linux administrator, so I do not spend much time on Windows Servers and that is why my Windows Servers test was not as good.
Anyhow, I think that it is quite good for the time being. I hope that I will get better results on the two not-so-good tests and that I will take more tests later on (especially if they will be free/sponsored).
My transcript number is 6210735 and my results (and other stuff related to Brainbench) can be seen here
Missed Slashdot new design while using RSS
I am so used to RSS that I have missed a new (or maybe it is not already new???) design of Slashdot. I don\’t remember when I was visiting the sites for news directly and thus I do not see the changes there. It is just today that I was seating not on my machine and didn\’t have access to my RSS reader (nor I wanted to go to bloglines) I decided to visit Slashdot and I was very impressed. I really liked their new design – cool :)
Now I feel a bit pity about this. Just imagine, web-designer do a lot of their job to make cool look & feel and people (although not all of them) do not visit the site directly more than once :(
Flickr uploads
Thanks to my brother I now have a pro account with flickr which allows 2GB of uploads per months. I have started uploading some more photos, but the internet speed at home is a bit slow so it takes some time to upload. I hope that I will manage to move the majority of my photos to flickr soon.