Jared Ottley

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Entries from April 2008

My Boy Jack

April 20th, 2008 · No Comments

I keep meaning to post more on the things I read, listen to and watch.
I watched the dramatization of the play My Boy Jack by David Haig.  It is the beautifully told story of Rudyard Kipling and his son Jack.  Jack was extremely myopic, but wanted, like every other young man his age, to join [...]

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Tags: General

Lessons learned in Appliance building, Ideas for the Future

April 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Errands run, kids in bed, and Krull On Demand. Finally, sometime to put some thoughts down about building the Alfresco Appliance.
Some of what I write here refers back to when I original put together, the first version of the appliance. Some is from revisiting it for this release.
Choosing a distribution
I started playing with [...]

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Tags: Alfresco · General

Alfresco Appliance 2.1.2

April 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Update: Those who downloaded the appliance, may have noticed a packaging problem (ie part of it was missing! :()  I have fixed that as well as done a little tunning and a few modifications.  I’ll post about those later.
Available now! I’ve just finished the latest evaluation version of the VMware based Alfresco Appliance built [...]

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Tags: Alfresco

World Autism Awareness Day

April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Today is World Autism Awareness Day, and as the father of an aspie, I’d like to encourage everyone to take a moment to learn a little more about Autism. 1 in 150 children are diagnosed with Autism.
There are some great resources out there to learn more about Austism:

www.autismspeaks.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome

Wired had a great article in February. [...]

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Tags: General