Spring break was quiet at ResTek. I haven’t been into the office much. I guess because I like to work from home more, where I have my own computer and access to as much coffee as I would like.
I had to buy a new french press (accidentally broke the last one that I got for Christmas, ouch) so I bought the Bodum Kenya model because it wasn’t as expensive as the Chambord (original — $40!).
On Wednesday I took a train down to Seattle to help my dad with some things at his business and ran into Symons across the street from the store.
Work has been uneventful, but I managed to finish the Perl script that I use to add new accounts. It’s a lot more user-friendly now (view groups before selecting one, allow you to enter name or number, deal with non-ResTek accounts, etc.) In addition to that, I extended our password-reset application. It now supports changing more of your LDAP information such as phone numbers, email addresses, name, and login shell which means people don’t have to use phpldapadmin (they still can). I broke away from using our current Staff class which encompasses employee information in doing so, but since Zend_Ldap is going to be extended soon (I hope!) I have plans to convert all of our PHP LDAP code to a consistent interface in the near future anyway.
Debian with VirtualBox (+Vista)
A while back I was talking to a friend and our discussion convinced me to install Linux (or something else) on my desktop. I decided to give Debian another go, and I’ve been really happy with it. I’ve had it on my laptop for quite a while, and now it’s on my desktop too. The same discussion led to me installing VirtualBox, and I added 2GB more ram (making 4GB total) to my desktop to give my virtual machine(s) more memory.
When the time comes to buy a new laptop, I’ll probably use the same setup.
