I have been asked several times what my preferred setup is to be able to work comfortably. Not wanting to be distracted by all the bells and whistles that seem to only serve to aggravate people when they don’t work, I tend to stay away from the typical environments after seeing them come into being, get usable, then fall down to “shiny” unusable messes that most of them turn into. Here is the current list of my preferred setup.

I started working on some new Perl scripts and realized that i have not installed the libdbd-oracle-perl package on my desktop since the upgrade. If anyone is looking for how to do this on a Ubuntu Maverick machine ( I know, right before 11.04 comes out but it still worked in the alpha ). First go to Oracle’s website and grab the rpm instant-client packages for the database that you are going to be connecting to and convert them to .deb before installing them.

I am in the process of migrating from wordpress to Octopress. The reasoning behind this no longer needing a database simplifies things so I can reduce my monthly maintains tasks by one more item helping to simplify my life. The second is as octopress uses Markdown for it’s setup, I can easily jot down ideas for a post on any plain text editor and sync it easily.