September 2007 Archives

If you are going to write a screenplay, then you really should look into Celtx (http://www.celtx.com ).  Hands down, this is the best tool you can have to begin your creative process.  There are many ways you can write a screenplay, and many tools to help you do so.  But Celtx combines all the best features, and many that others don't have, into one product.  And one of the best things about it- it is Open Source!

It is based on Mozilla's FireFox web browser, and works on WIndows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

This book is awesome.  I learned so much from it that I have placed it second on my list of books every software engineer should read.  There are so many great topics covered in such a easy to read and understand way that you can't help but want to try them out.  And after trying a few out, you start to wonder how on earth did you live without some of these things.  

There are a few books I have read that I really got a lot out of, and this was one of them.  I was familiar with a lot of the things discussed in here, but not at any great detail (at least with some of them).  I even learned a thing or two with perl (imagine that!).

So I finally was able to get the domain spencerchristensen.com.  It was taken for a while by someone else, but when I check just a couple of weeks ago, it was available.  So I am setting up my personal site.

I have had a personal site for years at  http://www.mecworks.com/~spencer , but this has fallen dormant for a long time.  I hope to get back into maintaining a personal site with this one.  I still don't have a lot of free time to give to this, but hopefully I can at least give more that what I have been doing.