http://www.leerssen.com The Leerssen Web Home Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:13:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In my field of computer science, we use the term polymorphism to describe an attribute of object oriented design. One of my coworkers gave me today what is probably the funniest description I have ever heard: "If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, and all ... http://www.leerssen.com/2008/09/03/polymorphism/ After my upgrade from 10.3 (Panther) to 10.4 (Tiger), I lost my ability to print to my Windows XP shared HP 2410xi. One problem was that the old gimp-print 4.x series printer drivers appeared to be missing an application or shared library; when I attempted to print, I'd get ... http://www.leerssen.com/2007/03/08/bah-xp-wont-talk-to-my-mac/ I recently discovered that you can access much more of your printer functionality of the CUPS drivers via its web interface. Point your browser to 127.0.0.1:631, and a whole new world of printer magic will unfold in your browser. In my case, I was able to set up ... http://www.leerssen.com/2007/03/08/fun-with-cups/ Grandpa and Grandma Leerssen arrirved with sister Andrea and her husband Eric for our Thanksgiving feast this year. We all had a great visit. Andrea and Eric were our first guests to use our brand new bathroom downstairs. Check out all the fun in the gallery http://www.leerssen.com/2006/12/04/thanksgiving-at-the-leerssens/ While looking for free, internet based library software, I came across OpenBiblio. It's a PHP application that drops nicely into an Apache server on Fedora Core. I also found a nice lookup engine which searches the Library of Congress by ISBN and creates a new catalog entry based ... http://www.leerssen.com/2006/03/27/openbiblio/ On Saturday, March 11 at 1:11 pm, we welcomed Hannah Rowan Leerssen into the world. Hannah was 8lb 3 oz and 20.5 inches at birth. Be sure to check out the Gallery for pictures of her first days. http://www.leerssen.com/2006/03/20/welcome-hannah/ On Tuesday of this week, we said good-bye to my furry little friend of 17 years. Cotton was an old kitty, slowly declining due to chronic kidney disease. She will be missed. http://www.leerssen.com/2006/01/27/so-long-cotton-kitty/