Welcome, weary traveler, to apebox.org.

This is the personal domain of human being extraordinaire, Jo “directhex” Shields.

Things are a little “in development” right now, but the intention is to provide some handy tips, tools, and other flippantries to those who come seeking enlightenment.

Once upon a time, this site was designed using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004, using JSP, on a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 machine. Since then times have changed, however – it was first ported to PHP due to some incredibly incompetent webhosts, then re-imagined on top of the open-source WordPress blog engine in 2007. There may be some wrinkles to iron out, and I have absolutely no idea how Microsoft Internet Explorer will cope with it, but never mind.

I like C#. And cake, cake is cool too.

CodeBox is destined to become a home for the little snippets of source code I’ve created over time, ideally with a CVS so real people can enhance it. My only “complete” app so far, released under the GNU GPL, is a Linux GTK2 port of Kickstart, a launcher program for the Doomsday Doom engine replacement. It’s written in Perl.

HexBox is the “about me” section, for those of you who want more details on the dashing hunk of man who crafted all of this. It’s also got contact details, in case you wanted to flame me or something. I’m not picky.

PictureBox is a fairly basic image gallery, with assorted pictures of things i want to show people. It makes my life easier for things like web forums if I have somewhere stable to keep my silly images and local mirror of the pancake bunny.

This section has lain fallow for years. Since I’m coming up to five years as a professional GNU/Linux systems manager, I consider myself to be more than capable of passing on a trick or two – that’s what lives here.

This final section is what the cool kids call a “blog” – however, I’m far too lazy to tell you what I made for dinner, so this will mostly be used for sounding off about things that annoy me.