Articles by Eric Weidner
Eric Weidner
Eric Weidner is Senior Development Manager and Co-Founder of OpenLogic. On any given day, you might find him in the server closet re-configuring switches or leading a content team meeting with his trademark laid back style. (We like to call him "Thorazine".) Trained as a mechanical engineer, Eric began his career as a product design engineer and project manager with a small engineering consulting firm where he pioneered the use of emerging web technologies to improve communications with both clients and team members during the project life cycle. He had so much fun that he left CAD systems behind and jumped fulltime into Java and J2EE development. These days, he grooves on the myriad ways that Open Source projects (and people) can be made to play nicely together. If you're ever skiing in Colorado, Eric may be the guy sliding by, on his back, as he works to integrate himself onto Project Snowboard.
How many times have you had to go to a specific directory to launch an application or set several environment variables for an application to be able to find itself and run? Well, here’s a simple trick to add to your shell scripts so that they’re self-contained with no external requirements or editing.
Often developers need to test multiple browsers during development to test for browser compatibility or to use a different version of the browser because a needed plugin only works on an older version. Firefox offers some handy options to run several versions side-by-side.