A couple random tidbits just to get back on the blogwagon:
I bought a new Macbook Pro a couple of weeks ago. I haven’t had the ZOMG MACS RULE experience yet, but there are a bunch of nice things about it. It starts up or returns from sleep very quickly. I like the [...]
I spent Memorial Day weekend visiting Becca and Jim in Minneapolis (or, as we refer to it, BFapolis). Jon and Val were going out for a volleyball tournament, and I tagged along for the pre-volleyball festivities. As usual, it was big fun, with an emphasis on eating. Jim is a serious foodie who [...]
Been dinking with Erlang for a couple of days, just working my way through Programming Erlang, which has been sitting on my bookshelf for over a year now largely untouched.
When I went back to Python in April, one thing I noticed was how non-pythonic my code was unless I paid attention to what I was [...]
I’m putting web apps aside for a while. Rapid progress is fun, but at some point building little toys is just plugging together pre-existing framework bits, and I don’t have a more inspiring target to shoot for to keep it interesting. I spent a few days banging my head, trying to get motivated [...]
I had four goals for April. I did okay this month, but not as well as I wanted:
Finish cleaning up my resume. I got everything translated over to xmlresume and hacked up the XSL to add the sections and formatting that I wanted, and I did enough editing so that I had something [...]
I’m a little over a week into my web app experiment. The thing that I’ve found the most striking is the rate at which you can add useful functionality to the system, which is both inspiring and fraught with peril simultaneously.
When you’re working on cellular base stations, it takes a while to add a new [...]
I’m finally digging into building a little web app using Pylons. Even though it’s a toy that’ll probably never see the light of day, I’m sticking to some reasonable coding practices, including a good bit of test-driven development. For me, one of the best things about TDD when I’m working on coding anything of non-trivial [...]
I haven’t really mastered the art of the tweet yet. This is mostly because I’m already in IM venues that are second nature to me when I have something to share (some would say “inflict”); it’s not until after I’ve fired something off that it occurs to me, “Huh, that could have been a [...]
This blog is not my first website. Back in the day, when you had to write all the HTML for your web pages by hand, and we didn’t have any of these fancy shmancy web frameworks (is there a ‘Grandpa Simpson’ CSS property?), I had a meager presence on the World Wide Web. [...]
I read this from CodingHorror this morning, and it reminded me of one of the invited talks that jrsantos and I went to see when we were presenting at USENIX ‘98. My external Google-based memory reminds me that it was by Daniel Klein and even provides the slides for it. He seemed comfortable [...]