General
Plugging Back Into The Grid
I am finally writing another post after falling off the grid for a couple of months. I had high hopes of writing a post every day in November, but the holidays combined with a full time job and paying side job keeping me up until 2AM or 3AM left me with little motivation to squeeze [...]
Exploring CouchDB
Over the last week I’ve been reading a few articles about CouchDB and playing with some sample code. Yesterday I read Eric Florenzano’s article on Using CouchDB with Django and it elevated my interest. CouchDB is a a document-oriented database from Apache. It can be queried and indexed in a MapReduce function in javascript. CouchDB [...]
Dude I Got A………Mac
This weekend we drove up to Raleigh for the simple pleasure of giving Apple, Inc. a handful of money. I’ve wanted one for over a year, but the timing or the budget just didn’t line up until now. We purchased an iMac last year as a “Shared Family” computer. Wrong. After [...]
November Blogging Thing
Ok so the annual November is the month for blogging thing is going on and this year I’m going to attempt it. Like many other developers I don’t keep up with my blog as much as I should. I don’t feel guilty about letting the reader down….it’s not like I have a huge following anyway. [...]
_Why All The Tears?
Last month when _Whytheluckystiff (_why) “went missing” I was not sure how to respond. I needed time to process what was happening. A lot of people, including some big names in web development were quick to step in and give a heartfelt thanks and goodbye to a man that had done so much for the [...]
Scripting My Setup
I’ve had the occasion to setup new Ubuntu environments several times over the last couple of months and out of laziness I created a simple script to install easy_install, pip, virtualenv, virtualenvwrapper and fabric. I’m no bash ninja, but this script makes it quick and easy for me to install the python tools I need [...]
Linux Use #257 – Baby Rocker
I absolutely love this video of using a shell script, string, and cd-rom to gently rock a baby…nice.
I’ve Just Gone Mobile!
I now have the WPtouch plugin for Wordpress that has an optimized layout for mobile devices. Makes the site way more readable within my iPhone, so I hope to not put off mobile readers any more!
Changing Gears, Changing Venues, Changing Jobs
So I haven’t written in a while and it’s mostly due to a move 3,000 miles to take a new job in North Carolina. The job is with a government contractor doing work very similar to a job I had worked in the past – although I’m not required to do it in a tent [...]
Spring Is Here In Sacramento
Yesterday I decided to go to lunch. Alone. On Purpose. It’s not that I’m anti-social. I’m probably less anti-social than the majority of developers I have worked with. I have been working in my cubicle during lunch trying to complete some tasks I’ve been assigned, but I’ve started feeling like I never leave the cubicle. I had already worked through most of lunch when I had decided to go, so I was about an hour after the lunch rush.
