Monthly Archives: May 2006

“Select” member… ADC

Sounds kind of like a special buy of fruit at the grocery, doesn’t it. But it’s not – it’s more geeky than that. Recently I signed up to head to WWDC and purchased an ADC Select membership with the ticket. … Continue reading

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ACM benefit – Safari Online Books

The biggest benefit to my ACM membership to date – Access to the safari online books! Every now and then, I just need to look something up and I don’t have the massive “Joe’s Home Library” nearby – and that’s … Continue reading

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Jetboat movie

I made a little movie (1.8Mb mpeg4) of the jetboats that I caught with my little camera. Karen’s camera does much better video – so I may try and get that out too. This video is all of a minute … Continue reading

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Memorial Day Weekend – Merlin, Oregon

Way more pics than are reasonable to post to a blog entry, so I picked a few and figured I’d point you all at Flickr for the rest. Another one of those jetboats hurtling by at 80mph – this is … Continue reading

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Memorial Day Weekend teaser

I thought I was going to bed, but I had to download the pictures from the weekend. Here’s the teaser: What goes 80 mph through class 2.5 rapids? crazy people driving jetboats on Memorial Day weekend. But it was neat … Continue reading

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Getting started with Maven 2

I’m starting to get into using Maven (specifically Maven 2) as a java build tool. It does a truly wonderful job at managing the dependency sets for larger projects, but it has an incredible drawback – it is incredibly unhelpful … Continue reading

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Selenium web testing framework

I hadn’t checked in a while, so it was really cool to see that Selenium has released version 0.70 of their web testing framework back on May 14th. What was originally known as Selenium is now broken out into several … Continue reading

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another web-based bug tracking application

Jesse is posting a nice series (if you’re into asp.net anyway) on building a web application – unfortunately, the example he’s giving is yet another web-based bug tracking application. The problem is that his series is too good – I … Continue reading

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Conferences

I’m signed up! I’m heading to OSCON and WWDC this year – and the timing looks like I’ll be in Portland for a week at OSCON, home a week, and then gone again for a week at WWDC. It’s been … Continue reading

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logic circuits with Quartz Composer

This is just too good – Zac White created a logic circuit simulator with Quartz Composer. That’s just awesome. Completely useless for me, but boy does it bring back memories (the UI is a hell of a lot nicer than … Continue reading

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