@heckj- heckj: @duncan ugh!
- heckj: @briandorsey splunk + cacti, but honestly not perfectly happy with either. Could be so much better. Working on an alternative, quietly...
- heckj: getting last minute things together to head on vacation for the coming week. Alaska here we come! #innerpassage FTW
- heckj: @tripleonard no, best time to start is small, and benefits are immediate
- heckj: @johnderosa we have extra crisp...
- delicious links
- Introduction — hookbox v0.2.0 documentation September 7, 2010
- Alex Vollmer — UIAutomation Test Fixtures Redux September 6, 2010
- http://www.joeweinman.com/Resources/Joe_Weinman_The_Market_For_ Melons.pdf September 6, 2010
- Marginally Interesting: Cassandra Garbage Collection Tuning September 6, 2010
- lethain's Redis-Python-Datastructures at master - GitHub September 5, 2010
- ØMQ - The Guide - zeromq September 5, 2010
- Pure Pulsing CSS Map Markers September 4, 2010
- Hadoop Streaming August 31, 2010
- gist: 556508 - GitHub August 29, 2010
- ⚛ A Hudson/GitHub build process that works August 29, 2010
Monthly Archives: February 2007
Eclipse and PyDev
For the past few months, I’ve either been using “Stani’s Python Editor” or just SciTE to code and edit my python work. I thought SPE was pretty nice, and was generally happy with it. A few weeks ago, I started … Continue reading
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Lineoleum
For the record, laying lineoleum (felt backed vinyl) sheeting just sucks. We got the cutting done OK, and the sheets fit nicely without hideous gaps and the like. But the glueing – in a small room (5×8 bathroom – two … Continue reading
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Where “higher education” misses the mark
Last night, I saw the article Google class debuts at the UW, and of course I had to check it out. Aside from the usual “what’s google doing now” antenna that quivered, I worked at a University for seven years, … Continue reading
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Its that cold spring rain
The flowers are making their way up, a few cherry trees have their early blossoms, and it’s damnably cold outside. There’s a bitter cold winter wind that I remember from Missouri – it’s nothing like that. This is a damp, … Continue reading
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SEAPIG
I finally made it to a SEAPIG meeting last night. The SEAPIG crew and Google hosted a meeting off their normal schedule, roughly entitled “How python is being used at Google”. Man, talk about a turnout! Talking with some of … Continue reading
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Ignite and the Egg Canon
Ignite Seattle is tomorrow night – and yeah, you bet I’m going to be there. I’m looking forward to seeing the “egg canon” – according to the Make blog entry, there wasn’t enough vertical space to really make it work … Continue reading
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awesome card trick video
Monica posted a link on the Seattle PI this evening to a wonderful card trick video. You’ve gotta watch this, the guy is great!
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Szechuan Bean Flower
For the local Seattle crowd – If you’re looking for damn good Szechuan meal, head to Szechuan Bean Flower – a little hole in the wall place across Aurora from the Oak Tree plaza. It’s in my list of top … Continue reading
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Yahoo pipes – quartz composer for RSS
I saw the various bits of web spoo about Yahoo Pipes this past week, and the first thing that came to mind was “Wow – it looks like just Quartz Composer!”. I guess that’s a good thing – the visual … Continue reading
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The next “big language”
There’s a bit of interesting (and I think credible) prognastication at Steve Yegge’s blog entitled The Next Big Language. It’s a pretty good read if you’re into programming languages.
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