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- heckj: getting last minute things together to head on vacation for the coming week. Alaska here we come! #innerpassage FTW
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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
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Monthly Archives: August 2007
the moon will soon be eaten…
In another few minutes, the total lunar eclipse will begin. This will be the second one I’ve seen – the first being nearly 20 years ago while I was camping with a large pile of friends in Pennsylvania. I remember … Continue reading
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Django Queue Service
I know I’ve been quiet on the Django front for a while. Here’s something to make up for it. Without further ado, let me present to the world the Django Queue Service. At OSCON 2007, I was hunting around for … Continue reading
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Interesting tidbit on Mercurial…
After Andrew’s presentation on Mercurial and Git, I thought I’d give one of them a shot. Since Mercurial is written in Python, it obviously won. Well – obviously for me, but then I really like Python. Anyway, an interesting quirk … Continue reading
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Law is code… and it desperately needs refactoring!
I’ve been thinking about this topic for a while. Actually – what and how to write about it has been darned tricky. It’s about the Law. Our “Legal Code”. Interestingly, they use some of the same terminology – that it’s … Continue reading
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XCoders – Git & Mercurial…
Andrew Carter gave a really good overview presentation of two of the more popular distributed source code management systems out there today – Git and Mercurial. Lots of people have been talking about Git lately, mostly because of the video … Continue reading
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HALO 3
I took some time this evening to go see the Halo 3 IMAX Preview Event. Imagine playing Halo on a big screen. A really, really big screen. Now combine that with seeing the game as its winding down into its … Continue reading
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Down for a day – literally…
I was down for the day – literally. I think I slept something like 16 hours all today today – way more than usual for me. Karen thinks it was because I finally relaxed a bit this weekend after a … Continue reading
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Catchin’ up from OSCON – Windmill
Doing a little catchup time from OSCON… One of the pieces that I was particularly interested in from OSCON was Windmill. OSA Foundation’s variation on the Selenium theme for testing their Ajax and webapp views of Chandler. While I’ve got … Continue reading
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Fun movie – Stardust
Karen and I went to see Stardust last night. I hadn’t even realized it was a Neil Gaiman story, and from the web site “Best Date movie…” commentary, I wasn’t sure what I was getting into. It’s a great flick. … Continue reading
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What I’ve learned this weekend
What I’ve learned this weekend: * I don’t breath very well at 12,000 ft elevation * The high alpine meadows in the Rocky Mountain National Park are simply exquisite * After being at 12,000 ft elevation, 7,000 ft feels like … Continue reading
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