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- 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
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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: September 2007
iPhone addict
Hello, my name is Joe… and I am an iPhone addict. That’s how it starts, right? The phone has been a great success for me. I’ve “played with” other, older smart phones (the iPaq with WIFI and CDMA – I … Continue reading
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Acorn and Python goodness
When Gus created Acorn, he also included a plugin mechanism – using Python. Now there’s an excellent writeup at Enigmata on exactly how to go about that scripting and extending Acorn to do your whimsical bidding. It’s a really great … Continue reading
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HALO 3 Launch Party
Let me start by admitting that this whole thing, to me, is a little silly. Still, silly or not, I couldn’t help coming over to bellevue this evening to see what this thing is all about. At the moment there’s … Continue reading
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continued assault on the microsoft office suite
OK, so it’s not really – but that’s how I view it. Google Documents released their presentation goodies so you can now do that whole “create slide presentations” (of course, I wanted to call it a “deck” or “powerpoint” – … Continue reading
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Django Buildbot
Some very cool news – Django now has a public build site up (http://buildbot.djangoproject.com/)and running, matching the trunk and one of the branches against an assortment of versions of python and databases. Matt Croydon and I are going to be … Continue reading
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Acorn
Gus released Acorn earlier this week, which I was incredibly glad to see released into the wild. For one thing, I think Gus was starting to seriously loose it – talking to himself and even interviewing himself… But seriously, I’ve … Continue reading
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Economics…
It seems strangely coincidental that last night I spent reading this and that about economics. Mike’s article was about a variety of topics, but he managed to keep some sort of “Adam Smith’ central theme to his current ravings. I’ve … Continue reading
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Nice Django/Dojo (Ajax toolkit) tutorial
While out perusing bookmarks and randomly following links, I stumbled across a nice “from the beginning” Django tutorial that includes a little bit of Ajax with the Dojo Toolkit. There’s also a Part 2 to the example, and I think … Continue reading
storing electricity
The article at Ars Technica about a supercapacitor battery really caught my eye. Storing electrical energy is one of those age-old problems that ti seems we’re looking for answers to in both large and small systems. According to Wikipedia, a … Continue reading
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Viewing the night sky
I was listening to a podcast from NPR the other day – one of the “Science Friday” episodes where they talked about camping and reviewed a book called Camp Out!: The Ultimate Kids’ Guide. The book sounds fun (I’m thinking … Continue reading
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