@heckj- heckj: RT @bethrobson: Very proud to be a WA state resident! WA state senate just passed same-sex marriage bill. #LGBT
- heckj: @danimal word
- heckj: @alexvollmer :-(
- heckj: @BrianTRice where are u tonight with the #dartlang stuff?
- heckj: good night tonight - catching up with a bunch of @xcoders friends I haven't seen since before the new year
- pinboard links
- Untitled (http://twitter.com/heckj/status/161881325429727232/photo/1) January 24, 2012
- Largest Solar Radiation Storm in Six Years Headed Toward Earth- Bloomberg January 24, 2012
- Untitled (http://twitter.com/heckj/status/159742603926056960/photo/1) January 18, 2012
- Untitled (http://twitter.com/johnderosa/status/159659196428726272/photo/1) January 18, 2012
- A brief history of personal computing platforms. on Twitpic January 14, 2012
- PyPy Status Blog: Transactional Memory (II) January 14, 2012
- Creation of iPxe Bootable USB | AT@ Blogger January 11, 2012
- The Book Designer — Practical Advice to Help Self-Publishers Build Better Books January 6, 2012
- Untitled (http://twitter.com/heckj/status/152807856356331520/photo/1) December 30, 2011
- Vim Text Objects: The Definitive Guide | The Carbon Emitter December 24, 2011
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Amory Lovins – energy and the environment
I’ve been listening to Amory Lovins through the IT Conversations podcasts. There’s a two parter there by him where he’s talking about Energy Efficiency in Transportation (Part 1, Part 2). This is some stunning stuff. If you’re interested in some … Continue reading
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generator based concurrent programming in python
For the past several years, I’ve thought stackless python was just plain cool. It’s a variation on the straight python-written-in-c that is extraordinarily well optimized for concurrent programming due to its implementation of continuations and tasklets. If you’re curious for … Continue reading
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Games, Toys, and Stories
Quite some time ago, I’d picked up a copy of Theory of Fun by Raph Koster. It’s an interesting book with a lot of nice tidbits in it if you’ve any interest in game design and the thoughts behind it. … Continue reading
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benchmarking Django Queue Service
I took some time this afternoon to benchmark out the work we’ve been doing with the Django Queue Service. We haven’t done anything to optimize it, and we’re starting to push in some code to make it fully support REST … Continue reading
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Android
It’s been almost a week since the ‘gPhone’ announcement came out – the “Android” project. I watched a lot of the feedback on blogs, checked out the news. Before it was announced, I’d make a fresh ubuntu virtual image – … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday Gus!
Happy Birthday Gus! Bet you’re working on IronCoder today too…
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Arduino in the house!
I got a ticket for registered, return receipt package from the post office this week. I was sure that it was “no good” news and was dreading picking it up. Boy was I wrong! As I mentioned in my post … Continue reading
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Sunset from the bus…
As I was heading home, the new time change effects were dramatically apparent as I watched the sun set while on the bus. It’s not that far home, but by the time I stepped inside it was already late dusk. … Continue reading
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Django Queue Service
Work has been continuing apace on the Django Queue Service, mostly through the efforts of Rajesh and Marcus who have really done an outstanding job of filling in the holes in testing and structure for the application to make it … Continue reading
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Updating my site
It is well past time that I should have done something about it – it is really time to update my site. Right now, there’s just a few tidbits there and it doesn’t seem worth having a whole separate page … Continue reading
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