Monthly Archives: January 2008

CARS

God, I hate to say it, but the first thing I think of when someone says CARS is no longer that amazingly funny site that John Moltz runs. Yeah, I’ve been at Disney just long enough to get really messed … Continue reading

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UnitKit

A long time ago, on a server that was probably far, far away… there lived a little project called UnitKit. I’m not trying to resurrect it or anything – although I still think it’s form was nicer than Sen:te OCUnit … Continue reading

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blisters

I’ve been walking to work since the new year… or trying to. I started developing a blister on the back of my left heel, but I ignored it. That’s works right? uh, no. So I’ve been off the heavy walking … Continue reading

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Dinner with Jeremy

Turns out Jeremy Dunck is in town, visiting and doing some work related tidbits here. John and I caught up with him this evening and grabbed dinner and a couple of beers at Elysian Brewery. He gave me a rash … Continue reading

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p4 where and python

Dear Google. Please index this so when I run into this again, I can find it. Your friend, -joe So I just spent the past 6 hours debugging an esoteric problem with using the p4 command through python, taking advantage … Continue reading

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Snow in Seattle

It’s newsworthy – snow isn’t that common in Seattle, and the more newsworthy part – Seattle goes absolutely insane when there is any significant snow (or god forbid – ice) around the place. Last night we got a wet dusting … Continue reading

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Quartz Composer

After having read through the high-level guides on Core Animation yesterday, I was inspired to go dive into Quartz Composer. There are a lot of things you can plug into the Core Animation frame – everything from still images, videos, to OpenGL views. … Continue reading

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Ah! so that’s what happened…

I’ve spent most of the afternoon re-aquainting myself with Mac programming idioms, and generally getting myself into a veritable froth of possibilityand over-imagination about the CoreAnimation technologies. Outside of that, I finally backtracked into the world of Ruby on Rails to … Continue reading

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Forget the ads

I’ve had ads running on this site as a lazy experiment for the better part of 18 months now. I haven’t done anything to really push the ads other than prominently display them. My take home was roughly $2.50 each … Continue reading

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Xcode 3.0 overview

I gave the presentation to Xcoders group last night – a short overview of the new features of Xcode 3. If you get a copy of the presentation, you’ll need VoodooPad to view it. If you don’t already have it, you can … Continue reading

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