@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 2008
Tea Cup – a great replacement from Tully’s on Queen Anne
The Tea Cup has been lurking just off the corner of Boston and Queen Anne for quite a while – sort of lurking back behind all the big coffee shops on that corner (Starbucks, Tullys, Pete’s Coffee, and Ladro). It’s … Continue reading
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message passing concurrency in a dynamic language …or… now I’m learning Erlang
I’ve been putting myself on a fast-course of learning Ruby over the past couple of weeks, primarily to learn enough ruby to be able to teach it. (The only way I think you can claim to have learned something is … Continue reading
Do-Over Saturday
I’m a very social introvert – which is one of those relatively paradoxical things. My definition of introvert is that it I tend to feel “worn out” after being outgoing and social, especially in an unfamiliar environment or around people … Continue reading
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Ideas are worth nothing, execution is everything… another refrain
Raven Zachary posted Turning Ideas into iPhone Applications on to the OReilly Inside iPhone blog tonight. One of the interesting bits is that he laid down an expected minimum “going price” for a good iPhone developer ($125/hr if you’re curious). … Continue reading
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CodeCamp Seattle
I’m going to be attending CodeCamp Seattle this weekend. Since I’ve been bustin’ to get an internal class on Ruby and Watir ready for a week from today, I thought I’d slim it way down and present it. I’ve got … Continue reading
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How people really use the iPhone
I saw this from Daring Fireball: How people really use the iPhone. It is a fantastic, professional user-experience overview of a variety of applications – but most importantly some real information on how folks are using the interface. If you’re … Continue reading
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Twisting my brain around Ruby while standing on the shoulders of giants
I’ve long been impressed with the Watir project – a ruby library that programmatically drives a web browser. With it, you can drive IE (and now FIrefox and Safari as well) through web sites, testing for content and verifying interactions. … Continue reading
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World Plone Day
Today was World Plone Day – an event hosted by the fans/supporters/developers of Plone to share information about their favorite python based CMS with the world. The local Seattle Plone crew hosted an evening session with some talks introducing the … Continue reading
Fallout 3
I picked up Fallout 3 last week and spent a good portion of Sunday playing it. I wasn’t sure what I’d think about the transition from a top-down ISO turn-based game into something that looks more like a first person … Continue reading
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Great Britain is claiming Iceland is a terrorist state
I read the story Iceland, Mired in Debt, Blames Britain for Woes in the New York Times this morning. I’m appalled at what Britain is doing. The government is effectively labeling Iceland as a terrorist state in order to squeeze … Continue reading
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