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- 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
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- 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
Category Archives: Ranting and Reflections
Openstack Summit Fall 2011 – Wrap-up and overview
I’m back from the OpenStack design summit and conference, just held in Boston, MA. It was a fantastic week, with the first three days dedicated to the design summit – getting down and dirty with the details, and the last … Continue reading
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Installing OpenStack – Diablo release (nova and glance)
I know a lot of folks are using the StackOps script thingy to install OpenStack. I’ve been installing it (quite a bit) lately just from packages, and it’s not all that difficult, so I thought I’d write up the details … Continue reading
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As the diablo milestone nears…
In the openstack project, we’re nearing the “Diablo Milestone”. To a large respect, it’s the fourth release of OpenStack. Even as we close down on the tail end of this release, there has been and is a huge amount of … Continue reading
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mental gear shifting and reflections
I’m in this weird mental space today. At work, I’ve been putting a lot of effort into building infrastructure – or more specifically, creating things that build infrastructure. While doing this over the past month, I’ve hit a few interesting … Continue reading
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Making a board game
It’s been too long, so I’m diving back into IOS development and making a board game. I have a test app (not even close to the final thing) for working out the UI pieces of the game that I just … Continue reading
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Functional testing with Lettuce and Fabric
After the launch of Nebula, from which I think I’m mostly recovered, I’ve been thinking about and working on ways to allow us to accelerate development. Our team has done a fair bit of work on the Openstack Dashboard, an … Continue reading
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Always On Applications, personal style
Almost a year ago I wrote a bit about wanting “Always on” applications. I started out just sort of complaining about the difficultly with current computing devices, and then looked to the future with cloud computing and the price points … Continue reading
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Artificial Intelligence for Games, Second Edition
I’ve been thinking it’s time to cobble another IOS app up for sale, not just fiddle around with open source client apps (which is a lot of the IOS work I’ve been doing lately). So I found a board game … Continue reading
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javascript everywhere
There’s an interesting fast iteration in language efforts happening around javascript. It’s been pretty much dominating the client side arena for ages, started to make some interesting headway into server side with Node.js, but now I am starting to see … Continue reading
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Site moved and updated
I’ve a little bit of additional work to call it 100% complete, but the site is now available (as you’ve likely noticed) and updated internally. Still wordpress, but shifted to a new hosting location. My previous one decided to disable … Continue reading
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