Category Archives: Ranting and Reflections

breaking the private network oasis addiction with OAuth

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Joe

Most reasonably (and larger) sized operations organizations have a pretty standard networking setup – or at least some close variation on the theme. ARIN wants public IP addresses behind load balancers, so most orgnizations front up their services through software … Continue reading →

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the CMDB is dead, long live the CMDB

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Joe

I work in an environment that has an existing CMDB. Over the past year, I’ve spent a fair number of man hours from my team and an equal number of hours of my own thinking about what it is, what … Continue reading →

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WordPress 3.0 upgrade

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Joe

New theme, and updated back end – moved everything this afternoon to WordPress version 3.0. Upgrade worked like a champ – and I took the time to twiddle the theme into something new and switched around the various widgets. Since … Continue reading →

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WWDC 2010 Wrap-up

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Joe

I’m leaving San Francisco, and Apple’s WWDC, this year more introspective than inspired. The conference puts us under NDA, so while there was some new stuff shown and talked about there, I can’t pass it all along. Not yet anyway, … Continue reading →

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Rites of Passage

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Joe

I saw on the news last night a story about a girl (Abby Sunderland) being rescued while on a solo around-the-world sailing trip. She was in the Indian Ocean, and the rough seas had taken their toll on her boat, … Continue reading →

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WWDC 2010

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Joe

Ticketing system replaced and launched, I’m ready for a decompress. There’s pretty much no better place to do that, in my mind, than at WWDC in San Francisco this coming week. I used to send myself every other year. Strangely, … Continue reading →

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Tomorrow is launch day

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Joe

To say I’ve been a little distracted lately is an understatement. I’ve been involved – running really – a project which is culminating tomorrow. The successful results of which won’t be seen by anyone outside the company. Its one of … Continue reading →

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Looking for a full time Cocoa programmer

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Joe

Gus, El Presidente at Flying Meat Inc., is looking for a full time Cocoa programmer to come work with him up in Everett, WA. Here’s the details: Do you love programming for the Mac and iPhone and think Objective-C is … Continue reading →

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sketching on the iPad

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Joe

I ran myself completely down on my extrovert batteries this past week. So far down that I didn’t even leave the house for wanting to avoid all of humanity on Saturday. On Sunday, I relinquished a bit – and at … Continue reading →

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SeattleBus and the iPad

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Joe

I received a call last night, rather out of the blue. “Are you porting OneBusAway to the iPad?” was the opening line. “Uh… No, but then i didn’t write OneBusAway either. I wrote SeattleBus…” That bit of confusion resolved, we … Continue reading →

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