Archive for April, 2005

I think I’ve only been in town for 2 weeks out of the past month. Long story but I’ve been in Washington D.C. and Boston visiting clients and participatin
g in trade shows. Luckily I balanced those trips out with a 2 week trip to the Mayan Riveria.
We have 5 new employees starting next [...]

Attended the inaugural Vancouver I
sland Java Users Group meeting last night.
A synopsis can be found here.
All in all, a pretty interesting event involving people from all walks of life with different goals and experiences. I think its only the beginning and sh
ould build into a valuable resource for the community.
I’m glad we finally something [...]

Caught the following post @ ‘the life of glenn’ about scripting languages
Lately I’ve been thinking about how important it is for a company to standardize on a scripting language. We had some scripts that help us deploy our s
oftware on client machines. The problem is they rely on bash being in a certain location the [...]

Even though I’m going to Mexico for two weeks tomorrow, I decided to lay it all out and dist-upgrade my perfectly fine installation of warty on my work lap
top.
I’m happy to report that it went off without a hitch. Just finished a few more upgrades and will restart X to see if anything breaks, [...]

I haven’t been able to post very often lately.
I’ve been visiting a client in Boston for 3 of the past 4 weeks and just got back two days ago.
I’m packing up today to head to Vancouver, hop on a plane tomorrow morning, and get off in Cancun. Going to spend a couple weeks at [...]

Sitting in Logan Airport getting caught up on my blogs and came across something called CodeZoo from O’Reilly.

CodeZoo exists to help you find high-quality, freely available, reusable components, getting you past the repetitive parts of coding, and onto the rest and
the best of your projects. Its a fast-forward button for your compiler.

Looks interesting right [...]




  • Win7, nice to meet you. I hate to admit it but I’ve been running Vista on a desktop machine at home for the better part of the past 8 months. It has not been ...

  • Windows Live Writer isn’t bad Until recently, the bulk of my writing was done on a Mac using Ecto.  I was looking for a suitable publishing tool for Windows and was directed towards ...

  • Pet Peeve: Don’t email my password to me in plain text You know the drill. Signup for some random service on the internet Receive a confirmation email with your account information or Forget a password for some random service ...

  • Eclipise Memory Analyzer (MAT) I must say the Eclipse Memory Analyzer looks pretty slick. There is some pretty good material over on the developers blog. Lastly, there was a talk on it ...

  • Open-source Web-based Code Review Tool: Rietveld Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews... Rietveld. It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You ...






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