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 [...]




  • 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 ...

  • An implementation of the JVM in Javascript? Caught this over on JavaPosse Google Groups. Essentially, some bright fellows over in Japan have developed a bytecode->javascript compiler. There's a demo floating around that took a Tetris ...

  • Facebook Chat? So it looks like the Facebook Chat service has finally started rolling out to my network (Facebook Chat has been mentioned previously). Not quite sure how ...





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    • Meetings all day, no time to hit the gym. Guess I better go now.... 6:30am.
    • Played around with Fring for a couple minutes tonight, Skype seemed to work (if only to call a test account of mine). 3G would be nice! :)
    • Watched nick and norahs tonight. Have to admit that it was pretty funny. Two weeks until W, wonder what that's going to be like.
    • Locly is a pretty sweet location-based app for the iPhone. Should have busted it out last week in Seattle.

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