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Monthly Archives: November 2007
November Phoenix Rails Recap
Last night’s Phoenix Rails meeting was a nice kick off to the holiday. We covered a number of topics and saw some new faces. I am impressed that we have had visitors from United Arab Emirates and Houston, [...]
Marvel Comics Online
A few days back I saw rumblings of Marvel Comics releasing their catalog online. I must profess I still have probably 2,000 or so comic books under the stairs at home. I even have some original page masters [...]
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DishNetwork Sneaking Around?
I have been a DishNetwork consumer for some time. I have bounced between all the services and found my way back to DishNetwork (mainly because when we moved to the new house the local cableTV company didn’t provide service). [...]
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$10 Million Android Bucks
I was watching Britts soccer practice last night and skimming through YouTube videos. I happened to find this Google Android Demo video:
Love the concept, but think the UI is horribly ugly. Free Software aspects are nice. Anyhow [...]
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Ruby System Call
So today for a customer we were faced with the problem of finding out of if a process was already running on a system. We toyed with several variations doing everything via shell script before executing the ruby script, [...]
Go Green?
We hear a lot about going green for the environment. That is stop wasting valuable resources and promote healthy (to you and the environment) choices. The idea of lean agile practices could be considered similar. One of [...]
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Get Your Ass To Bar Camp
December 08th at UAT is Phoenix BarCamp
While sometimes it can feel depressing seeing that this weekend there a San Diego BarCamp. Super Happy Dev House is rocking in San Francisco. Just about the time it feels like a technological [...]
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Auto Maintenance
My schedule is busy and one thing I wanted in a chore program was to help me keep track of repetitive tasks like changing air filters at the house, putting in pool chemicals, etc. One of those things was [...]
Chores 2.0
I was struggling like mad to find a good free chore program that had some Web 2.0ish features and just couldn’t. I was really resolved to start a Free Software project to do it. Following rubyconf tweets this [...]
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Face Recognition
A few week backs I was speaking with the guys at Open Rain who are doing some wicked stuff with facial recognition. I was telling them how it would be really cool to load celebrity photos and then find [...]
