Yesterday I released Osgood::Client and today, after realizing I had botched the upload, Osgood::Server. Unfortunately the documentation is a little thin, so I’ll take this opportunity to both inform the world and the module of it’s purpose.
Osgood is a passive, persistent, stateless event repository. The current docs say queue rather than repository but [...]
One of the most precious responsibilities afforded to me as a developer is the ability to name my projects. Moreover, as Development Manager I could — theoretically — dictate the names of all the projects done in my department. That’d be dictatorial and I don’t do it… but I do reserve the right [...]
Hasten Slowly, in the Latin.
A conversation with Jaxn tonight got me thinking: How ‘fast’ are the sites of the top 10 ’shopping’ sites (per Alexa)?
So I measured them. At first, it was a simple matter of emptying my cache and loading each site. But many sites, understanding how important it is to get [...]
UPDATE: The demo and trac links are down atm, as Ayalike is being moved to new hosting.
I’ve been hacking away for the last week or so on a content management system (henceforth CMS). We are going to need a CMS for some future $work projects and I’m generally unhappy with all that I’ve reviewed. [...]
Oops. A bit late with this one.
BPM 37093 is a white dwarf that, as it has cooled, has turned into a diamond. Our sun will do the same in about 5 billion years, as a hard crystalline core forms in it’s center. Planting 300,000 new trees and allowing them a full life would [...]
It’s back. A little short this week, but I have to get back into the habit.
Baby blue whales can gain up to up to 200lbs a day by drinking about 100 gallons of milk. Whale milk is 40-50% fat whereas cow’s milk is appromixately 4% fat. India is the world’s largest butter consumer. [...]
My day to day responsibilities have changed pretty drastically in the last two years. I’ve gone from being the sole developer on a small, focused project to a manager over a department that is creating some some fairly large projects.
On second thought, it’s not so different. The challenges of the projects [...]
Things have been hectic as of late. Two weeks ago or so I began the rather stressful experience of converting the call center at work from an ancient terminal based order entry system to a fancy, modern Web 2.0-ified one. Many years of data was converted, and dozens of processes had to be [...]
Friday night I released new version of my 2 Perl modules. I followed that up with more hacking over the last few days. Eventually I’ll release a new version of Clicker with some new features, but I got perturbed at it today and played the Xbox.
Speaking of XBox, Connect360 kicks ass. [...]
Learned markdown and used it for this post.
My gig at magazines.com began as a member of a two person team. Luck would have it that we were very compatible office mates as we shared similar interests, hours and working habits. Even our music taste was similar. We moved from a shared [...]
We are hiring at the office. It’s in Franklin, non-telecommute and LAMP.
The linked description basically sums it all up, but I’ll divulge a little more. We are looking for a mid-to-junior person: anywhere in that range. While being a Perl junkie would be cool, we are open to all types of experience. [...]
There’s a saying that’s floated around at my last two jobs. It was started by my one-time boss and continued by my current one. Difficult or irritating problems are often introducted by saying this:
I have an opportunity for you…
The idea, of course, is to frame a problem in it’s rosiest light. It’s become [...]
Highlights: Avoided a root canal.
At what do we labor? Seriously. Is it fleeting feelings? Some type of legacy? Honestly, I’m not really sure what the hell I’m after. I don’t think about it very often. But wait. Maybe I have inklings of an idea. I want to enrich the life of another. [...]
emusic is all that iTunes isn’t. I can’t find good documentation but it looks like the label is getting a good share. Since they are indie I’m assuming the artist is getting taken care of. No DRM for me. Steve could learn something. Having many projects cooking at once is [...]
Anyone who reads my blog for content knows that one of the few things I get fired up about is DRM. Since music is so important to me it makes sense that I would feel strongly about my rights in that arena. Today Steve Jobs, the guy in the driver’s seat of the [...]
Outkast reference for the win.
I copped a Mac Mini over the weekend and have been slaving away to teach it how to pluck choice tidbits from the intarwebs to amuse me when I’m at home. This quest has been fruitful. Battlestar Galactica, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and Heroes are currently migrating [...]
Today a coworker asked me a question about iPods.
“I just got an iPod,” she said, “and my husband has a bunch of music that he’s save in some format and I’d like to get some of it onto my iPod. How can I do that?” I immediately knew we were going to get into trouble. [...]
You know you don’t write enough when people start reminding you that you have a blog.
I think that when life is going well I have less of an urge to document things. Plus there were the Holidays. So I’ve been busy with a number of things. First off I’ve spent the last few weeks [...]
Today NPR detailed education’s fight against the MPAA. It seems that colleges have been fighting to gain the ability to chop up and use footage from films to teach classes. This story put me on one of my soapboxes. There are very few issues which really get me fired up, and DRM [...]
It is pretentious for me suggest my own name be attached to something. Therefore I will not request that this be named in my honor, but I would like to release this law to the world.
As a discussion related to speed, efficiency or convenience of a ‘program’ grows longer, the probabilty of someone telling [...]