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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Got my Villanova ID badge today
Big day. I took off from work to get some legwork done at Villanova. Paid my first semester tuition, got my parking pass, bought my books, and got my ID badge.
My first day is this Saturday. It would be a lie if I said I wasn’t excited – and even little scared. Which is entirely normal, I know.
One foot in front of the other.
Scalable Non-Blocking Coding Style
Interesting presentation handed to me at work by Aaron: InfoQ: JavaOne: Cliff Click on a Scalable Non-Blocking Coding Style.
Emma, good and bad – easy to guess which :)
“Put on Yoda movie. Put on Yoda movie. Put on Yoay movie.”
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“Where’s Jar-Jar?”
Rough Saturday
Emma’s molars coming in and she spent most the day just wanting to be held by Mommy and Daddy. Tylenol helps. Snuggling goes farther. So does a visit by Grandmom and Grandpop.
Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction
From Locus Magazine: Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction:
- Short, regular work schedule
- Leave yourself a rough edge
- Don’t research
- Don’t be ceremonious
- Kill your word-processor
- Realtime communications tools are deadly
Read the whole piece for the thoughts behind these items of advice.
There are equivalents for programming that come to mind. I wonder, am I sliding back into Emacs a task at a time because I want to kill my word-processor (my IDE – Eclipse?)? Is that why Netbeans is starting to appeal to me (seemingly less work configuring (playing?!) with IDE settings and concentrating on the task at hand)?
Nice tutorial on writing an Emacs Lisp function
Steve Yegge: My Save Excursion
NYTimes launches the Congress API
Nice work New York Times.
Phillyfuture.org back up – spam filtering got me
Long story short – I missed some important emails do to an over aggressive spam filter.
That’s twice in Philly Future’s history that spam handing has led to some major trouble.
Phillyfuture.org, hosted at Centrihost.com, unreachable
I’ve been trying to contact them to see what is going on, we are over 8 hours into a server down event, but no response by phone or email. If anyone has any contacts, let me know.