January 2012
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April 2011
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On memory
Me: I love my little ladies so much.
Izzy: dad.
Me: yes, izzy
Izzy: did you forget our names?
December 2010
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By George
Me: what is this Izzy, Cheeky George?
Izzy: serious George
Me: you mean Curious George?
Izzy: Serious George
Me: I'm pretty sure it's "Curious George"
Izzy: Whatever
Izzy: you just call it whatever I call it, ok dad?
June 2010
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Riding the Wave
I recently wrapped up a group project for my degree that consisted of working together as two groups. The task was to develop an application that consists of a service layer and the UI layer. The service layer team would handle the database and storage concerns and the user interface team would consume the service and allow the end user to interact with the data through a browser.
Typically...
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October 2009
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Codebase HQ →
These guys are brilliant!
I was looking to move my “for fun” code repositories to Git and found them. Not only do they do git but Subversion, Mercurial, ticket tracking, wiki and some project management. For ~$9 dollars a month it’s great deal and a great tool.
The support is awesome. I requested a feature, they implemented it and sent me a follow up email to let me know it was...
September 2009
4 posts
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Database denormalization and Digg →
Interesting article on Digg and the “No-SQL” movement. My recent foray into CouchDB is my start at looking at alternatives to RDBMS.
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Writing a new MVC application: What to use for...
So I’m writing a new personal “for fun” application and I really can’t decide on what to use for the persistence layer. I on the one hand I love NHibernate (I can’t get enough of Oren Eini’s blog on the matter http://ayende.com/Blog/), personally I don’t mind the Entity Framework from MS, you have to give a little love but it does work. I’ve also...
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August 2009
3 posts
I have finally entered the post-blackberry corporate era! Goodbye pearl hello iPhone! I have had the iPhone for several months but now that it’s my only phone for my corporate email I’m finding that there are little things I don’t like about it… Single view of corporate + other email accounts and notification of new email on locked up screen to name a few.
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ →
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Cool interactive graph from NY Times on how people... →
July 2009
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C# 3.0 inline class instantiation and MS...
This throws an error:
var entity = new Entity() { Name = name, TokenValue = tokenValue }; ValidationResults r = Validation.Validate(entity);
This works:
var entity = new Entity(); entity.Name = name; entity.TokenValue = tokenValue; ValidationResults r = Validation.Validate(entity);
My understanding of C# 3.0 is that the two above statements are doing the exact same thing, but I guess they...
What's in your wallet?
I checked out my credit reports over the weekend via http://www.annualcreditreport.com (which is the official start place for the government mandated free once-per-year credit check). Aside from the fact that my wife does an awesome job of paying our bills on time I also noted that Capital One checked my credit 35 times in a 15 month period. Incredible, especially as I don’t even have a...
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Lazy reporting or is it?
I was listening to Mike Birbiglia on NPR this weekend. I love his style of comedy. At the end of his piece the announcer advertises his upcoming tour and says “search the internet for his name for detail”. At first my thoughts were along the lines of this being some sloppy reporting. Why not just give us the web address.
Then it occurred to me. First, I usually listen to the radio in...
June 2009
4 posts
Bad day to have a Mac problem
IPhone 3G S day is not the day to have a hard drive issue on my Mac notebook. Zero chance of getting it into the Genius bar today or tomorrow.
“Personal use of a corporate cell/blackberry is taxable income”
– Heard on NPR - good to know
Coding Horror: The Wrong Level of Abstraction →
May 2009
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Where are all the macs on campus
I was on campus at my Alma Mater (University of Cincinnati) last night as an alumni panelist for their Information Systems program. Of the 10 or so laptops I saw in the student lounge none were a Mac. Has advertising lied to us? I know my sample size was small but I thought I might see just one.
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Wife went into labor this morning and we are now hanging out at the hospital. The hospital has put up a wireless network since the last time we were here. It’s even a very respectable 12mb/s up and down so we can, hopefully, get grandparents on the web cam.
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Wifi mystery resolved...
Izzy has been saying “Wifi!” for weeks and we never knew what it meant. I (naturally) assumed she was conjecturing about the availability of over the air networking. However, it turns out she means “this way” as in “come here and do something with me!”
April 2009
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“When you lend your car you’re also lending your insurance.”
– My insurance agent. Wish I’d known this yesterday.
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Bucketwise: a Rails example from a 37 Signals...
Jamis Buck just released v1.0 of his Bucketwise personal finance application. I have been getting into the Rails framework for the past 6 months or so (I just finished my first rails app last week - more on than later). I was excited that he opened it up and released it on Github, mostly because I wanted to see how a 37 Signals guy would put a fairly straightforward app together using their Ruby...
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Stateside Living
Grocery shopping in a local store
Cashier: Where are you from?
Me: I grew up in England, but moved here a few weeks ago
Pause
Cashier: Did you drive?
Me: (trying to give the benefit of the doubt) From 'home' ... today?
Cashier: No, from England
Me: ... it's a long way to drive...
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Off to my first Reds game of the year. Looking forward to it as we have nice seats, it’s perfect weather and the Reds are coming off a winning series against Chicago.