March 2011
1 post
Hello, world.
I’ve neglected this for, well, awhile. I’ve been busy. You understand. In all likelihood, if you’re actually reading this, chances are you were redirected here sniffing around some shortened URL from http://m4rc.io/, and were nosy. It’s currently redirecting directly to http://slpsys.com/, which redirects here. I used to put, well, a handful of stuff here. Then I got busy....
October 2008
2 posts
An update to the Aug. 1 post
$0.01? If only. Thanks to an incredibly short deadline for a client pulling in the low tens of millions of requests per day, we’re rolling out a frontend using EC2 and S3. Sure, it’s expensed, but it’s impressive how quickly usage grows at a rate of $0.10/machine hour. More on that later.
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September 2008
2 posts
A slap in all our faces
From an interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++:
My favorite quotation:
“Keep it simple; as simple as possible, but no simpler.” - A. Einstein
Headline: Tingz Adds More Widgets To Your Life
Great! Just what I needed. A dashboard of useless little trinkets showing off what I don’t have time to pay attention to, anyway. Honestly, Twidget is about the only Web 2.0-ish widget I ever use, and that’s rarely. From the brief article, this ties in OS X, iPhone, and Windows mobile. However, it seems like 2.0 companies had no problem whatsoever cranking out 2.5 different frontends...
August 2008
4 posts
Secret Tip
If you realize that all of the food restaurants around you close at 10, after you’ve just come home at 9:40, and have very little in the way of items or condiments, you can crumble up tortilla chips into browning lettuce and pour 2 tbsp salsa on top. You have made a taco salad.
Editor’s Note: I live in California now.
I should really start using this thing when I'm...
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July 2008
1 post
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From the NHibernate source:
Dialect.Dialect dialect = Dialect.Dialect.GetDialect(properties);
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June 2008
4 posts
Pave-Warticle Duality
Are there any crash courses in ASP.NET out there for non-idiots? I’ve worked informally with C# in some pretty decent detail with COM/unmanaged bridging, and some of the new LINQ/lambda/functional stuff looks really cool. Oh, and the jobs, right, those. I do want to play around a bit with NHibernate for O/RM, but the LINQ stuff seems somewhat antithetical with regard to it at first glance....
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New Hosting
I’ve recently picked up VPS hosting from SliceHost, which has—for all of 14 hours—been great. I’m not generally one to gush about things, but services are somewhat different. Granted, I can only evaluate those attributes that really matter as time goes on, but in terms of ease of use, features, support, et al. So far I’m really impressed. The pricing could be a bit...
May 2008
2 posts
The Soggy Bike Commuter Speaks (hey, not me today)
Rains on Sustainable Transportation Day. Rains on Ride-Your-Bike-to-Work Day (though holds out for most of the week). Mother Nature sure is doing herself a disservice if she’s trying to encourage more people to kick their car habit.
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Why start a blog if you're not going to update it?...
Sheesh. I’m working on the three month point, here. More than anything, I think blogging is comprised of at least one part vanity, something that I’ve always been gun-shy with, at least to start. Giving presentations, teaching courses, playing live music, running a radio show, interviewing — for better or worse, I’ve always found that I, like just about everyone, perform at...
February 2008
2 posts
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Hate Experts-Exchange?
…and really, who doesn’t? I’m constantly trying to give myself little exercises when I have free time (rarely), especially in JavaScript because it seems like there’s going to be no escaping it in the future for just about any application that is Web-facing. Whether that is, isn’t, or has been the case for so long that it’s not worth even mentioning here is...
January 2008
1 post
A Wendistic Retrospectus
Slogans 1970 - Present: Quality Is Our Recipe 1978: Juicy hamburgers and lots of napkins 1979: Hot-N-Juicy 1980: Wendy’s Has the Taste 1981: Ain’t No Reason to Go Anyplace Else 1982: You’re Wendy’s Kind of People 1983: Parts is parts 1984: Where’s the Beef? 1986: Choose Fresh, choose Wendy’s 1987: Give a Little Nibble Circa 1990: The best burgers and a whole...