tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51850222009-04-23T13:54:46.363-04:00finding the technical conversationBeebe4http://www.blogger.com/profile/05223865216890928438noreply@blogger.comBlogger452125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5185022.post-44329919037174891632009-04-12T23:37:00.003-04:002009-04-12T23:45:26.262-04:00

 For the first time in the history of the bird feeder contest, someone other then the elustrious John Ira Tureman took home the top prize!With my modern architeture inspired bird feeder, I beat out the very capable opponents featured below:SherryAlexShawn

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My wife just tried out the new Microsoft Live Calendar (their attempt to catch up to Google Calendar), and it is a case in point why Microsoft is a bad software company.When you go to "upgrade" to their new calendar it makes you choose between keeping your events or trying out new features. Are you kidding me?!?!?!?I have developed many, many pieces of software over my career, and this choice

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Here is a video for the behind scenes at the DNC. It is a nice change from the negativity and it shows some candid moments of the Obama family.

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One of client's at Hashrocket, Spot Us, has posted a video on his blog that he recorded this morning during our demo, showcasing the work that was completed in 3 days of development!Don't get me wrong, the great work by the designers was key to getting this done, and there is a week of face to face time where the client (in this case David Cohn) and the lead developer(s) lock themselves in a room

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Got my first "compliment" from co-worker today...."Have you lost weight?""Yeah, been doing Atkins""I thought so, your double chin is a little less obvious"

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Wow, just goes to show that you should live your life now, while you can. So sad to think that he has all this money now, and he will never get to enjoy it.Comedian and Chicago native Bernie Mac died early Saturday morning from complications due to pneumonia, his publicist confirmed.Mac, 50, had been hospitalized for about a week at Northwestern Hospital, according to his spokeswoman. A few

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After reading about it on the Apple Blog I thought I would share it here too.To create a ringtone from any song in your iTunes library, do the following:Right click on the song you are going to make into a ringer and select “Get Info.”Go to the options tab and go down to the “Start Time” and “Stop Time” check boxes. Check both boxes and input the time you want your ringer to start/stop. The

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So Google announced support for CalDAV last month. I tried it out on my MacBook Pro, hoping that it would allow me to have a free way to sync my Google Calendar to iCal and to my iPhone (using Mobile Me).I am sad to say, that if you have more then 3 calendars (i.e. shared calendars for work), that Spanning Sync is still the way to go.The main reasons are:Each calendar is a new Account in iCalThe

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So after 12 hours in the waiting room, a magical moment happened...Barbara danced:

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So I have started doing a Bootcamp through work... it really really sucks. It is kicking my butt and it feels good.I am thinking that I should have Sherry do this with me.

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So for those of you that have not heard, I am working at a great new company called Hashrocket, based out at the beach. More on that later, but I wanted to also fill you in that my old company has been purchased by Black Duck as of last week.I keep tabs on the news reports that are coming out about it, and this is the closest thing I have to a mention in them:But Levin says Koders’ three

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VERY SCARY!

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Bloggers have wordpress, mephesto, typo and other open source solutions. Yet there isn't an open source social network platform, until now. Built with Ruby on Rails this open source project has all the basic features you will need to setup a basic social network.read more | digg story

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Check me out at work:

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I just bought my first mac (MacBook Pro 15" with souped up HDD) and am going to have a transition period where I learn how to use the mac versus a PC. So I have decided to start blogging tips I learned.So here is tip #1:- to delete to the right of the cursor (on the laptop), hold down the function key while hitting delete- to delete to the left until the beginning of a word, hold down the ctrl

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Holy Funny!!

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BEHOLD the power of rails, and how a trained artisan can wield it's power. A pretty useful web application in 7 hours! No kidding! Check it out and then go get your education on.read more | digg story

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DevChix, "a group founded to help support women of all ages interested or active in development", is having an auction! This is a friend of my from the RubyJax group. She has a cool foundation promoting women in software development.read more | digg story

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As my wife mentioned on the family blog, I attended the inaugural RubyJax event last night.  I have to warn you that I am easily excited, but the group is chock ful o' some people I am excited about getting to know better. One of the main reasons I made the decision to leave Symantec and the  Hampton Roads area of Virginia, was because I felt that the company was very stale from a technical

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Just wanted to show off my son to you guys. If you would like to read more check out the family blog.

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I was reading QuadsZilla's post about the week he is having on the SEO Black Hat, and have to admit that it sounds like I am going about this whole software development thing the wrong way.   We were even hanging with Wiesn Playmate Anna Scharl (Miss October for German Playboy) and her sister most of the time we were out; they’re both sweethearts.   Tonight I’m going to the Opera and tomorrow I

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As posted by my wife on our family blog, we are going to induce labor to expedite the arrival of our second child if he has not come by that point. We are very excited and can't wait to share him with the world!

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As customer demands narrow-down, and the value you get from each engagement goes up, smaller, specialized vendors can gain a big advantage.read more | digg story

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I updated my template with a free one that I found online. I had just updated my non-technical family blog template and saw this one while looking through a ton of options. I like the search box that I had to plumb up and the category listing on the side. Blogger is getting better, but it is still behind some of the other blog services.

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