A fellow LinkedIn member asked me recently if we’d gone to Electrian’s school together, as we’d graduated in the same class from Naval Nuclear Power School. I didn’t recall his name, but it prompted me to dig around in the archives and pull up this photo. (clicking the picture will yield a 1.2 Mb PNG)
This next month, I’ll be flipping the calendar page to 2009 to schedule the next month’s work. I’ve been using a “desk-size” Day Runner - 5½” x 8½”, conveniently half a US Letter sized sheet - for fifteen years. I’ve got one of the older 3-ring models, and lots of the cool accessories: zip [...]
I regularly run my FireFox browser with JavaScript disabled, using the great NoScript plugin. Keeping JavaScript disabled by default protects me, a little, from malicious sites. “Malicious sites” used to be a codeword for “sites you shouldn’t visit anyway,” but all sites need to be considered malicious, owned by bad guys, until you have a [...]
Well, the Day Three notes are a bit rough. Wrapping up 800 miles of commuting and not enough sleep during the conference. But at least I didn’t have to come up with bail money Stay tuned. Expect updates, spell-fixes and proper grammar as I punch this up over the weekend…
Josh Susser, Pivotal Labs
dawn of [...]
Matt Knox did a stand-up presentation for the second day keynote, as Giles Bowkett was not able to make it to the conference. Matt was telling us about the great stuff he’s learned at conferences. Smalltalk is the coolest language ever. Unit Testing is not the greatest thing ever. Damien Katz’ great story of success. [...]
Warning: Draft nonsense, needs spell-check, grammar and thought completion.
Voices That Matter, Professional Ruby Conference 08, Sheraton Boston, November 17-20, 2008. Beautiful facilities, good good. This is a brand-new conference, version 1.0, and Obie Fernandez was the lead at designing the technical content and format, rather radical schedule: 3-30 minute sessions with 10 minute breaks, long [...]
Eight people attended the October meeting of the NH Ruby/Rails group, held as usual at RMC Research in Portsmouth on the third Tuesday of the month.
The meeting started with a general chat session where a range of issues
were covered. Quite a discussion about computer industry trade books was
a notable item. A round of introductions followed, [...]
Twice recently I’ve had conversations where I happened to mention my military service and the response was “Thank you for your service.” This is a new response to me, as I don’t think I heard it in the first two decades after I served. I was taken aback, but responded “I was glad to serve.” [...]
An even dozen (or maybe an odd dozen…) folks attended the October Python Special Interest Group meeting, held as usual on the fourth Thursday of the month at the Amoskeag Business Incubator.
It was a busy and exciting meeting. Vigorous conversations filled the first half hour, as we welcomed a few new members, a few [...]
