Home Coffee Roasting
I wrote an article on home coffee roasting for Tastebud last night. I’m a big fan of home roasting, and have been explaining it to a bunch of folks over the past couple of months. I thought it was...
View ArticleVictim of Time in Timeout Chicago
Victim of Time got a nice little plug in this weeks issue of Time Out Chicago (web version). I’ll post a scan of it soon. Unfortunately, they misrepresent my role a teeny bit, calling me “the...
View ArticleTechCoffee Soon
The wheels are churning on the next round of TechCoffee. I’m not sure when, or where, but I have decided on a project to work on. Actually, sort of projects. I set both of them up via Google Code. The...
View ArticleTechCoffee Season 2 First Friday
I just checked in my work from this morning’s TechCoffee. I created a very minimal set of migration scripts for Captains, Ships, Locations, and added a bit to the migration to build 10k locations in a...
View ArticleTechCoffee, November 17th
After two weeks of other things getting in the way, I attended TechCoffee this morning. I didn’t stick to my plan to work on Maturin though, instead I worked on some new stuff for Tastebud. We’ve been...
View ArticleNotes for Tonight's Chicago.pm Meeting
I’m presenting tonight at the Chicago Perl Monger’s meeting. I’m giving a tour of some stuff that might appeal to Perl programmers who want to learn new languages. I’m focusing on Ruby and Python. Here...
View ArticleSame Title Different Story
I’ve been working on a podcast the past few weeks. It’s officially online now at Same Title Different Story. The premise is pretty simple, I gave a title to a story to a group of friends, and asked...
View ArticleBricked my iBook
I set out to get Linux installed on my old iBook G4 over the weekend. Not a huge task, I thought, easy install good payoff, a fun weekend project. Bah. I downloaded the newly released and ported Ubuntu...
View ArticleDjango on AppEngine
I started my first AppEngine project this evening. I was lucky enough to get into the Beta. I don’t want to be too gushy or hyperbolic, but this is the future folks. I’m not going to cover the bits...
View ArticleObjective-C, Cocoa, OSX Desktop Apps & iPhone
Like a lot of developers nowadays, I’m spending some time learning Objective-C & the Cocoa Framework so that I can jump into iPhone development. I’m clearly a little late to the game, but I usually...
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