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Haiku for an April

04/20/2008 haiku(3)

A few haiku with the overall polish and depth of an hour. Also some pictures from this past weekend, mostly of nature.

Technical Debt and Peanut Butter Jars

03/10/2009 software-engineering(11)reflection(3)

Let me regale you with the story of technical debt and peanut butter jars. A harrowing tale from my past.

Introducing a Tutorial and touchDefense

11/11/2008 cocos2d(4)touchdefense(1)monocle-studios(1)

This post introduces the iPhone game that Luke Hatcher and I have been working on: touchDefense. It is a tower defense style app, and in our humble opinions is a lot of fun to play. This post also introduces Monocle Studio's first whitepaper, which is an in-depth tutorial for getting started with Cocos2d iPhone.

Being a Local Maximum

10/19/2008 writing(20)contract(2)

Are you the best programmer in your project group? Are you a solitary contract developer? When the curtail starts falling, do you know you'll be the one who'll carry the project or be the last one crushed by its weight? Well, then I guess you're a Local Maximum. Congratulations, and my condolences.

R.I.P. Your Resume Site to Awesome

10/18/2008 python(48)aym-cms(4)

Resume Interactivity Provider is a simple reusable application for generating interactive resume websites that are powered by completely static components (JavaScript, HTML, CSS).

Spring Doesn't Come in February, But Snow Does

02/24/2008 japan(43)jet(30)

The weather here is insane. It was getting above freezing and fairly pleasant for the last four or five days, but then it all flipped.

Restricting User Signups in Django

10/12/2008 django(73)

A brief and informal article on restricting the user signups using an arbitrary signup code with a specified number of uses. Could this be made into a pluggable app?

Setting Up Django-Rcsfield

10/15/2008 django(73)python(48)

I spent an hour or two last night figuring out how to get django-rcsfield working, and figure that the notes from the experience might benefit anyone else trying to do the same. With these notes, you too should only be thirty minutes away from adding version control to your Django textfields.

Quick Notes for Starting 2010

01/02/2010

A few very brief notes on this and that to clear out some of my congested thoughts before getting focused on the technical writing that people actually read.

Sparklines.js Port to Python

09/13/2008 python(48)sparklines-js(3)

Here is an incomplete and imperfect port of Sparklines.js to Python, extracted from an incomplete project that has lost much of its momentum.


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