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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! See Y’all in 2013!
Just a quick post this time, since this is one heck of a busy day. Actually the whole year has been kept me super-busy beyond my wildest dream. While I could of made do with less stress, it definitely pushed me to grow out of necessity. I definitely am a stronger professional than in the…
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PyCon and Beyond
Last weekend I went to the first ever PyCon Canada. What an incredible event! I met so many friendly, amazing, smart and talented people. I learned so many new things, that essentially my knowledge of Python, and web technologies practically jumped to the next level over the course of 2 days. The entire event left…
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Now Accepting Tips via Gittip
I know this is totally an artsy thing to do but… you can tip me now! So if you find my blog entries or the code that I put up on Github useful, feel free to tip me for my efforts. Thankful my day job at Bluerush pays for my day-to-day. But I would appreciate…
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The Python Scene, Accepting Javascript, and Lots of REST
Life continues at a breakneck pace. Despite my best laid plans, the surest way of getting things done at the moment is in a sort of out-order manner. However I did want to share a brief update on my journey into the Python and web application development world. Instead of separate long form articles, I…
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Keeping Track of Time – Part 1 – Recognizing the Problem
I have a confession to make. Like many other software developers, my time estimates are seem to vary from real time. Yes, giving accurate time estimates are a difficult task, especially ones that are over long extended periods of time. Add on top of that time seems like an illusion at times, and you have…
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Ghosts in the RSS Feed
A few days back I noticed a new entry in my RSS for an old blog of mine: http://opensourcegamer.blogspot.ca/ I was really surprised, since I had left that blog and closed down account years ago. I started that blog when still in university and before I could afford my own fancy WordPress installation. Years later after…
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Penguins and Pythons, Oh My!
Note: I have been meaning to get this post up for a while now. However since I am swamped with work in general, everything is delayed and taking longer than expected. Sorry about that. As I mentioned in an early post, I am working on building up my professional experience in Python. It has been…
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Linux SATA HDD Issues with Samsung RF-711
OK, this is a quick post for anyone who is running into issues with using Linux on a Samsung RF-711. Specifically this applies to Ubuntu Linux 12.04 64-bit. Essentially what was happening, was that periodically my entire machine would freeze with the exception of anything currently running. This kept on happening all the time, until…
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Added Contact Page
Hey there! It has been a while since I’ve blogged hasn’t it? I have been terribly busy with getting life’s issues sorted out. Plus I’ve been busy with a large scale project that might change everything for me. But this post isn’t about that. Rather it is about the brand new spanking Contact Me page!…
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Upgrades All Around!
It seems that last week was a week of upgrades for me. First I got to upgrade two laptops and a server to the brand new spanking Ubuntu 12.04 (Kubuntu and the Server editions of course). Unlike people living in the Ubuntu world, Kubuntu is fairly stable and 12.04 just packaged a few nice updates…