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Selling Off Some Domains
I was going to write about why needing an app isn’t a good way to try get into business. (Hint: It is very expensive, if you can’t code it yourself.) However something else popped up, namely I am trying to sell off two domains: justcheckers.org and justcheckers.net that I own. These were for the justCheckers…
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Welcome to 2010. Where the Hell is My Robotic Servant?
Happy New Year to all my readers! 2009 was quite an emotional year: the first batch of my close friends got married, a death in the family, the ups and downs of dating, professional life and all that jazz. Last year I’ve felt I’ve grown like no other year. I started work in 2008. But…
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Developers, Developers, Developers @ justCheckers
Looks like my recent cry for help with the justCheckers project, was heeded. I got about 12 responses, and now I’m in the process of picking the core development team. The developer mailing list is up and functional. And thanks to Dmitry Platonoff, who I used to work with, gave me a helpful hint to…
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Updates – justCheckers Open for Business
An update from the justCheckers website: Cleaned Up and Open for Business 2009, November 17 – 18:02 — Dorian Pula It took a while. A much needed upgrade, some changes to bring this site back into the larger multi-site effort I’m involved and some re-integration work back into SourceForge… and justCheckers is back! Finally there…
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Move It!
Today I realized I need to get a move on. I realize now that I must capitalize on the opportunity that is justCheckers. Originally I set up as a project to learn and advance my skills in programming Java and project management. I learned a great deal from that project. And after the project’s stalling,…
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A Return to Normality
Today marks the first day of getting back to my old schedule and routine. The transition turned out smoother than I imagined. Hopefully, no new quirk will appear and I get back to working on all my overdue tasks. As things stand: Writing the first part of the first chapter in the novel. Had tweak…
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Drupal Dreams
I love my WordPress powered blog. For a blogging site, WordPress is the way to go. However there are site that require me to step beyond the paradigms of a blog. Back in the day, I used to hardcode all my sites using XHTML & PHP. I’d make them elegant, minimalistic and W3C compliant. I…
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Of Journals and Juggling
I’ve found myself recently writing considerable amounts in my diary. I’ve had many a thought, that I felt compelled to write down. But such thoughts were fairly private in nature, so I will discuss or hint about them here. One of thought that I would like to share, is my temporary withdrawl from daily blogging. …
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Rethinking the justCheckers Website
After listening to my backlog of FLOSS Weekly shows, I’ve been thinking about my involvement with my own project. Naturally I want it to succeed. But I also want to use it as a portfolio of my work. On one hand, I’d like to hack everything together by myself. On the other hand, I simply…
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A Tiny Update
It is Friday. Feeling tired from the irregular sleep cycles of this past week. I didn’t move forward as fast I wanted to this week. I’ve felt distracted, tired and could not focus. Still the minutae of this week didn’t tie me down. Thanks to a friend my Polish writing improved in leaps and bounds…