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Open Source Gamer Goes to Ontario Linux Fest 2008
Last, last weekend (October 25) I attended my first conference, Ontario Linux Fest 2008. And what an awesome event it was! The event turned out be a somewhat low key event. Not a huge number of exhibitor booths, but the Eclipse, Fedora, FOSSology, FSF, OpenStreetMap and Drupal people had setup shop there. The event featured…
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Silent Running
Please excuse the long silence. Recently I’ve had to concentrate on my offline life for the most part. Hence the lack of blog posts. I’m still writing and plan on publishing one of my older “books”. The science fiction novel is inching along. More details about the potential publishing, once I find out more details.…
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Incremental Progress
I owe a short update on what I’ve been up to: The majority of my life still revolves around work. And also the necessary preparation and commuting to work. Still I manage to have some free time. Most of that time is on catching up with tasks and work I planned to do months ago.…
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On Hacking with Maemo
Time is the ultimae in precious and scarce commodities. With work and travelling up North to kayak, I spend most of my spare time away from a workstation. Hence the convenience of owning a N810. I can code and write anywhere! Ok so I haven’t tried putting gcc or other c development tools on this…
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Experimental Web Application Branch
Yesterday I started upon moving justCheckers into a web application. I didn’t want to pollute the trunk of the subversion repository. So I created the webappbranch. You can grab it by running: svn checkout https://justcheckers.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/justcheckers/branches/webapps My next major task to tackle is updating the documentation on the wiki and in the source code. After that…
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Reopening the justCheckers Project
Made the plunge today into FOSS development again. As I mentioned in my previous post, I considered and started work on the next version of justCheckers. There are a few reasons why I restarted the project. I want to play around with Java web technologies. I also want to experiment with project management and FOSS…
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Maemo Hacking and Project Revivals
With such a cold wet summer, I thought I would spend more time hacking. Yet this year spare time is a scarce commodity and most of that time I find myself far from a proper development workstation. Fortunately with an Internet tablet in my pocket, I can at least start on learning about Maemo development.…
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A Call to Action and Progress in Writing
I’m disappointed folks. Where are all my comments on my excerpt? Did you even read it?!? Bah!!! Well so far, one my coworkers mentioned the wordiness of the passage. I know. I’m guilty of wanting to jam pack my sentences. This makes them almost unreadable. I know. I know. I should use terse short brief…
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Some Thoughts About Life and Consulting
Some thoughts to think about: Set expectations early. It avoids confusion and hassle in the future. Assertiveness instills confidence and helps achieve what you need. Smiling helps keep everyone positive and repels negativity from you. Show progress cause it encourages people. Review your goals and schedule time lines. This will make them concrete. Break up…
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Todo Progress So Far
Remember my TODO list for this year? No, I’m not gonna tell you when I posted it. And no if you find it, you are not allowed to post a link or a hint to it. If you are long time reader and you found it, consider yourself part of the in-crowd. So how well…