Miscellaneous Ramblings of an Apple, Linux, Photography and sports geek
With the new iMac 6 weeks from being delivered, I’m thinking about the software I’ll install. So here goes: Aperture 3 Photoshop CS5 iLife ’11 iWork ’09 (unless ’11 comes out by then) Chrome Firefox 4 Final Cut Pro X (Currently have Final Cut Studio, but think I’ll sell it and buy it from the [...]
I just registered for PyCon 2011 today. I did not think I was going this year, since I started a new job and didn’t have any time off. But I realized today that I could still attend as long as I didn’t go to the tutorials. So after getting permission from my wife, I’m on [...]
Two months ago, I was fortunate to land a job doing Rails development full-time. It’s been a long slow process, but I’m finally getting a grasp of it. Or at least pieces of it. Here is my story: My Programming Background For the last 5 years, my background in web development was ColdFusion. It was [...]
Since getting my iPad in April, I’ve become a fan of eBooks. I took advantage of some coupon codes on O’Reilly last month and purchased electronic copies of many of my books. Here is a list of what I currently have on my iPad: ePub format Agile Web Development with Rails 4th Edition Rails Recipes [...]
I’m flying to Chicago this afternoon to attend PyCon 2009. I can’t wait. I’ll be attending two days of tutorials. The tutorials I’m attending are: Introduction to the Google App Engine Geographic Information Systems in Python Python 401: Some Advanced Topics Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming On Friday morning, I’m chairing one of the sessions which [...]
I wasn’t fortunate enough to attend DjangoCon 2008 at Google’s headquarters but I’m happy to see that the videos from the conference are now available on Youtube and Google Video. I really liked the Django Success Stories discussion. It is interesting to see how small most of the development teams are for these projects. The [...]
I work for a city government. It’s actually my second time with them. I left them in January 2001 because I was ready to write web applications and they weren’t. Because the I.T. department didn’t care about the web in the 1990′s, the website fell into the hands of the Public Information Office. And its [...]
This time, its been six months since I last blogged. I keep thinking that I’m going to write my own blog using Django, but with 5 year old twins, there isn’t a lot of time to do this. So I’ll stick with WordPress for now. What have I been doing this year? Well, I went [...]
I’ve been keeping track of high school football scores in Virginia for quite a while. And I’ve been meaning to create a site to that will provide information on schools, seasons, etc. I also plan to add video highlights as well. Since I haven’t yet settled on a framework, I’ve decided that I will detail [...]
