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 [...]
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 [...]
Last month, we kicked off our first 757 Python Users Group meeting. We had 17 people attend. Tomorrow night, we have our second meeting. If you live in the Hampton Roads area, please stop by.
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 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’m set to go. I’ll be arriving in Chicago on Wednesday, March 12 in the late afternoon. I’m attending the tutorials on Thursday and going to the conference through Sunday. I can’t wait. I want to learn Python and Django so much that I’m paying my own way. I didn’t even ask my work since [...]
