February 2010
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My Nexus One Battery Adventure
As I’ve tweeted about, probably all too much, I’ve been having issues with my new Nexus One. I love the phone and it has yet to leave me wanting, if it weren’t for one thing, the battery.
I’ve been having issues where the phone’s battery is well charged and then without notice, the charge drops to zero. A few days go it went one worse, after falling off the power...
January 2010
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Web Application Development with Tornado
I recently finished a rewrite of privatepaste.com in python using Tornado as the web framework. There are multiple reasons why I decided to use Tornado instead of something like Django, cherry.py or web.py, all of which I’ve previously used. One of the main reasons for my choice to switch to Tornado was due of its feature-rich yet light-weight nature. In addition, the benchmarks and asynchronous...
October 2009
2 posts
On Net Neutrality
The Internet as you know it is about to change. If you live in the United States and pay for Broadband Internet access, there is a good chance your Internet Service Provider is looking to discriminate against you and what you do on the Internet. Using network management tools and high-tech equipment they watch what you do on the Internet with the intention to block activities and in some cases,...
Running Playlist #1
I’ve been working on a good playlist to keep me going as I’m running. I’m hoping the playlist can be a good motivational tool to keep running longer. This playlist is 41 minutes which should work out just about right for my current goals:
One Of These Days - Pink Floyd (Meddle) 5:58
Ringfinger - Nine Inch Nails (Pretty Hate Machine) 5:41
Stinkfist - Tool (Ænima) 5:11
Du...
September 2009
2 posts
The Attention Deficit Disorder Guide to RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ has been one of my interests of late, as I’ve identified it as part of our technology path at work. There are other very good resources that dive pretty deep in RabbitMQ and how to use it. The goal of this guide is to help you get on your feet quickly and easily. It assumes a couple of things:
You already know about message queues and have some experience or knowledge on the subject.
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1984
I don’t know exactly how I got out of reading 1984 in school. Had I read it, I am sure it would not have done much but reinforce my anti-establishment teen angst.
I recently took the opportunity to read the book, finishing it last night. I am still trying to formulate my feelings about the book, but ultimately I think it was a very good book, moving in its brutality. I’m not speaking...
April 2009
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March 2009
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jQuery Tip: How to break out of .each()
I’m working on a dynamic page using jQuery where I have an unordered list of 12 items, one of which will randomly have the class “selected.” My goal was to find out the position in the list of the “selected” item. I hunted around the various properties I could get from a jQuery selector and didn’t find what I was looking for so I ended up with the following solution as illustrated by the...
Dropped IE support for Instapaper →
A great blog post illustrating why IE is a pain to code for. Marco Arment mirrors my sentiment on the subject.
February 2009
1 post
January 2009
5 posts
Google Apps for Domains Utils →
GitHub.com Repository for a suite of command line python scripts for maintaining my Google Apps for Domains account. I figured other people might find these useful.
gdata Python Client Mappings
I had a little bit of an issue today finding out that Google’s gdata Python library changes attribute names for the UserEntity class to match with the PEP8 naming conventions. Here’s a quick rundown:
userName becomes user_name
changePasswordAtNextLogin becomes change_password
ipWhitelisted becomes ip_whitelisted
agreedToTerms becomes agreed_to_terms
hashFunctionName becomes...
YES WE CAN (Side with the Bush Administration)! →
Obama Sides With Bush in Spy Case | Threat Level from Wired.com
Chicago Style Q&A: One Space or Two? →
I’ve not thought too much about this, but it makes sense. Now to break the double-space habit after a period.
An amazing tilt-lens video →
Keith Loutit’s amazing tilt-lens video at a monster truck rally.
November 2008
2 posts
October 2008
1 post
New Website
I’ve decided it’s too much work to keep up my own instance of blogging software and such so I have changed my site to work completely based off the content I publish on various sites. I use twitter fairly heavily, so I figured that it would be a good “first view” of what’s going on with me. For my photos, I’ve decided I like Flickr over Picasaweb and Smugmug....
August 2008
2 posts
June 2008
2 posts
Thought of the Day
Your database is an ecosystem.
Tumblr Opera Bug
Can’t edit the caption of an image in Opera 9.5
May 2008
23 posts
Fat Guys in Dusters with a Fu-Manchu Moustache... →
Polaroid - Again →
Received the new FLM3732 replacement unit on Thursday in a box that’s far too flimsy to ship a television in, though there was adequate foam packing. The LCD has a “dark streak” in it, about 1” wide…
Dirty Sheep #2 →
Ralph's ambition is to one day become a... →
Clinton Supporters Send Last-Ditch Obama Attack... →
Reindexing Concurrently →
Index bloat can be a major pain in heavy OLTP databases. With Reindex being a blocking operation in Postgres, you can not reasonably reclaim index bloat in a large database by hand without going…
crad on tumblr →
Approved
twittletumbl.com has been approved by Twitter as a source for content.
Fragmented Intarwebs
How many boxes can I squeeze myself into in these intertubes?
JQuery and Separation of Concerns →
For my .net friends: Using jQuery w/ ASP/.net
Most bizarre Git service and other stupid Rails... →
Become a Greasemonkey Ninja with jQuery →
TwittleTumbl →
Little project I am working on… a Tumblr->Twitter Gateway service.
Help! I'm stuck in a box!
Tumblr, post to my twitter, would you be so kind?
Piwik - Web analytics - Open source →
Widgetmaker: Lost developer enthusiam cuts... →
NiN Discipline
Flickr: gavinmroy's Photostream →
Stumblr
Pointless? Full of alcohol? Food poisoning? Nice use of tinymce.
