Getting business is not an entitlement
I just came back from the National Veterans Small Business Conference and Expo. I was really impressed at the outreach that prime contractors and government agencies showed. They are…
Showing “Sphere”it
Several of our recent projects have involved different methods of data sorting, manipulation, and visualization. An example of this is now available with the University of Virginia Librarys BlacklightDL…
Turning Waterfall Contracts into Scrum Contracts
This Monday we were fortunate to hear Dr. Jeff Sutherland give a presentation on Scrum at our monthly Neon Guild meeting. He was going to be doing some training…
Parsing Ruby for Porting
Ive recently started a research project to port a Ruby workflow engine (OpenWFEru) to Python. I thought that if I could write a basic Ruby parser I could at…
A Web 2.0 Bubble?
Reuters reported this morning that the number of contributors to many Web 2.0 sites such as YouTube and Flickr is much smaller than the number of people who come…
Upgrading to Subversion 1.4 on a Fedora Core 4 Server
Yesterday Eric asked me to upgrade our Subversion version from 1.2 to 1.4 in order to take advantage of the new XML responses needed by CruiseControl.rb. My first clue…
Does the virtual world equal the real world?
This is the question that the FBI is asking of Second Life as they investigate Second Lifes casinos. The three biggest casinos, according to the CNN article, make $1,500/month…
Comparing DateTime and Date
For my project Novo, Ive been working on a script to sync my Apple iCal to Googles gCal. Think of it as a poor mans version of SpanningSync. One…
RE: System logs as reproducible scripts
Duane Gran recently pinged me about thoughts on “System logs as reproducible scripts”. Its a topic that Ive been running into recently as weve gone into testing a web…
Continous Integration Tools Market is splitting…
In the beginning there was CruiseControl, the original Continous Integration tool. Most people, including myself, cut there teeth on CruiseControl. Then, over time, a couple of opensource projects started…
Better iTunes song deduping
**Update 4/24/2011. TidySongs is now Rinse! Same great product, but new vendor with a deeper music database that seems to match better. Ive updated the links. ** *Update 5/16/2010….
How to dedupe your iTunes collection
Update 5/25/20 Rinse appears to be gone, or just out of date and bad. Not sure, with Apple Music etc if we dedupe these days! Update 4/24/2011. TidySongs is…