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Crunch Time

When timelines are short, and days are long.Testing relationships, and granting opportunity.The crucible of development, the forge of unity.

White Noise and Field of Vision

I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was a child, and took medicine until I was a Junior in college. For some reason the military doesn’t want recruits on speed. I’m glad to be off drugs, but the diagn...

Raring Ringtail Review.

I’ve been using Ubuntu on and off since 2007. It’s consistently been my favorite operating system, and pretty much got me through college. Ubuntu has a lot going for it right now. Along with its (...

Ode to my Windows partition.

Oh windows partitionIt’s you I can not quitSo you eat up half my hard driveAnd I treat you like shitWith you I just do not careAbout a very slow bootOr About my desktop clutterAs long as there are ...

You have to get there FROM here.

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” - LoaziOverengineering is a difficult problem to diagnose and remedy. Good software engineers always have an eye on the horizon looking fo...

Premetacognition

Ray Kurzweil is one of my favorite people. He may be a little crazy, trying to live forever is ambitious to say the least, but his books always leave me excited about the future, and eager for ...

Java: the bane of computer science freshmen

I didn't start programming until college. My first programming language was Malab/Octave. I fell in love over spring break when I was able to spend the entire week writing and debugging what in&nbs...

We must Act

Support the EFF!  Demanding transparency and battling encroachment on our digital liberties is more important than ever. The federal government appears to be spying on phone calls and internet...

Launched My Site

c0d3it.co After a few months of basically screwing around, I have finally launched my personal site. I wanted to do more than have a blog on it, since you know I have this blog. And I’ve been less ...

Jasmine Tips: Spies!

We Started using Jasmine for JavaScript testing about 4 months ago. It was chosen because it resembles rspec, and lately minimizing context shift has been a goal for our team. So far I really like ...