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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-10

  • @marccull jackpot – belgium beers and cheeses, i can't resist in reply to marccull #
  • looking for a place to live all today, exhausting, but a success! i really dig San Carlos #
  • @tyler_jennings the shakes and headache should start kicking in if they haven't already in reply to tyler_jennings #
  • @marccull @britt very soon… #
  • stoked about my move westward – well not the packing part, but everything else, the countdown begins – 19 more days #
  • we have enough idiots on the road, this just in…Ford cars to read your Twitter feed http://bit.ly/8FI4Nb #
  • Go Hawks! Stanley Cup here we come! #
  • @noelrap interesting parody of "you know your project isn't Agile when…" as compared to "you know you're a redneck when…" in reply to noelrap #
  • @noelrap "our velocity is x, but _we_ committed to x + 30, no worries i've hired bus load of new consultants so we're solid" :P in reply to noelrap #
  • @noelrap anti-patterns "Agile sometimes means 8 hour days sometimes it means 15 hour days" in reply to noelrap #
  • @bleitdm we'll see i might take you up on that in reply to bleitdm #
  • at&t u-verse sucking bad, 3 days without service and counting, one more day before i cancel their suck service #
  • @tyler_jennings this remains true, sample spec with nailgun 4m27.812s, without nailgun 1m1.999s, conclusion 2 much spring cruft in our stack in reply to tyler_jennings #
  • we really need to try out nailgun in jruby, waiting for our specs to fire up is exhausting and mind numbing #
  • Super Street Fighter IV coming this spring, a blast from my childhood, i'm kind of geeked about this #
  • Google Chrome keeps freezing up while looking at gmail, the irony #
  • google chrome is nice, but i need foxyproxy to switch back and forth easily #
  • 2 weeks on holiday without programming or touching a line of code was nice, but its good to be back #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-04

the link for Berkshire holdings list http://bit.ly/3ZeR4l #
Warren Buffet's Berkshire holdings A-Z for 2010, make some smart investments for the New Year! #
My French is horrible this is going to be interesting #
On a high speed train from Amsterdam to Paris #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-27

Merry Xmas American Airlines thanks for the upgrade #
Off to London, upgraded to biz class, American Airlines rocks! #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-21

Google in talks to buy Yelp, they can't buy everybody…oh wait yes they can #
IL to take Gitmo detainees – really??? We couldn't put them in N. Dakota or Montana, no send them to a place of cities+ppl+skyscrapers wtf #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-07

just updated my gems and then there was Rails 2.3.5 #

Session Store Strategy Using Memcached

It is becoming increasingly popular to mix technologies, frameworks, and languages to power a web site. So what happens when you want to share session data between some permutation of a Ruby, PHP, .NET, Python, Java web framework? Well of course using cookies is the first thing that should pop into your head, and with [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-29

off to Arkansas to visit the fam, hoping for warmer weather and some peace and quiet #
@tyler_jennings super jealous, be sure not to OD on caffeine in reply to tyler_jennings #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-22

squid cache rocks but the config is overwhelming #
back home after drinks at the wit, great micro brew selections #
On the record I do not think Maven is a very good tool, just tired of hearing complaints about unhappy users, build your own and move on #
@tyler_jennings People should starting shaming themselves for adopting it, [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-15

Truth, the way I see it http://bit.ly/4teuMz #
got a nasty cold, and everyone around me is trying to convince me I have swine flu…people can still get a regular freakin' cold #
apache tomcat is 10 years old? …remembering when it first came out, but the cool news is tomcat 7 is due to release late [...]

Surprise birthday party, wow!

As I stumbled my way into the weekend feeling sick and hacking up a lung from this nasty cold. I thought the weekend would be a no frills, real simple, lay on the couch and get better stretch. Weeks ago Lauren invited a friend from out of town, Brandy, and she told me we would [...]