I have started roller-blading again after a two plus year absence. I
had forgotten how much fun it is. I managed to escape the office for
a while today and go blading on the Boulder Creek Path. Blading is
like biking in the sense that you don’t really forget how to do it.
So even with […]
I am not going to be able to attend RailsConf this year. That means I have one RailsConf ticket I would like to sell at face value ($400 US). I also have a conference rate ($100/night) hotel reservation for June 22-26 at the Wyndham O’Hare that I will transfer to whomever buys the […]
A few months ago Mr O’Grady mused about coffee shops being good
places to
work.BTW
Stephen, when is the next Denver Tech
Meetup? In that post he
mentioned that he really liked the idea that while working in a public
space you might run into other technically inclined people from the
area. That idea had not occured to me before but […]
I am just finishing my first day here at WebRoot. It has been an interesting day. I have learned a little of how things work here and meet some great people. You know, the usual first day sort of stuff. I cannot wait to do some real work.
For the first time […]
Today is my last day at CFP Board. That means that this is my last
day working with RoR professionally, for a
while at least, and that makes me a little sad.
RoR is a sweet piece of work. It is a platform on which a developer
can be enormously productive. For example, I fixed three […]
Things have been a little quiet around here lately because my life has
gotten a little busy.
We close on our new
house
on Friday and we close on our current house the middle of next month.
Fortunately, that gives us a couple of weeks to move. The new house
is a bit less characterful than we had hoped we […]
I am regularly amazed by what ends up on the Internet. Today’s
example is this Wikipedia article about the Magik programming
language.Via
Charlie Savage Magik is a
proprietary language developed by a company call Smallworld, which was
later acquired by GE. I worked in the Magik programming language for
six years and it is easily the second best language […]
This is day two of the RTD
strike. That means that
today is my second day of commuting to downtown Denver by car.
Commuting by car is so much less civilized that riding the bus.
Catherine and I have rearranged our schedules so that I can leave the
house earlier than I usually would. That seems to let […]
Have I mentioned lately that I hate house shopping. Actually, maybe
it is house selling I hate. Either way I will be very, very, very
happy when this moving thing is over.
Our second potential house feel through other the week-end. It was a
plain house that backed to a nice park in the burbs. […]
Charles Savage has started a blog. Finally. I worked with, and for, him at Smallworld, and then General Electric. He is wicked smart and usually a bit ahead of the curve. I definitely look forward to hearing more of what he has to say.
