By barneyb on April 17, 2009
Complex Drive is having some issues with routing traffic to my current server from certain locations. So if you can't get to my site, that's why. Seems that a relatively small portion of the internet actually passes through the offending router, so that's good. Unfortunately, Mentor is one of those locations, so [...]
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By barneyb on April 8, 2009
It's CSS Naked Day again, at least on the East edge of Earth, but we'll soon catch up. Strip your <BODY> for the world! After doing it manually the last couple years, this time I'm using the excellent CSS Naked Day WordPress Plugin by Aja Lorenzo Lapus.
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By barneyb on March 22, 2009
Saw this on pictureisunrelated.com and had to share:
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By barneyb on December 13, 2008
As a musician, is it strictly necessary to blaze through every piece of music you play? Listening to Christmas music on Pandora and probably 2/3rds of tunes, particularly non-orchestral pieces, are at about 125% the speed they should be played. It doesn't make you a better player just because you can flail your fingers and/or [...]
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By barneyb on November 6, 2008
Mentor Graphics (where I work) is looking for a top-notch CF/Flex/Java architect/developer to join our team. There are five of us at the moment, and we need another one. This is an on-site position in Wilsonville, OR (just south of Portland), and relocation assistance is available.
The "official" qualifications are pretty typical, and largely waive-able for [...]
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By barneyb on June 20, 2008
So As I said in my last post, there's been a lot of talk about integrating CFML apps with other bits. I've been playing with Groovy and Grails a fair amount (duh), as well has having a lot of conversations about it. I've been trying to figure out what the best use case is for [...]
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By barneyb on June 16, 2008
Here I am just out of the shower, sitting on the back patio with bare feet and a t-shirt, sunset behind the trees, listening to the babbling fountain and some Leaves Eyes', and finishing up a bag of Mother's Circus Animal cookies. If only I had a fruity drink with a little umbrella in it…
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By barneyb on June 16, 2008
Tomorrow morning I hop on a plane to CFUNITED in Washington DC. Four days of learning, chatting, getting far too little sleep, and generally being a programmer geek 24 hours a day. Even better, Joshua and Koen (two coworkers) are coming as well. It's been a hellish past few weeks at Mentor, and getting a [...]
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By barneyb on May 11, 2008
I've just added a simple projects page for the projects that I blog about here. There you should be able to find a comprehensive list of projects and their updates from my blog. It's a one-stop shop for the stuff I write. I've often considered the best solution for managing all that, and decided simplest [...]
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By barneyb on November 9, 2007
I believe I've blogged about Excalibur (an RPN calculator for Win32) before, but I just discovered the wide array of constants that it has built in:
While I can't say that I use many of those numbers in my daily calculations (which are usually either pixels or dollars), the last one is definitely useful.
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