First thoughts on Flex 3 public beta 3

February 6, 2008

As I dive head-first into the world of Flex, I decided to start trial use of Flex Builder 3 public beta 3. Although there are some incomplete areas and a few glitches, on the whole the tutorials they provided were nice introductions. I'm pleased with the manual layout tools. I tend to like to do [...]

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Get two sensible candidates on the November ballot

February 5, 2008

This is especially targeted toward Washington state residents! Have you voted in the primary yet? Do you plan to? Are you voting as a Democrat? If you are, consider this: search google for "washington state democratic party does not use popular vote in primary" and notice that, and I quote, "The Democratic Party has never [...]

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Two ways to install Mercurial on Mac OSX Leopard

January 31, 2008

I'm back on the OSX platform, using Leopard, even. After a four-month absence, all of the keyboard shortcuts are coming back to me quickly. (The most disruptive I think is the distinction between switching between apps and switching between different windows of the same app.) I'm still within the first 24 hours of installing software [...]

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Time slipped away…

January 22, 2008

... as I created Slipper last night. Today, 0.1a1 came to fruition! That was a lot of fun, and part of my geeky repository-as-documentation-website dreams have come true!

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Backporting mercurial 0.9.5 to Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy”

January 11, 2008

I've fallen in love with Mercurial. It's used by projects and people that I respect, and I'm using it more and more. I wanted to make sure I was using the latest version, but I didn't want to uninstall gutsy's version 0.9.4 and install it from source, nor did I want to upgrade my entire [...]

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367 days and counting!

January 10, 2008

I don't count every few days anymore, but I'm still counting. My body has now been tobacco-free for 367 days! That is to say, the only tobacco smoke that has entered my lungs during those 367 days has been second-hand smoke during brief encounters with smokers where it's wasn't convenient for me to move somewhere [...]

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Patch for hg.setuptools to play nice in a virtualenv

January 7, 2008

I am using Mercurial to manage the source for some of my newer projects, and hg.setuptools caught my attention as something that would be very useful. I'm used to having the same functionality using Subversion, that is to say, I'm used to setuptools figuring out what files it should include with a distribution based on [...]

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Ubuntu, Athlon 64, and erratic keyboard repeats

January 2, 2008

Symptoms: Strange, intermittent, erratic, and persistent key repeating Setting: Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) AMD Athlon 64 processor Potential cause: Differences between how Intel and AMD chips handle timing, exacerbated by the use of the i386 flavor of the kernel included with Ubuntu. Solution: Install the generic flavor of the kernel: * sudo aptitude install linux-generic [...]

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Restful sleep

December 20, 2007

My body tires, so I respect its wishes. I say goodnight to my work, minimize all my windows, and prepare for a restful slumber.

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Trac

December 19, 2007

I am working on ticket A. I find something that could be fixed or refactored, but it interferes with keeping focus on the scope of ticket A. I immediately create a new ticket B to describe the desired change. I continue working on ticket A at full speed.

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