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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Pablo’s Fiesta – Los Techies Open Spaces
Over the weekend I made a trip to Austin to attend the Los Techies’ Open Spaces event entitled Pablo’s Fiesta. This was an Open Spaces Conference where the focus was on software craftsmanship. There were a lot of good sessions and I managed to be introduced to several new ideas, technologies, and even a new programming language. While I’m still letting a lot of what I saw, heard, and read while there sink in, you can expect some blog posts in the (near) future about some of the things that were brought up and demonstrated. Continue reading
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Pablo's Fiesta – Los Techies Open Spaces
Over the weekend I made a trip to Austin to attend the Los Techies’ Open Spaces event entitled Pablo’s Fiesta. This was an Open Spaces Conference where the focus was on software craftsmanship. There were a lot of good sessions and I managed to be introduced to several new ideas, technologies, and even a new programming language. While I’m still letting a lot of what I saw, heard, and read while there sink in, you can expect some blog posts in the (near) future about some of the things that were brought up and demonstrated. Continue reading
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gEdit Color Themes
I’ve been using gEdit (the default text editor in Ubuntu) to do some Ruby and Ruby on Rails programming the last few weeks. I was using the RadRails plugin for Eclipse but for some reason my computer slows down considerably when using Eclipse. The thing is, gEdit comes with a couple of nice color themes by default but the darker Oblivion theme wasn’t quite to my liking. So I a quick Google search later and I found a repository on GitHub that contains several nice gEdit color themes. I’ve currently settled on the DarkMate them (see screenshot below). Continue reading
Internet Privacy, It's a PUBLIC Internet Folks
If you are going to use the internet, you have to accept some breakdown in privacy. There is no such thing as a “PRIVATE INTERNET”. My approach to internet privacy is this: “Don’t do anything you wouldn’t want seen by the public at large” – that’s it, no more or less. If I don’t want the public knowing about it or fear that it might eventually see the light of day, well then I just simply don’t do it. Continue reading
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From Andy: Big Health Care Reform Should Start at the Bottom
Greetings, As the Health Care debate around our country rages on, waxing and waning with each poll, I thought it was time to throw in some overlooked or outright discarded ideas. Bringing real access to health care to everyone without … Continue reading
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Internet Privacy, It’s a PUBLIC Internet Folks
If you are going to use the internet, you have to accept some breakdown in privacy. There is no such thing as a “PRIVATE INTERNET”. My approach to internet privacy is this: “Don’t do anything you wouldn’t want seen by the public at large” – that’s it, no more or less. If I don’t want the public knowing about it or fear that it might eventually see the light of day, well then I just simply don’t do it. Continue reading →