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Vacation Starts

Apr 232008

Mary, Lucas and I just started a short vacation to the US Virgin Islands for my brother-in-law’s wedding.
This was Lucas’s first time on an airplane, and he did great.
I will blog more pics once we get there depending on the internet access.
Miami airport has no free Wi-Fi (wtf), so I am using the data connection on my crackberry.

Mary and I on Plane:
(That lady behind us wore a cool mask through the whole flight. She probably didn’t want to get any baby germs on her.)
MAry and Daniel

Lucas at the airport:
Lucas

Vacation is awesome

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Apr 222008

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Originally uploaded by djjhouse

I’m sharing this because it makes me think of the vacation I am about to take.

Ruby and Rails Float Python's Boat

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Mar 042008

Antonio over at antoniocangiano.com has a great article about the effect the rise of Rails and Ruby has had on Python.

I totally agree with him regarding the meteoric rise in popularity of Rails buoying scripting languages such as python. I believe more and more businesses are choosing, or are open enough, to implement Rails and Django solutions for their webapps. On top of other MVC frameworks, both Django and Rails allow for fast and sometimes cheap development (the non-cheap comes in if you have to hire an over-priced rails consultant). The visibility is definitely changing the way businesses view scripting languages and allow them to be seen as a viable alternative to Java and other enterprise adopted technologies.

I have had a man-crush on python for quit some time, and try to spout off about it’s benefits whenever I can.
I have been so close to starting a series of blog posts surrounding Python and the ease of adoption for the non-programmer. As soon as I have more time…

Virtual Barber Shop - awesome audio demo

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Feb 222008

This is almost too cool to describe. Put on some headphones for the full experience. The concept is really simple, but turns out some really cool results.

Definition of the word "Irony"

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Feb 212008

Large Flash (frontal view), ComicCon 2007, San Diego, CA.jpg

Originally uploaded by gruntzooki

A picture is worth a thousand words. A thousand sad, sad words.

Fastest Blog in the World

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Feb 192008

That’s right. This is now the fastest blog in the entire world. Maybe…

Regardless, this is the new and improved techniQal support . I have finally made the giant leap from hosting my blog on an old webserver in the guest bedroom, which was served by my residential dsl, to an actual external VPS host.

After months of looking, and deciding what I really wanted out of a host, I decided on Linode .

The price point for what you get is really pretty good, and I get to have the flexibility of having my own server, with the performance that I can’t get by having my own server(at home).

Thus far, everything about their product is easy to use, and you can even choose to be part of their Xen beta when signing up.

So if you are looking for flexibility for your hosting, I highly recommend them.

ps.

checkout the list of distro’s they support out of the box:

Arch Linux
Centos 5.0
Debian 4.0
Fedora Core 8
Gentoo 2007.0
OpenSUSE 10.3
Slackware 12.0
Ubuntu 7.10
CentOS 4.0 (RHEL)
Fedora Core 6
Mandrake 9.1
Slackware 10
Ubuntu 6.06
Ubuntu 7.04