Gina already posted about our Memorial Day vacation but she didn’t add what we did after that. We came back from Boelus early on Tuesday afternoon because Gina had to work later that day. I had the next day off, and had a list that I was going to do that day — mainly, take [...]
I hate upgrading WordPress. I was reminded of that a week or so ago when I tried to get to WordPress 2.5.1. It’s not WordPress’s fault — it’s my provider.
I’m not going to rant against them, but I will point out that, whenever I try to FTP a lot of files, the FTP stalls [...]
One recent event I haven’t blogged about is that I was recently asked to be ScrumMaster by my manager. That sounds sorta like a title from a D&D game gone horribly wrong, but once you know what it is, it’s not that bad. It may help to know that Scrum is a methodology for developing [...]
Earlier this spring, I noticed a few white grubs in our garden, which was covered all winter with compost. I didn’t think anything about it — I just thought they are supposed to be there. But last night I planted some tomatoes and pepper plants and noticed that these grubs are all over [...]
I recommend you read Ted Neward’s I’m Pro-Choice… Pro Programmer Choice, that is.And I wish I could say, “Alright! I agree!” But I can’t. Because, I hate to say it, we can’t language or OS agnostic. But it’s hard be a generalist in a specialist kind of industry. If you advertise [...]
As Gina said yesterday, I have been studying compost. Quite in depth, I may add. I won’t tell you the results of my findings yet, I will say that what I have found has been both confusing and enlightening.I get confused because people say different things about it — “don’t make your pile [...]
I’ve been using log4j for a long time, but never got into Python’s logging module. But last week I was sitting in a class about logging and my company’s new standard and toolset. The instructor kept giving Python as an example (as well as log4j) of a logging system that worked with our logging repository. [...]
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