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Why do I need a public journal, again?

This blog is going offline. It has served its purpose and I'm moving on.

Hanging up my keyboard

Some days I had believed I'd seen the worst atrocities that have ever existed in code. Other days I'd be proven wrong, when something much worse showed up. I found both joy and nausea in the same moment.

CSULB Spring 2010: Registration Calendar

Happy Festivus! Just as I did last semester, I've parsed CSULB's Spring 2010 registration calendar, imported it into a Google Calendar, and am sharing it with you. Hope it helps

Erlang Ring Benchmark

I finally got around to tackling Joe Armstrong's Ring Benchmark challenge. In my tests, it outperforms every other erlang ring benchmark from the first few pages of google results. There is one benchmark I found that ran about 1500x faster than mine, but it exits after doing absolutely nothing. I'm not counting that one =)

Accepting the unexpected and unwanted

tl;dr: everything you experience is your choice because your perceptions are entirely your choice. My job is not what it was made out to be, and I struggled with that to an unhealthy end. I'm learning to accept the situation, and leave work a happier, healthier guy.

CSULB Registration Deadlines: Google Calendar

Finding the registration deadlines took minutes, both times I've tried to do it. Seems to be a common problem, so here's my solution.

Projects, Pedagogy, and Priorities

A lot has started since I posted last, and it's past time I update the blogosphere on what's what. A new job has gotten my hopes for awesome architecture too far up to be healthy. A formal education is crawling back into my long-term goal set. A new project has plagued my thoughts without end! It's chaos and drama at their finest here in the land of asthmatic doves.

JavaServer Pages - Hans Bergsten

From my Amazon review of an amazing book on a crappy technology.

Luck in Love

So much is irrelevant if you stop to think about your life.

The Quest for Zero Login, Part 1

Logins are annoying. We live in a time where a single button click determines some websites' entire monetary worth (CTR). It's a pain to make users jump through hoops, requiring this terribly awkward signup, validate email, and finally login process. I just don't want to make people do it anymore.

A Hidden Gem in FormEncode, and a Plate Full of Beef

While learning Pylons, I found myself digging into the documentation of a few different tools that come packaged with it. FormEncode has so far been the most intriguing. I ended up digging into the code, and found a hidden gem. I've also got a few improvement ideas to toss around, in the form of oh-so-tender beef.

Quick Scripts: How To Fill out PDF Forms on Linux

I'm applying to go back to school to get another degree, and I found myself needing to fill out a lot of PDF Forms. That's evidently a difficult task on Linux. I couldn't find any simple ways to do it, anyhow. So my options were either A) print out the forms and submit my chicken scratch handwriting, or B) hack together a solution for myself. Enter GhostScript and Inkscape.

InComeAgain?

For all you working-class heroes out there: a tool to quickly calculate an annual income and play with the numbers. Written entirely in jQuery, and as always, free for the taking.

Linux Config Goodies

bash aliases, SciTE user configuration, more++

CakePHP goodies

A selection of CakePHP goodies I've written over the past few months. Components, Behaviors, Controllers, and a bit more.