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Headed to Austin for RailsConf 2012

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:32:27 -0800

I will be attending RailsConf this year, along with some of my fellow rocketeers.

RailsConf and BohConf were a great time last year, and I was glad to visit my hometown of Baltimore, MD.

Last year's highlights:

Baltimore!
Much free food, beer, good conversations at BohConf
Drinking with @ryanbigg
Eating at Fogo de Chao
Mugshots by @j3 (thanks!)
Shenanigans
Real Maryland crab feast with friends
Walking the Inner Harbor in the pouring rain
@p_elliott's many interviews with some great Rubyists

I've never been to Austin, nor Texas in general, so I'm very excited to go this time.

If you see me there, say hello and I'll give you some Hashrocket stickers!

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Records and an old liquer bottle

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:50:00 -0800

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Found myself in a St. Augustine antique shop with Ashley, and actually came away with some neat stuff.

Along with some old-ish (70s and 80s) records, I found a great pre-screwtop Cointreau bottle. I haven't determined the age of the bottle yet, but I'll update when I do.

The records:

* Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II
* Animal House soundtrack
* Eddie Murphy (comedy and music)
* Genesis - Invisible Touch
* Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
* Billy Joel - Glass Houses

I'm particularly excited about Some Great Reward and Billy Joel's Greatest Hits!

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Too many books to read, so little time.

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:01:00 -0800

What with the Cyber Monday deals the other day, I snagged a bunch of ebooks from O'Reilly:

This should give me plenty to read over the upcoming holidays. I've already started in on the books on Sinatra and Erlang web services--so far so good! Reviews forthcoming once I'm finished.

Think Stats was an unusual choice for me, but I thought it an opportunity to learn more about Python and statistics. It's intended as an introduction to probability and statistics for Python programmers, using short exercises to illustrate those concepts. Not the way I learned stats in college.

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Untitled

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 06:47:22 -0700

Starting off my first morning at the Chicago office with a latte, with a Hashrocket in the foam. Nice!

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Hello, Posterous!

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:48:14 -0700

I'm migrating my blog here from its previous home on Github Pages, powered by Jekyll. It was a good run, and I especially enjoyed using Git/GitHub, Markdown and Vim to do my bloggin'. I've decided to move on for the time being.

Posterous has some great features (not much beyond what I need), and it's a solid platform. I also feel that the convenience and mixed-media blogging aspects of Posterous will encourage me to update more frequently.

Hope you enjoy it. For now, here's an otter getting excited about using Posterous:

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Joining Hashrocket

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:00:00 -0700

I'm excited to say that I recently joined Hashrocket as an apprentice. They're taking me under their wing and showing me the Hashrocket Way to write web applications with Ruby on Rails.

Over the coming months, I should be posting here to share what I'm learning and the goods times that are had along the way.

I'm very pleased to spend time with some of the best Rails developers in the world, and soak up as much as I can by pair programming with them! Thanks to everyone at Hashrocket, in Jacksonville and elsewhere, for making me feel welcome and like a part of the family.

For more information about the program or to become a Hashrocket Apprentice yourself, head to Hashrocket Jobs - Apprentice.

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