tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-276567042011-11-28T10:18:43.677-05:00Everyone else is doing it. Why not me?jay.repkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00293192127136217017noreply@blogger.comBlogger391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656704.post-6207716588238888442011-11-28T10:08:00.000-05:002011-11-28T10:11:30.158-05:00

From the suspension foot bridge. The posting appears to work, but its still a little strange.  

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So I found a draft post that said something to the effect that I was going to start working on re-learning Objective-C.  And that was dated in July 2011...  So I guess I didn't do it.   Maybe I'll give it another go.  I had updated to Xcode 4 which has enough changes in the interface that following tutorials difficult.  Xcode 4 has been out for a while now and iOS 5 is out now so we should be in

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How to you put pictures in this blog anyway? I thought that hood ornaments were a lost art! Silly, right? Well, I'm just testing this. Now that I've tried this, I can help Kate out some more.

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So, our toilet was slowly leeching out water... We decided to replace the wax ring, but unfortunately we discovered on removal of the toilet that the floor flange that the toilet bolts to is so corroded that it had broken. Time to call a plumber......on a much more enjoyable note, I'm planning to start two coding projects. First, I want to make a mobile app. I'll likely start with Android due

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I just started playing with this following thing. I have no idea what it is. Maybe after I have a few margaritas and followed a few more I'll figure it out.

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Watching Kate set up a cake blog. Should be fun!

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Wow! This is still here... And now I can post from my phone... Oh the future.

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So sadly, I've neglected this blog for a long while. In fact, I've waited long enough now that StackOverflow has managed to be around for a whole year. If you haven't been there yet, you should go.I've moved on to using Windows 7 RC and Fedora 11 on my laptop and my work desktop has an installation of CentOS 5.3 and the old and gross Windows XP. I hope that will end eventually.

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I've been using stackoverflow for a while now and I have to say that I really like it. If you are looking for programming answers, its the place to go. Free, what's not to like?

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Getting back to doing this, I've recently just started using stackoverflow. I just received my invite to the beta test today, so I guess I just made it. Jeff Atwood was saying in the podcast that next week might start the actual live public site.I just asked my first question which, after it was answered, I realized was pretty dumb. I had a more complex question, but I need to retest it with

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Well, today we managed to really attend sessions. There were some work things happening that really just prevented us from providing our full attention, but given that the topic of conversation was also the money source for our time, the only real problem I see is the expense of being in Santa Clara. That cost to work is much less than the cost of two days of work. Anyway, that being said,

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I will try to write up a quick blurb about the sessions I attended yesterday tomorrow.I also have more pictures I should post, but I just haven't yet.I "went" to Better Test Design, Native XML Databases, Implementing RESTful Services in Java, and Java Performance Myths.

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The first day of SDWEST, I attended tutorial on security and defensive programming by Jim DelGrosso. I'm not quite sure that I was part of the appropriate audience, but only because most of what he talked about didn't really apply directly to what I do. Since I'm primarily developing Java code for internal applications, I can generally trust the user of the application to not be malicious. It

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I attended Justin Gordon's tutorial on JUnit and Test Driven Development. After sitting through just the first half of the presentation, I definitely see how this could be a useful method to develop. I'm hoping to use it to work on my next work project only because its only me really working on it. I know almost all of the basic requirements already myself because the goal is really to build

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So additionally, I want to mention that I'm planning on trying out using Groovy on the next work project because its main use is to build a library to access our data that is usually in a database, but not quite always. The Groovy tutorial also seemed to lead me in a way to two other topics. First, Test Driven Development... The last lab for Groovy was to use it to test java classes. That

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I attended Andrew Glover's Groovy 101 tutorial and I have to say that I was fairly impressed at some of the stuff that you could do very easily in Groovy. I definitely do not like the name, but that aside I decided to give some Groovy coding a try.Firstly, it is really easy to move into Groovy programming because standard Java is also Groovy. The syntax is legal. Also, the Groovy code compiles

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I've managed to make it to SDWest 08 this year and I've attended 3 tutorial sessions so far. I'll probably post a little more later, but I figured I'd try to get back to this posting thing again.But, more importantly, I haven't been to this area before and I think its fun to drive around and see Sun Microsystems headquarters, or Google, or Yahoo. And the hotel we are staying at is across the

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I tried to make pizza dough today. 1 1/2 cups plus 1 tablespoon of flour, 1 teaspoon of instant active yeast, 1 teaspoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of salt, 8 tablespoons of olive oil, and 2/3 cup of water. I suspect that I did something wrong here, maybe the measurements. It didn't rise very much. Strange though... But, I also bought some pre-made bag dough, and just used that. I'll see what my

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Wow, I'm bad at this.Anyway, I'm still toughing out Vista. I actually like the eye candy, and the IO seems better. I don't like that I can't turn off the windows indexing permanently, but if I just let the machine go for a little while so that it indexes when I'm not watching it, its not too bad.I can't believe how hard the AI is in Supreme Commander sometimes. I just played a 2 human vs 4

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So, after I took the time to debug my issues, it just started working. I don't know what caused it to happen but it works now. I have no idea.

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I got a new laptop at work and it has Vista on it. I decided to give it a go for work. After a month, I'm starting to get really irritated. I'm not going to digress too much here. What I really want to bring up is the networking in Vista. If you run "ipconfig /all" in Vista you get a list of 15 items, but in XP SP2, you only get what makes sense. You get the physical adapters and thats it.

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I think I've decided that first I need to do something with the case that I have now. There are some problems with it anyway. First, the CPU is really hot. Like 72 degrees C hot! Second, its pretty old and was made before there were Pentium 2 processors so it doesn't have the cooling capacity anyway for a hotter processor. Three, it doesn't have proper ports on the back. The last mainboard I

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I've started researching a little to move my current PC into a "new" case. I have an SGI Indy case with a dead Indy in it. I'd like to move my PC into it because I like the look of the case. I know that sounds like sacrilege but the SGI is dead so what else could I do with it anyway. I haven't decided for sure that I want to that yet, but I'm seriously considering it. I have to figure out

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I became curious when I was watching the History Channel this morning. They did a little shpiel about the Love Canal. Of course at the first commercial break I decided to go read the Wikipedia article about it. The first few lines talk about how the Board of Education basically forced Hooker Chemical to sell the land to them. I thought to myself, why would that be? That sounds ridiculous.

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In general things that Ubuntu didn't have down pat, RedHat seemed to manage. The two biggest things were the Common Access Card support, and for me, the ability to actually get SameTime installed. I used RedHat for a while. Its still installed, but I'm not using it right now. The last straw was when the installed version of Eclipse deleted all of my .CVS directories from my source folder. Its

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Ubuntu looked awesome and mostly things worked. But in the months since I pretty much stopped using it, I found that a different distribution is doing more work to help out on the smart card front. I switched to Fedora Core 6. The primary motivation is that my smart card compiled library stopped working everywhere and the new recommendation was to use CoolKey from fedora. I suffered through a

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I've recently resurrected my desire to continue using Ubuntu at work mostly because of the insane security policies that have been enacted. We have actually been pushed to the point of absolutely having to write down our passwords because of the size, the randomness, and frequency of required change. Its truly a pain and no one is acting like they even notice the human side of the problem.

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I recently discovered that the professional development center at ACM contains a Safari library. I realize that I should have known this. Another guy at work pointed it out. Its like my bookshelf now has 20 slots. 10 for normal use and then the ACM one that has 10 more and they are greatest hits. I say this because the ACM Safari is limited to something like 500 of the 1000s of books

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I guess I've been lax about posting here. I don't really have a good reason except that I've been posting about 360.yahoo.com too and I keep thinking that I'll try to keep this blog to more a technical nature, but I'm finding that I don't have much to say in a technical blog right now. I'm working on it. I'm thinking. I'm thinking a lot right now. :)

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Well, I've definitely been way from this a while. I've been toying with 360.yahoo.com as well.I have had a Nike+iPod kit and a refurb iPod nano for about a month now. I really like it and I've figured out a few things. First, you don't need Nike+ shoes to use it, but they help. Second, the sensor needs to be right side up in your shoes when you run, or it will fail to update distance properly

jay.repkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00293192127136217017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656704.post-1155390779733422412006-08-12T09:40:00.000-04:002006-08-12T09:52:59.760-04:00

Well, as it turns out my linux adventure is on hold. I used Ubuntu for a least two whole weeks at work and I've discovered a few things that I don't like. Since I mostly do java development, I really want to use Eclipse. Eclipse on windows is very easy for me. I've been using it for at least a year and half now. I got used to everything that was different from other IDEs and I liked it. On

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Well, there are two things...First, I spent a long time on getting the wireless connection active. The biggest problem seems to be that with WPA enabled and using a Intel Centrino 2200 wireless connection, the default Ubuntu 6.06 installer is a little confused. The card itself works right out of the box and the wireless connection was there, but it wouldn't connect to my network because I had

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Paul and I (well mostly Paul since he's the one who wanted to use it) spent some time on Saturday exploring setting up FreeNAS on an older P2/333 machine so that he could use it as a NAS box. FreeNAS is a FreeBSD distribution that has a minimal interface and OS service set to support just file sharing and configuration of shares. It seems to work pretty well now. We had a couple of concerns

jay.repkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00293192127136217017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656704.post-1147108921482755882006-05-08T13:20:00.000-04:002006-05-08T13:22:01.493-04:00

I put an album of the ocho rios, jamaica part of our honeymoon up so that I could see them from the Tivo. So the Yahoo Photo stuff I like because of Tivo access, but I like flickr because I like its interface better.

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I think I'm going to go with flickr. I started with trying picasa which is how I ended up here. It worked, but not as I expected. So I tried Yahoo photo. You can see some of the photos I posted here.Then I tried flickr, which is apparently owned by Yahoo anyway, and I think I like it. Here are the photos, but you'll have to join, I think to see the photos because I didn't want them publicly

jay.repkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00293192127136217017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656704.post-1146953407972745862006-05-06T18:08:00.000-04:002006-05-06T18:10:07.980-04:00

That's interesting. Maybe I'll give something else a try. I definitely didn't look in to this too far, so maybe I'm just doing something wrong. Whatever.

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We couldn't believe the room that we were staying in, so we tried to get a picture of us in the room. ...And then we went nuts taking pictures. The room was amazing! The hotel prepared a chilled bottle of champagne for us... They turned down the bed and set out robes for us to use... We even had fancy chocolates to eat. 

jay.repkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00293192127136217017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27656704.post-1146952717588477472006-05-06T17:57:00.000-04:002006-05-06T17:58:37.596-04:00

Since the idea here was for me to post some pictures from our honeymoon and our wedding, i'll try giving that a shot.

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Its really deep, isn't it? I just thought of slashdot as I typed it. I really just created this to make it possible to share picasa photos.

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