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Next meeting – March 11th, 2014
We meet at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Farmington Community Library. Our topics this month include: Kanban Some days developing applications feels like drinking from the fire-hose. New features coming in from design, bugs from users, mounting technical debt, and folks wandering the halls wondering about the status for their particular piece. How do you manage it all? Kanban is a lean process that can overlay over your existing processes and roles. It includes common-sense … Read More »
Busy Busy Bugs Redux
Back in 2007 I participated in PyWeek 4. The results of that contest were a game that I “released” called “Busy Busy Bugs”. The premise is you are a spray can of insecticide trying to keep bugs away from your plants. Every time they attack your flower it “droops” a little more. There’s also a… Read more: Busy Busy Bugs Redux Read More »
The Quantified Self
Chalk this one up to another one of my blinding flashes of the obvious. On a recent episode of Back to Work they mentioned about quantifying yourself. Dan and Merlin talked about how they use the FitBit for tracking both their sleep and movement. I’ve been using mine as a little motivator for keeping myself… Read more: The Quantified Self Read More »
Shitty controls in video games.
I’d love to understand why there’s a certain video-game fad over featuring shitty controls. Flappy Bird: Shitty Controls. QWOP: Shitty Controls. Octodad: Dadliest Catch: Shitty Controls. Perhaps the reason I’m so jaded with playing these games is because I’m old enough to remember the Intellivision, Colecovision, and Atari 5200. Been there. Done that. Even Gallagher… Read more: Shitty controls in video games. Read More »
Completely Amazingly Superb and Above the Call of Duty Customer Service
I’ve wanted to post this for a while. You’ll remember I recently posted about a dreadful customer service experience with Barnes and Noble and an amazing customer service from O’Reilly Media. I was tempted to include this experience in that previous post but thought better of it for various reasons. One of those reasons was… Read more: Completely Amazingly Superb and Above the Call of Duty Customer Service Read More »
Next meeting – February 11th, 2014
We meet at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Farmington Community Library. Our topics this month include: LXC – LinuX Containers It’s safe to say that today’s cloud computing wouldn’t be nearly as prevalent without virtual environments. But virtual machines that emulate hardware (VirtualBox, VMware, QEMU, etc.) can be resource intensive and slow to provision. LXC (LinuX Containers) is an operating system-level virtualization solution that allows for running multiple isolated Linux systems (containers) on a single control host. It allows for flexible … Read More »
A Tale of Two Customer Service Departments
I’m a reasonable guy. I start with this because I like to think that I’m not an unreasonable person. Do right by me and I’ll be satisfied. But make me jump through hoops and I’ll be very disappointed. This is the tale of two completely different customer service experiences. Experience the first Recently I picked… Read more: A Tale of Two Customer Service Departments Read More »
Next meeting – January 14th, 2014
Regular MUG Meeting IPV6 We meet at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Farmington Community Library. It’s a new year and this month we’re diving head-first into IPV6. Mass IPV6 is still on the horizon and more and more servies and devices are supporting IPV6. Jim Small will walk us through the use and deployment of IPv6, and answer common issues, questions, topics about IPV6. We’re dedicating the entire meeting to IPV6 so bring your own questions … Read More »
Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python
Apparently Packt is hell-bent on having me tell you about Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python. So here you go: http://bit.ly/1bD56tX I’m already full up on my review queue but apparently they still want me to review it even though I have little to no interest in the topic. Read More »