Monthly Archives: August 2007
Photos from Kenya
My friend Aaron got back from Kenya recently and put up a set of his Kenya photos on flickr. They are really good – he’s a man of many talents. And, I understand, still available for hire through some quirk of fate.
I also recommend viewing it as a slideshow.
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Thank you, South Carolina
Via Boing Boing, and my home state.
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Content-Aware Image Resizing
Fascinating stuff – they manage to find a way to eliminate the least important, least noticeable pixels in a path from one edge of a picture to another.
via the always excellent alex barnett.
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This week in review
At work, we have a full build process working now, thanks to Jiho the new guy and the msbuild task in nant. If you are trying to get vsto to work under nant, that seems to be the only way. We’re into some of our final testing now, it’s very exciting.
My sister’s sweetie [...]
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Um, Party.
Come see O’Death with me over at Katie’s place.
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The shotgun approach to recruiting is counterproductive
> Hi Matthew,
>
> I'm very impressed with your rating/experience.
> At the current time, I have a few clients that are looking for experienced
> Ruby Rails developers (both contract & permanent) like yourself. There
> is
> lots of room for creativity and growth at these places.
>
> So, my contacts are below if you're still looking. Also, if [...]
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First Spam!
When you have your own domain, you can set up mailboxes on it. Since I own MoreLightMoreLight, I’ve been using it to track spam sources and have been lucky to not get any spam until today. Any time I can avoid giving someone my email address for a signup, I do. [...]
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Week in review
Oh, the things I’ve done.
Found the excellent Website Baker – a simple content management system. Probably what we will use for Gina Mauro’s new site. I’ll be meeting with Gina on Saturday to help her buy a domain and get started.
Wrote an article on how to generate your resume in multiple formats with [...]
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More on the awesomeness of VIM
Nate wrote a bit on it. And then I watched this google video presentation by the VIM Guy himself, Brad Moolenaar.
I hadn’t known this, but CTRL-N is great. As soon as you are typing something you’ve typed once before, CTRL-N to the rescue. It autocompletes anything!
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Microsoft to buy Parlano and Mindalign