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New Job at SWIX!

So I have left the public service and am now working for a small startup called SWIX. I just started this week but it has been a great experience so far both the Scott Lake and Craig Fitzpatrick have been amazing since I started(plus they are fun guys to work with). Its a really interesting [...]

On Vacation – Two More Weeks Until New Posts

So I haven’t blogged in over a week now(and I was doing so good at being consistent!), I have been back in Newfoundland for Matthew and Krista’s Wedding. The wedding went well and was beautiful so congrats to the newly married couple!
Now for the second half of mine and Nicole’s vacation we are leaving [...]

Backup, or Things to not do like me.

So I have been looking around for some old code I have written to criticize(or post on github) and it led me to go looking around this blog for code I had written since I started writing this. The first thing I realized is that I am terrible at backup, I actually have non of [...]

pywol: Python Wake on Lan

I was looking for a reason to try GitHub out so I decided to release a module for doing Wake on Lan in Python.
It was actually the subject of my Code WTF post , so I thought I would jazz it up and put it up on GitHUB as well as commit the new version [...]

Blog Migration

When I started the latest iteration of this blog, I forgot I had backups for my blog so I couldn’t take the SQL export and import it directly to this blog or I would break everything.
Today however, I decided I would put in the bit of effort to get all the old blog posts [...]

Why is the Jython Website so ugly?

I know this might be a shocker, but I love python! Don’t get me wrong, I don’t discriminate against languages. I will use whatever language I feel is best for the job at hand, I have been known to use Java, C, C++, C#, Bash scripting, python and even VB.NET(..shhh don’t tell anyone). Programming [...]

Things I Like: Readability (by Arc90)

I thought I would take a little time out from time to time to highlight software and other things hanging around the internet I like. Today I would like to mention a wonderful bookmarklet by Arc90 called Readability.
From the site:

Reading anything on the Internet has become a full-on nightmare. As media outlets attempt to eke [...]

Project Code Rush

I don’t think I can explain what code rush is better than it does on the website so:

Code Rush aired nationally on PBS in March 2000. It documents the Mozilla team as they struggle to publish the first open source release of the Netscape Browser. The film follows key players at a critical stage of [...]

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So I just switched the RSS feed for this website over to FeedBurner. If you were subscribed to this site or if you want to subscribe(you know you want to), please either click the subscribe link or click here .

So many projects so little time.

One thing I have come to discover is that lately I have a lot of opportunities to do many projects, but I have so little extra time. This is kind of odd to me because time was something I thought I would have in abundance now that I am finished school, this is of the [...]