Rails

I’ve lately started playing with a web framework for Ruby called Rails. It’s not that I’m a huge fan of Ruby. I like Ruby. I learned it about 4 years ago sitting on a beach in Mexico. Ruby is a really cool language full of exciting features but I much prefer the feel of Python. ...

Weekend

This weekend was pretty awesome! On Friday evening we got together at Madison’s with Naomi, Tyson and Suman for dinner. It was all going well until Kailey pulled my nice big full glass of ice water over into my lap. Man was that cold! After dinner Naomi had to head out so Anji went home ...

Complete Waste of Time :)

I was goofing around at lunch today and produced this python script that can take arbitrary binary data and encoded it as pixel data in a PNG file. Here is one of those images: Anyone know what this is?

The Python Challenge

Ok. It’s been years since I’ve really played a game but this morning I came across the Python Challenge which is a puzzle game that requires you to know a fair bit of Python. It’s really well done. The puzzles get progressively harder and are fun and let you use Python (which is also fun). ...

Score

So my server “farm” is going to double in size tonight. I just picked up a P2-350 / 256M / 8G PC from the scrap-yard at work. It’s just a couple steps under my current VM server. I think this will become the new b.vm.bluesine.com. Sweet! Gotta love getting free computers.