http://www.murphybytes.com Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:23:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was thinking about how I've changed the way that I use the internet over the years and how over time I've gotten a lot better at using the net for what I need. Through informal interaction with other technical people and on my own I've been exposed to ... http://www.murphybytes.com/2009/11/06/learning-to-use-the-internet/ I got an e-mail from a recruiter looking for a Software Engineer.  The recruiter was looking for someone with open source software experience, multiple language experience etc etc and someone who has an active blog.  I'm not really interested in the position the recruiter was seeking to fill but the ... http://www.murphybytes.com/2009/10/20/another-infrequent-blog-post/ I'm divorced. Here's to the end of something old and the start of something new. http://www.murphybytes.com/2009/06/08/its-official/ I hate them. I am especially annoyed when a library that exposes some sort of API requires it's own configuration file. So, not only do you have a configuration file for your application, you also have to have another for this stupid library you integrated into your application. ... http://www.murphybytes.com/2009/03/24/configuration-files/ i'm hanging out at lisa's house, noodling around with this some stuff i'm working on with some of my friends  it's cool and it's got me excited about doing tech stuff again using lighttpd ruby memcached sqllite and a bunch of other cool stuff anyway i'm setting up a development ... http://www.murphybytes.com/2009/03/15/i-hate-the-internet/ In the Midwest this occurs at about 5:31 PM Friday, February 13! Coincidence? I don't think so. If you are on Facebook there is an event dedicated to this auspicious occasion. http://www.murphybytes.com/2009/02/10/unix-epoch-time-being-1234567890/ Defensive Programming is usually thought of as a software quality technique but I have another use for the term. Defensive Programming happens when you are dealing with two or more modules of code that interact with one another in some way and the modules are written by different developers. ... http://www.murphybytes.com/2009/02/10/defensive-programming/ I work for a big corporation.  Well I don't know if its really big when compared to other corporations but its much bigger than the little company that I used to work for that was bought by the corporation that I now work for.   Be that as it may in ... http://www.murphybytes.com/2009/02/10/corporations/ What to say. I'm going on the infamous Bike Ride to Rippey aka BRR on February 7 with my girlfriend. Other than that bit of insanity I've been doing a lot of software optimization at work, ice skating, running, playing guitar and not blogging. I really wish ... http://www.murphybytes.com/2009/01/21/obligatory-i-havent-posted-in-over-a-month-blog-post/ I got a nice long weekend in NYC for my birthday. We went to August: Osage County, MoMA, went to the top of the Empire State Building at midnight and walked around looking at Christmas lights. Here's a bunch of pictures from the trip. New York is ... http://www.murphybytes.com/2008/12/16/happy-birthday-to-me/