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Ninja pain
This is how the PianoNinja is feeling tonight after suffering a difficult blow: We had a little setback involving lost code. Ironically, this happened when I was trying to set up version control to...
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Some updates
Short blog post, in bullet points: I’m attending SXSW Interactive very soon. PianoNinja was accepted as a semi-finalist in the ScreenBurn Game Design Competition! If my presentation is selected as a...
View ArticleHow to generate GUIDs in XSLT 2.0, using Saxon.NET
I have a project where I need to generate file names that are GUIDs. I’m using Saxon.NET. With the help of Google, I figured out how to do that, but it wasn’t immediately obvious. Hopefully this post...
View ArticleRunning and hosting MarkLogic for free
Over the past year, I’ve done some consulting for MarkLogic Corporation, including some development using their flagship product, MarkLogic Server. I created the back-end content management system for...
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Joomla as a spiritual practice
I need to make a confession. I have a very low tolerance for badly designed user interfaces and overly complicated mis-uses of technology. We are using Joomla for The Trillium School website, and all I...
View ArticleBack in the blogging saddle
I’ve got lots of ideas swirling in my head about what to blog about here. Mostly they have to do with what I’m currently learning about, particularly as it relates to technology. One idea I have is to...
View ArticleBasic, handy rpm commands
Even though I’m comfortable on the command line (and regularly use Cygwin on Windows, and Terminal on the Mac), I haven’t used Red Hat Linux (or CentOS) since probably 2003, and so I’m not very...
View ArticleTest post from OneNote
This is a test post from OneNote. Let’s see how the various things look. Here’s an outline, including some checkbox TODOs Indent level 1 unchecked Indent level 2 Here’s a table with three rows...
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This blog is going to get a lot worse…
…before it gets better. That’s because I am casting my perfectionist tendencies to the wind and will be trying out lots of different things. Quite reasonable questions pop up in my mind such as “Why...
View ArticleWhat I’m doing & reading
I thought I’d post a few updates about what I’m doing these days. My consulting business continues to be doing well, and I’m about to start a new project for a large software company, which will...
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