I am close to tech, very close, and sometimes in my field we do things for the enjoyment of technology. Sometimes we do things to see if it can be done, how cool it is when it is done, and what we had to do in order to get it done. However, sometimes we [...]
SHOCM
Open Source, Cloud, Scotch, Baseball, Family, and Programming since the 1900's
Author Archives: Shocm
Gina Trapani (@ginatrapani) and Me (@shocm)
I got the pleasure to meet a person in my industry who I have the utmost admiration and respect for. Gina Trapani is a Open Source developer, author, host on TWIG, founder of Lifehacker, and a prolific blogger. It was a real honor. Posted via email from shocm
Not sure who this guy is or what he is selling but I like his message :-)
Honk if you love the cloud…. Posted via email from shocm
Geometry – The Batman equation.
via math.stackexchange.com Came across this on Stack Exchange. Just fun geek stuff. Posted via email from shocm
I’m really starting to see a pattern to my internet browsing habits.
This is such a typical browser tab configuration on my browser. I really do find myself using more and more of Googles services more and more often. Posted via email from shocm
I like how Google identifies it’s export feature “Data liberation”
One of the reason I enjoy using Googles Services, they typical seem to go above and beyond to make sure you always own your data. Posted via email from shocm
Getting some functionality back in the system tray on Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 11.04 introduced a new, cleaner user interface called Unity. I’m not a huge desktop GUI guy, doing a large majority of my work in the command line, but I do like to try and stay current on the latest greatest interfaces. I’m not overwhelmed with Unity. It’s OK but not really earth shattering. You [...]
Why the Open Source Development Model Works
I’ve stumbled across this video several time, most recently on a blog post of an extremely talented developer and someone I’ve had the pleasure of working with. If you’re not a developer it can be kind of hard to wrap your head around what is being outline but if you stop thinking of what is [...]
Reposting a great article I can across for all my PHP buddies out there who want to use Vi for development
The original posting can be found here http://hameedullah.com/howto-setup-vim-ide-for-php-development.html# Enjoy Howto Setup Vim IDE for PHP Development As a PHP developer one has quiet a lot of choices of IDE. Some are graphical will built-in features like debugging, code completion, auto indentation, syntax highlighting, code checking and many more. But those IDEs are very heavy and [...]
Buddy of mine had a custom totem pole carved at his house
He did a time laspe movie of the work which is pretty cool. Asked him to send some stills of the final product, when he does I will post them as well. carving.mp4 Watch on Posterous Posted via email from shocm
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