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Mon Feb 08 22:38:45 PST 2010
At a previous employer we made tensile testing equipment.
Now for tensile testing
a material you cut it into a dogbone shape
and then pull at each end of the dogbone, plotting out the
change in length of the specimen against how much load is on
the specimen. Once you have all that data you can
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Mon Feb 08 07:44:51 PST 2010
Space.com:
The NASA budget request, which actually included a slight budget boost up
to $19 billion, would cut out the Constellation completely, extend the
International Space Station's mission through at least 2020, and set
aside $6 billion over five years to support commercial
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davidbloom
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Sun Feb 07 10:00:20 PST 2010
[projections|american league|twins|mvp]
We have heard rumors of Twins catcher Joe Mauer , the 2009 AL MVP, going to the dance together with the Twins for the next 10 years. Mauer’s 2009 season is one for the record books, leading the American league in Batting Average , On Base Percentage, Slugging, OPS, and runs created.
Did the Mets rush
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Tue Feb 02 15:06:31 PST 2010
http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/
http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/
http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/
http://backend.userland.com/blogChannelModule
http://backend.userland.com/creativeCommonsRssModule
http://base.google.com/ns/1.0
http://base.google.com/ns/1.0
http://conversationsnetwork.org/rssNamespace-1.0/
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Sun Jan 31 11:38:38 PST 2010
I was in California earlier this week, but on Lynne's advice I moved
up my return flight as the threat of snow grew.
The snow began to fall on the cab ride home, leaving me just an hour
or two window to test the generator and refill all the gas tanks.
That was Friday night.
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davidbloom
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Thu Jan 28 05:34:15 PST 2010
[minors]
When will the baseball season get here already? The early days of January go so slow before spring finally gets here.
Keith Law weighs in on his organizational rankings. The Rangers, the Red Sox, and Rays are top 3. Where as, its no surprise the Astros and the Whitesox are in the bottom three, but the Cardinals?
In
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Tue Jan 19 13:01:31 PST 2010
I just checked in a port of mimeparse to Go.
The list of supported languages for mimeparse is now: Erlang, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, and Go.
The Go code size is a little larger than the original Python, 187 lines of code for Go
versus 123 for Python. Now 27 of those added lines are lines
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Wed Jan 13 08:10:35 PST 2010
Mark Pilgrim:
Welcome to "What's Next in HTML," where I'll try to summarize
the major activity in the ongoing standards process in the WHAT Working
Group. Wait... what happened to This Week in HTML5? Hell, what happened to
HTML5? Well, nothing. It took over five years to create, but it's in Last
Call now.
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Tue Jan 12 06:01:41 PST 2010
Six bugs have already been filed
against rst2rfc, so
I'm going to take that as a good sign. The source has been moved
into the repostory and I've created a mailing list for
discussions. If you have patches, please put them up
on codereview.appspot.com
and make sure to inlucude me
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davidbloom
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Tue Jan 12 03:32:26 PST 2010
[rookie of year|interviews|great players of past|hall of fame|cardinals|mlb|hitting|former player|athletics|roy]
I can remember that miracle rookie season of 1988, Mark McGwire hitting home runs at a mammoth pace. Its hard to recall someone coming on the scene and being a slugger like we were witnessing that year. With his Bash Brother counterpart Jose Canseco, these guys were the talk of baseball.
We have heard the Jose
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Mon Jan 11 15:33:23 PST 2010
On Wednesday January 13, 2010 our local Microsoft Developer Evangelist will be presenting
a sneak peak at some of the upcoming Windows Azure content. As we gather to talk about
Azure, I thought it was only proper that we take a moment and say it together. Now,
as much as I know all of my southern friends down here like
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Sun Jan 10 12:50:48 PST 2010
Triangle Game Conference:
Triangle Game Conference is currently accepting submissions to the 2010
Triangle Game Conference (TGC). All submissions must be received no later
than close of business Friday, January 15, 2009.
I've already submitted a proposal, and so has my son
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Sun Jan 10 11:31:54 PST 2010
Because, you know, I don't need to know about
lxml preserving the case of my doctype every single time I run piccolo.
import warnings
from html5lib.constants import DataLossWarning
warnings.simplefilter("ignore", DataLossWarning)
from lxml import etree
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roller
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Tue Jan 05 16:16:46 PST 2010
[ibm|opensocial]
Here's another thing I've been involved with at IBM: the Enterprise OpenSocial white paper which was published just before Christmas 2009.
The paper is a group effort, written by folks from Alfresco, Atlassian, Cisco, Cubetree, Google, IBM, SAP and SocialText. It explains why OpenSocial is relevant and "ready for both
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roller
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Mon Jan 04 15:25:58 PST 2010
[jazz|lotusconnections|ibm|rational|apacheroller]
Here's something I've been closely involved with during my entire IBM career (almost 9 months now): making software development more social by integrating Rational Team Concert and Lotus Connections.
In case you don't know, Team Concert is Rational's "complete agile collaborative development environment" with
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davidbloom
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Sat Jan 02 11:18:35 PST 2010
[free agent signing|around the web|sabermetrics]
Over the Christmas holidays, the N.Y. Mets unwrapped their Bay City Rollers gift. When one looks back at Jason Bay’s resume, you have to like his numbers.
HR: 2nd in AL 36
TOB :13th in AL with 245
TB 15th in AL with 285
OPS: 8th in AL: 921
On the defensive side of the ball, Jason Bay’s defensive number
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davidbloom
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Fri Dec 25 08:58:50 PST 2009
[national league|mets|american league|redsox|pirates]
It has certainly been a curious case, for free agent Jason Bay, in his first time on the free agent market. He had been offered big money by the Red Sox to lock him up with a franchise that is certain to be in the mix for post season play for many years to come. But, it seems for Jason Bay its not about the money.
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roller
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Thu Dec 17 17:04:13 PST 2009
[roller]
Here it is:
Isn't that cool? An actual book on Apache Roller and I did not have to write it. I did review the drafts and it looks good, especially for beginners. It's filled with helpful step-by-step instructions and screenshots. I also submitted a forward, but I don't have a copy of the final book yet so I'm not
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roller
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Mon Dec 14 10:32:02 PST 2009
[jazz|ibm|opensocial|socialsite]
It's been over a month since the Enterprise 2.0 OpenSocial panel and since we were never able to get a group blog post together, I've decided to publish a short summary of what I said about IBM on the panel. I'm paraphrasing myself from memory so this is not exactly what I said but it should be pretty close:
IBM has
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davidbloom
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Wed Nov 18 17:35:15 PST 2009
[rays|american league]
A year after making it to the World Series, the Tampa Bay Rays end up in third place the AL East division with an 84-78 record. The Rays batters scored 754 runs in 2009, a number that was 20 less runs than the previous season. However, the alarming number was the 803 runs given up, as compared to 671 runs given up in
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Sun Nov 15 11:31:57 PST 2009
[pdc]
Next week I’m going to be attending the Microsoft
Professional Developers Conference or PDC. I’m very fortunate to have been
able to attend three PDC’s previously in 2003, 2005, and 2008. These events included
the first looks at Windows Longhorn, Avalon, Aero, Indigo, IE7, Office 12 and “the
ribbon”, first looks
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roller
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Sun Nov 15 07:59:18 PST 2009
[widgets|ibm|opensocial|wookie|socialsite|apacheroller]
(Last week, I returned after a week of vacation and a week of conferences in the SF bay area. Instead of posting my trip reports to the limited audience that reads my internal IBM blog, I'm going to post them here so that everybody can benefit from them.)
Here's my report from ApacheCon US, focusing on the
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roller
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Wed Nov 11 19:52:00 PST 2009
[googlewave|socialmedia|openid|policy|links]
Mine, all mine (& theirs too) [on Simon Phipps, SunMink]"Sun has created a licensing option for every employee that simply shares ownership of everything that's posted equally between Sun and the blogger"
82 Social Media Policies from the book Social Media Governance by Chris Boudreaux
OpenID Pilot Program to be
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roller
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Mon Nov 09 07:49:06 PST 2009
[nosql|ibm|couchdb|hadoop]
(I just returned to work after vacation and a week of conferences in the SF bay area. Instead of posting my trip reports to the limited audience that reads my internal IBM blog, I'm going to post them here so that everybody can benefit from them.)
After arriving at ApacheCon on Monday night and eating way too much
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roller
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Mon Nov 09 07:07:19 PST 2009
[sun|salmon|ibm|opensocial|atompub|foaf|apacheroller]
(I just returned to work after vacation and a week of conferences in the SF bay area. Instead of posting my trip reports to the limited audience that reads my internal IBM blog, I'm going to post them here so that everybody can benefit from them.)
On Monday Nov. 2, I attended Social Web Camp at Sun's Santa Clara
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roller
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Tue Oct 06 05:19:05 PDT 2009
[general]
On Wednesday November fourth I'll be speaking at two conferences on the same day: ApacheCon US in Oakland, CA and Enterprise 2.0 in San Francisco. Here's a write-up of what I will be speaking about.
Enterprise 2.0: Enterprise OpenSocial. This will be a panel discussion with representatives from Atlassian, SocialText,
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davidbloom
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Sat Oct 03 18:40:08 PDT 2009
[padres|indians]
With just a weekend left in the regular season, the teams out of the running have started their planning for next season. Earlier in the week, the Cleveland Indians let manager Eric Wedge know his services would not be needed next season. The Indians had high expectations going into the season, but they turned into
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roller
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Tue Sep 22 18:15:28 PDT 2009
[roller|apachecon|apacheroller]
It's been a while since I have blogged about it, but I haven't completely stopped working on Roller. In case you're wondering what's up in Roller-land, here's an update based on an email I recently sent to the Roller dev mailing list.
I've been doing some weekend and evening work on Roller 5.0 to get it ready for
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Thu Sep 03 14:31:32 PDT 2009
Last weekend I attended and spoke at the Atlanta Silverlight Firestarter. This free,
day long event featured a wide range of content presented by a number of presenters.
The organizers did an awesome job and deserver a big pat on their back for their efforts.
During the afternoon I presented a Design Tools talk,
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Wed Aug 26 19:06:39 PDT 2009
Last weekend I attended and spoke at the Atlanta Silverlight Firestarter. This free,
day long event featured a wide range of content presented by a number of presenters.
The organizers did an awesome job and deserver a big pat on their back for their efforts.
During the afternoon I presented a Design Tools talk,
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davidbloom
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Wed Aug 26 05:01:28 PDT 2009
[web/tech|web design]
GWT quiz question
Be the MVP
GWT wiki
gwtSite – Unofficial GWT Blog
onGWT – Lots of GWT Tutorials and Articles
group
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davidbloom
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Fri Aug 21 21:45:47 PDT 2009
[web/tech|web design]
A basic GWT menu example
gwt 2.0 preview
GXT and eclipse
authentication example
Mr Bloch at Google
GWT future
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davidbloom
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Sat Aug 15 14:26:20 PDT 2009
[web/tech|web design]
This video begins the subject of GWT design choices. The video touches on a few thing like the :
HandlerManager class in GWT 1.6
GwtMocking
MVP and testing the presenter
EventBus
This was found on this post - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1234389/whats-your-recommendation-for-architecting-gwt-applications-mvc-
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Thu Aug 13 21:22:09 PDT 2009
[silverlight]
Along with the launch of Silverlight 3, a number of new controls were introduced in
the Silverlight Toolkit. One control worth taking a look at if you deal with any sort
of data entry forms in your applications is the DataForm.
The quick and dirty demo is to take an object, in this case Photo.cs
public class
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Thu Aug 13 20:21:46 PDT 2009
[silverlight]
Every time I present on Silverlight I make a point to make sure people check
out download and install the Silverlight Toolkit. After installing the developer
tools, this should be your next step?
Why you ask? Controls! Controls! Controls!
In order to ship more frequent updates of controls and not be as closely
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roller
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Wed Aug 12 13:00:04 PDT 2009
[barcamprdu|general|triangle]
BarCampRDU 2009 was a great success, if I don't say so myself. Here's my brief review. We had excellent turn-out, lots of great session pitches and lots of great sessions. Everything went very smoothly and our estimates for meals, t-shirts and party-budget were spot on. We received lots of positive feedback on Twitter
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roller
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Tue Aug 11 18:12:00 PDT 2009
[lotusconnections|googlewave|opensocial|chrome|eclipse|blogging|links]
Your blog still loves you"it's time to use the web again to store our ideas, and instead of relying on Silicon Valley companies to link our stuff together, let's just use the Internet."
ZDNet Asia: 'Ferociously loyal' users to stand by Sun"47,000 enterprise customers and a ferociously loyal customer base"
The
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roller
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Tue Aug 11 17:09:21 PDT 2009
[shindig|opensocial|apachecon|wookie|open source|socialsite]
The early-bird special ends on August 14, so you'd better get moving.
Sign up for ApacheCon US by 14 August and save up to $500!
This year's ApacheCon US promises to deliver our most extensive program to date, and largest anticipated gathering of the global Apache community to celebrate the ASF's milestone 10th
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davidbloom
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Mon Aug 10 16:39:09 PDT 2009
[web/tech|web design]
Noticed there is a Google Technology Group (GTUG) in the Triangle. Their Twitter feed is http://twitter.com/trigtug
Their You Tube Group http://www.youtube.com/user/gtugs
Resources http://sites.google.com/a/gtugs.org/www/resources
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roller
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Mon Aug 10 13:52:47 PDT 2009
[twitter|friendfeed|googlereader|socialnetworking|blogging|facebook|social software]
(Note that I wrote this over weekend, before we all learned about Facebook acquiring FriendFeed. It's hard thinking about how things will change because we have no idea what Facebook will do with FriendFeed, but I'm guessing that this acquisition will end-up making Google Reader a more central part of my flow.)
Every
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roller
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Fri Aug 07 14:47:26 PDT 2009
[general]
As you might know, I'm involved with organizing BarCampRDU again this year, doing the sponsor-wrangling and attendee registration duties. It's been a lot easier and stress-free than last year because I've been through it once before and so has most of the committee. No matter the stress-level, the end-result is well
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davidbloom
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Thu Aug 06 18:42:11 PDT 2009
[uncategorized]
f you look at the National League East, you know the beast of the division in the defending World Champion Philadelphia Phillies. They have so much troubles, they can’t seem to choose among who gets the demotion to the pen when former Met Pedro Martinez joins the team.
Despite the injuries and all the failed
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Tue Aug 04 10:03:47 PDT 2009
I’ll be celebrating my 9th wedding anniversary by giving a Silverlight 3 presentation
to the Triangle .Net User Group in Raleigh NC
on Aug 12th 2009.
“Join us for a walk through many of the powerful new features in Silverlight
3 and see how they can help you be productive writing Rich Internet
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Tue Aug 04 08:31:24 PDT 2009
The date has been selected for the 2009 Raleigh Code Camp. It’s going to take place
this year on Saturday September 19th in Raleigh, NC. The call for
speakers is out, and you can submit your talks at www.codecamp.org for
the event. We’re looking forward to another stellar event!
If you have never attended a Code Camp
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