January 2012
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Another song for an RPG game I’m working on...
New Blog
Just switched my personal site over to tumblr. My previous site served me well for over two years.
All of my sites before this were completely custom from the ground up, so using a service is new. My last site was getting dated but unfortunately I just didn’t have the time to build a new one. Even in the end, though, I spent more time than I was supposed to customizing this tumblr...
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Professional Summary
This is a summary of my professional history. My linked in profile contains more information. I’ll keep this post updated with the latest info.
Currently a web developer at salesforce.com.
General front-end development using JavaScript, CSS and HTML
Writing and updating Java to support the front-end
JavaScript and CSS performance
Building out an app-wide framework for semantic and...
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Cloud Watchers →
This is a short story I wrote in November of 2005 about a journalist. It’s “supposed” to be set in the not too distant future (hey, 2010 seemed awhile off in 2005.)
The basic idea is that America goes through a pretty bad economic downturn sometime before 2010. During this time there is a man named Damian who creates a society geared towards helping those less fortunate.
This...
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This is a simple song, but it’s one of my...
July 2011
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LG 47LW5600 App Store: Disconnected From Server
I was having issues with my LG47LW5600 TV and it’s app store. After 10 seconds or so of entering the app store, I would get something like “Disconnected from Server. Try again later.” It would then exit the app store.
I was finally able to fix this by going to the toolbox under setup, and clicking on “Initial Setting”. This prety much wiped everything clean and...
March 2011
1 post
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Using Jammit with Capistrano and Bundler
Jammit is an awesome asset packaging library from DocumentCloud that I’ve been playing around with. It all works pretty seamlessly.
For deployment, I’m Capistrano, along with Bundler. In order to get Jammit to generate the asset files on a deploy, I added the following task to my deploy.rb file, inside of namespace :deploy
desc "Generate assets with Jammit"
task :generate_assets,...
December 2010
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From April 2009. This one was lost and forgotten,...
July 2010
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Loading large SQL data files in Rails 3
So what’s the best way to load large sql data sets in rails apps?
I’ve just started learning ruby on rails, and I’m trying to port one of my existing sites to it. Part of the conversion is dumping and importing a rather large set of MySql tables. These tables contain the text for whole books. In some cases, we are talking 30,000+ records.
This made it unfeasible to use the...
March 2010
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Politics
A two party system seems fundamentally flawed. There should be 3 dominant parties, so that no one gets overwhelming control, and no one can prevent progress over the sense of reason.
February 2010
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a desolate way.
the way of travel is not...
January 2010
3 posts
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First new song in a long time. The recording for...
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I recoded this song back in October of ‘07,...
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Electric Guitar
Well, I bought a little all-in-one guitar package. Came with an electric guitar, a few accessories, and even a piddly little amp. I’m taking some lessons from JamPlay as well.
It will be interesting to see how this goes. I’m not even sure what style of music I want to play. I’m trying it out because it seems like such a versatile instrument, and I really love it’s sound....
December 2009
6 posts
New Music
Well from the looks of things one may think new music has become a scarce commodity. On the contrary, there are a ton of half-written songs patiently waiting in my keyboard. I’m looking to record most of them, as well as re-record some existing ones on here. Maybe slightly new website redesign to go along with it!
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February 2009
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AbiWord - WordPerfect Docs on OS X →
I needed to open up some old WordPerfect documents today (.wpd) and the latest version of Word wasn’t cutting it. I came across a program called AbiWord that works though (mostly). On the download page there is a link to the OS X binaries.
November 2008
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Visor - A Convenient Way to Use Terminal →
I came across a cool little app from the makers of quicksilver. It’s called visor, and it allows you to run Terminal by hitting a shortcut key. A new terminal window slides down from the top of the screen ready to take your commands.
You can get it from their main website. Click on the link to Visor on the left menu bar.
October 2008
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This is the first new song after a long while. I...
April 2008
2 posts
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Right now I’m living in Pittsburgh, and...
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The first parts of this song came sometime in...
February 2008
4 posts
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“Reflection” was written a long while...
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This is the first song I ever recorded from my...
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This isn’t a song at all, just some random...
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This is a simple yet relaxing song that came about...
July 2007
1 post
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Born Again - Another Look →
There is something more to being born again than just a change in attitude or a new mindset. If we carefully examine what the Bible has to say about this process, we can see how the idea of the new birth depicts how God gives us victory from sin through Jesus.
I think too many Christians call themselves “born-again” without really realizing what all this entails. Anyone who says they...
June 2007
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Righteousness By Faith and the 1888 General... →
The expected audience of this article is Seventh-Day Adventists, but I believe any Christian can gain value from it.
The 1888 General Conference was an important one in SDA history. The fundamental concepts of this article deal with the principles of faith, the nature of mankind, the nature of Christ, and how we should expect to live before going to heaven.
May 2007
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As of right now, this is my favorite song to play....