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  • Late Nights, Awesome Sites

    So I've already broken my New Years resolution to post every day. I think I'm going to amend it to posting as often as possible.Monday was an interesting day. At work today we're about to launch a site we've been working on since Friday afternoon. Mo...

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  • Jeep For Sale!

    So after being out for most of the weekend, I come back home tonight expecting to have missed a few calls about the Jeep. Last night I re-listed it for $8000 on Craigslist and BuySell.ca. Well, no calls. But I did get a few emails. Thirteen, all told...

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  • Whoops

    There are two things I found out today. Posting late at night is a bad thing, because my last post was supposed to be dated the 8th, not the 9th. The other thing I found out is that doing more than just some simple testing when rolling out a new feat...

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  • Building A Build Server

    As part of a new programming doctrine at work, we're setting up a few tools to help us work smarter, not harder. We're setting up a bug tracking system using Mantis, and we've got a wiki setup on Google Pages. Using PHPUnit we're going to be doing un...

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  • Gah Tired

    Got about an hour or so of sleep last night, so this post is going to be mercifully short. I just got home, so now I'm off to bed.I like the way this guy thinks. Sounds like a good New Years resolution to me, what do you think?Okay, sleep, before I f...

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  • Ship It!

    Been flipping through a copy of the Pragmatic Programmer book called Ship It! today. It's a book about some best practices for companies that do software development. Currently my work has some, but not all of those practices in place. We're currentl...

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  • Sleep Is Important

    Today I learned the importance of not letting sleep get the best of me over the holidays. I have a bad habit of staying up far too late, even during the weeks when I work. Staying up till 2am is not unheard of if I get really into a coding session. H...

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  • Back To The Grind

    My sister left earlier today to head back to Montreal, where she's going to school at McGill. In a bit I'm heading off to a little farewell thing for a buddy of mine in the Canadian Armed Forces. My sleep schedule is messed up beyond belief ( I woke ...

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  • Book Buying WTF

    Okay, so it's no secret that I'm a big fan of science fiction. What you may not know, however, is that I am a huge fan of Peter F. Hamilton. This is due to two of his books, Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained, together known as The Commonwealth Saga....

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  • Lost

    I picked up the fourth season of Lost a few days back at Best Buy, and started watching it last night. Holy hell has this show gotten good.I don't know if it's because of the announcement that the show would only last for seven seasons, or because of...

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