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On This Day...

• 2011: Negative optimization — Checking on one of my projects (a Ruby on Rails survey site), I realized that it was running painfully slowly, [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: Week ending June 7, 2010 — What a week! W- and I spent the entire weekend woodworking. I’m tired, happy, and looking forward to the next [...]
• 2009: Preventive maintenance and the Goldtouch Go! keyboard — Other people might go to a massage therapist to relax. I go so that I can spend an hour and [...]
• 2008: Emacs Gnus: Filter Spam — (draft for an upcoming book called Wicked Cool Emacs) Ah, spam, the bane of our Internet lives. There is no completely reliable [...]
• 2005: Adding an arbitrary extension to your planner files — Do you want all of your planner files to have a TXT extension so that they’ll be searched by tools such [...]
• 2005: Software Freedom Day — 1. Why Sept. 10? What’s the significance of that date? Hehe… well, that wss the day that Open Minds (now the [...]
• 2003: Extreme programming in the classroom — - http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~cdaly/research/confs/02/sigcse.html (very useful) - http://ecommerce.ncsu.edu/people/williams.html - http://csis.pace.edu/~bergin/XPWorkshop/tutorial.html Thanks to Dominique Cimafranca for the heads-up! =)
• 2003: Found an apartment! — I’ll be staying at Dormitoryana on B. Gonzales St. – it’s a girls’ dorm, pretty nice, lots of greenery, and quite [...]