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It’s that time of year

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Crontabs around the world started saluting me about 22:00 local time.

It's that time of the year

Another solar cycle in the books.

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Written by Ry Jones

25 May 2013 at 0:46

Posted in Life

VPN

After months of having the hardware sitting around, I finally set up a VPN server; now I can VPN from my iPad or phone while on insecure networks. Woot!

Written by Ry Jones

15 May 2013 at 20:44

Posted in Hobbies

Dammit, Microsoft

You have to log on to refresh your developer license once a month. This means no more fire-and-forget build servers.

You also can’t run unit tests outside an interactive session, so no unit tests with every checkin.

I still assert Windows 8 is the beginning of the end for the home team. The new tools are as anti-developer as can be, short of having Eclipse corrupt your project randomly.

Written by Ry Jones

15 May 2013 at 13:26

Posted in Microsoft

Creaming method

I’ve heard, a couple times, that professional recipes are a list of ingredients, an instruction of “creaming method“, and a time and temp to cook.

This means you combine the dry stuff, combine the wet stuff, cream them together, and cook it.

You don’t cook the dry stuff for however long you want then mix in the wet stuff.

Dammit.

Written by Ry Jones

14 May 2013 at 20:11

Posted in Hobbies

Reinvent copy reading

First:

You will be our second hire, and will be treated like a co-founder.

Second:

If you are our first hire then email us

Idiots.

Written by Ry Jones

14 May 2013 at 20:09

Posted in Work

Talk to me about ELVIS

Working in NSPG at Sun was a great joy. Scott stuck Sun’s finger in the eye of ITAR for a while; in the end, we gave up.

Written by Ry Jones

10 May 2013 at 12:00

Posted in RKBA, Tech

Amen

Written by Ry Jones

2 May 2013 at 9:38

Posted in Life

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