Posts Tagged ‘ Computing ’

Talks I am willing to give

The following are possible talks I am willing to give at a future SCOSUG meeting. Emacs concurrency (or lack thereof) XSLT for fun and profit Programming with distributed objects in Ruby Unit testing JavaScript That is all[ READ MORE ]

The trouble with USE

Today, I was caught a little off-guard by a question regarding the USE directive in SQL. While, it stumped me, it did give me pause to think. First and foremost, it occurred to me that part of the reason that I was caught off-guard was because, in the past, I’ve been advised to stay away [ READ MORE ]

Can I get a little MapReduce from my Debian people?

Debian is a world-class Linux distribution. It is used on it’s own for so many applications (desktop, laptop, workstation, handeld, server, etc.) as well as the foundation for so many wonderful projects ((U|K|X)buntu, Maemo, etc.). Personally, I run Debian on my laptop as well as my servers.  In fact, when I went to see about [ READ MORE ]

Languages, platforms, paradigms and speed

Ever since the latest round of Ruby benchmarks came out and everyone got all excited, I got to thinking about the overall discussion about languages and the interpreted vs. compiled debate. To be fair, there will always be those who take a specific side for some small-but-important-to-them reason yet this has not stopped so many [ READ MORE ]

A good Debian package caching system

I’ve got several servers on my network and I’m ok with that. Honestly, I am. The problem I run in to is that I end up wasting bandwidth by keeping them all up to date. In the past, I’ve tried apt-proxy (not the only one who’s had problems) and, most recently, debtorrent but they inevitably [ READ MORE ]

CrunchPad on the way!

For those who were naysayers and those of little faith, Arrington and the TechCrunch crowd have taken another step toward making good on their word. The CrunchPad tablet is in the final stages of testing and development.  To be honest, it looks really good. To be even more honest, it looks almost too good to [ READ MORE ]

Could Qt be coming to my Nokia tablet?

I really do like my Nokia, but I don’t particularly like how the UI is based off of Gtk+. My dislike has turned to cautious happiness after reading an Ars Technica article about a possible new version of Maemo, the custom Linux OS which runs on the Nokia N-series tablets. Maemo 5 could very well [ READ MORE ]

Back from the Saligman Israel Trip

Just got back today from two weeks in Israel with the 8th grade from Saligman. Such a great trip and I’m struggling to get the last of the photos online but, in the meantime, here is a little something. On the flight back, I casually asked the El Al flight attendant on our Boeing 777 [ READ MORE ]

Server breakage and rebirth

Now that I’ve caught up on the work I missed yesterday, now seems like a good time to write about the massively bad server blowout I had yesterday. Since my laptop’s upgrade from Debian Lenny to Squeeze went so well, I got a little cavalier and was sloppy when doing a dist-upgrade on a server [ READ MORE ]

New startup page

After having Slashdot as my browser’s startup page for over 8 years now, I am switching to having Google Reader now displayed by default. I do this primarily because I am very annoyed by the changes Slashdot has made recently as it seems to be attempting to make itself more “Web 2.0″. When I hit [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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