Category Archives: Personal

New Job, New Blog

The title is a bit misleading, but I haven’t updated my blog in far too long. In April I started working for Urban Airship, and I’ve been meaning to upgrade my blog and move to it to a shorter URL … Continue reading

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Web Developer Contractor Rates

We just happened* to start chatting in the #pdxdjango IRC channel on Freenode about what the rates web developer contractors charge today, and I wanted to post my experiences after leaving the contractor world a few months ago after 2 … Continue reading

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Great article on big government

Havoc Pennington has a great post entitled Which Piece of Big Government Are You Against? War on Terror + DoD ~= 21.6% of our budget. I know we can’t cut it all, but a guy can dream can’t he? My … Continue reading

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Biking to Work

Finally made it up to biking to work 3 times this week! Had only been averaging about once every 2 weeks for the past couple months. Sam & I recently moved to North Portland which is flat. We had been … Continue reading

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Good-bye Lo-Fi Art, Hello YouGov

Next week I’ll be leaving Lo-Fi Art to start working for YouGov Polimetrix (aka PMX). For the past couple of years I’ve been consulting with Chris Pitzer mostly as a Python web developer specializing in Django. It will be sad … Continue reading

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Web Server Shootout Slides

The presentation has been given. The slides are available as HTML or the source OpenOffice.org Impress file. Thanks to everyone who attended, and thanks to the Open Source Bridge organizers for putting on an excellent conference! I have a bzr … Continue reading

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