Reflections on my sixth blogaversary
Today marks my sixth year of blogging. I’ve been doing this longer than I’ve worked at any single job, and in the fast moving technology business, six years seems like a long time to be doing anything....
View ArticleNorthwest Python Day
We’re having a Python day here in the Pacific Northwest: The Northwest Python Day will take place Saturday 31 January 2008, 9am-5pm, in the Gates Commons (6th floor) of the Paul G Allen Center for...
View ArticleGrowlified Tweet is working again
I’ve updated the Growlified Tweet script to deal with some changes in the Twitter API. Enjoy!
View ArticleSun’s Loss, Your Gain?
Today was a particularly black day – a number of large technology companies had layoffs today. Sun was no exception, kicking off layoffs that were promised back in November. As a result some very...
View ArticleLinkedIn tips for job seekers
After this past week, a lot of people are looking for work. LinkedIn is a hugely valuable tool when you are in this situation. You need a good profile When I did my job search about a year ago, I...
View Articledtrace -G on Mac OS 10.5 or dtrace for Python
Let’s suppose that you were trying to port dtrace probes from (Open)Solaris to Mac OS X, and the makefile for the probes on (Open)Solaris calls for the -G option, which isn’t recognized by dtrace in...
View ArticleSun Folks on the loose: David Van Couvering
David Van Couvering is another Sun person who is looking for a new adventure after last week’s layoffs. I first met David at ApacheCon, several years before I came to Sun. At the time he was working on...
View ArticleSun Folks on the loose: Sara Dornsife
Crack marketing person Sara Dornsife is looking for a new position. But I bet she won’t be. I’ve known Sara for several years. I think that we first met at an ApacheCon, but we kept running into each...
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