Lost in Colonisation

Build there, check status everywhere

nobody@vox.com(Alex) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:51:02 -0400

I've been using the iPhone SDK since its original release way back in March. Many frustrating moment in the beginning but the recent beta 7 and beta 8 release proved to be ready for prime time. Apple has added many helper classes or helper methods...

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PowerShell rescues wedding photos

nobody@vox.com(Alex) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:54:31 -0400

One of my friend reached out to me last week for help. The photographer she hired for her wedding had gone bankrupted. Since she has not gotten the album now she can't even get her wedding photos in either prints or digital form. All she has acces...

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Tech book on Kindle

nobody@vox.com(Alex) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:51:03 -0400

I met Brian Donahue at ALT.NET in Seattle a couple of months back, and earlier this evening he tweeted that he was curious how well code in PDF would display on the Kindle. So I replied and told him I'll try it out and show him the result. The p...

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Ecto is no more (for me)

nobody@vox.com(Alex) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:47:33 -0400

Adriaan and I have decided to part ways. We started this great partnership nearly 4 years ago under very different circumstances than what we find ourselves in today. Since joining ThoughtWorks last August, my level of commitment as a developer ha...

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What do you do?

nobody@vox.com(Alex) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:10:26 -0500

I don't often met new people and thus question of what I do does not pop up this frequently. But it has been hard to describe what I do to people who are not in the software development community since the first day I started my first job. Normall...

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Ruby is Canadian?

nobody@vox.com(Alex) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:13:01 -0500

One great thing about working with ThoughtWorks is the diverse opinions on software development subjects. Especially since most TWers are way clever than me, it means I learn a lot just from being a spectator on the sideline while they fight it a...

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How do I know?: Descartes' Rationalism versus Hume's Empiricism

nobody@vox.com(Alex) — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:38:28 -0500

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Vox Hunt: I'd Rather Be...

nobody@vox.com(Alex) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:13:40 -0500

Now, show us your dream job. Fortunate for me, I'm already in my dream job with ThoughtWorks. Which software company (or any company for that matter) allows their employees to: work with the latest ideas and tools? choose the computer plat...

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Hambo

nobody@vox.com(Alex) — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:20:38 -0500

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Movember

nobody@vox.com(Alex) — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:02:29 -0500

A few ThoughtWorkers decided to participate in Movember and one of them, Toni, is in our team. He has been growing his mustache for last three weeks, so this afternoon we decided to greet him with mustaches on all of our faces (including Baxter an...

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