Category: tech
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iPhone night in NYC
It's the night a million Mac fans have been waiting for - the launch of the iPhone.
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I'll be at Agile 2007, speaking on Continuous Integration
My conference attendance this year will be a short trip south to Washington DC, to Agile 2007. It's been a while since I've been to a big agile / XP conference and I hear they've grown a bit so I'm interested to see how the community has changed. Indeed, Agile 2007 is already sold out with 2 months to go before it actually takes place.
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Pigs, pokes and Parallels
There's an old saying - Never buy a pig in a poke - which roughly means "don't pay for something unless you've seen it". It was one that came to mind as I forked out for the Parallels pre-release upgrade a week or so ago.
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Flickr (finally) gets a decent slideshow
One of the very few things about Flickr that's not so great is that the slideshow feature is poor at best. With all the fancy usability-enhanced goodness of my photo-website of choice, the slideshow's tiny pictures, no descriptions and just sheer, well 2003-ness is just shockingly bad.
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XTC-NYC #8 @ D.B.A.
D.B.A. was fun 2 weeks ago, so we're going to try it again as an eXtreme Tuesday venue. More details here.
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The NYSE blog
One of the many enjoyable parts to my new job is when I get to meet some of my actual New York Stock Exchange colleagues from our famous office on Broad St (the TransactTools office is a 5 minute walk up Broadway.) The people I've met so far are a good bunch, lacking some of the harshness I've found from some previous organizations. Moreover some of them have huge amounts of experience being here.
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Finetix Acquired!
My ex-employer as of only 6 weeks ago have been bought by Sungard - I didn't see that one coming while I was there!
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Looking for Java developers in NYC!
As I mentioned in my earlier posting, one of my first tasks here at NYSE TransactTools is to hire some great developers. The engineering team right now is 11 people strong, but we're looking to grow that significantly.
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Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) shell problems
Here's a little gotcha for anyone using Ubuntu 7.04 (it might have been in 6.10 too, I'm not sure) and some amount of shell scripting.
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200 LinkedIn
Today I got my 200th connection on LinkedIn. It's not something I've deliberately gone about achieving, but now I have a 'network' that size I'm wondering if there's something useful I can do with it? Maybe get a Stewie Griffin-esque mind control device and work on my plans of world domination?