Author Archive

Revisiting the New Year

Now that we are a few months into the new year I thought I would revisit the New Year’s Resolutions I posted earlier. At this point I’m not real happy with the progress I’ve made, but I’m willing to keep them in mind and continue to work toward these goals. I’m going to get these [...]

Read Full Post »

Smooth Criminal

I’ve never been a fan of Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal. I have always liked Alien Ant Farm’s cover of it though. It looks like I may have a new favorite cover. These cellists completely rock out. Who knew?

Read Full Post »

Python List Filter Helper

In a previous post, I mentioned I’ve been doing a lot of datagrid work lately. In addition to column sorting another feature I’ve added is the filtering of the datagrid by a specific value in a column. Most of these columns contain string values that we can use the same logic on, over and over [...]

Read Full Post »

Folsom Prison Gangsta

Those of you who have been around for a while know how much I love mashups. I especially love it if the mashup is some unusual variation on a rap song. I’ve had a copy of this one laying around for a while and it’s still one of my favorites. DJ Topcat put together this [...]

Read Full Post »

Python In-Memory Sort Helper

I’ve been doing a lot of work on datagrids lately. My datagrid work is originally based off of Djblets datagrids. One of the cool things about these datagrids is the ability to sort by any column in the grid. This is a problem if the sorting occurs at the query level and you are dealing [...]

Read Full Post »

Treadmill Desk Version 2.0

The last time I was motivated to lose weight I setup a table over my treadmill and walked while I worked. This was very productive and I ended up losing about 40 pounds. Now, that I’m getting back into the work out routine I thought I would do the same thing. There was just one [...]

Read Full Post »

New Year’s Resolutions

With the passing of the old year and the beginning of the new, many people make their traditional “New Year’s Resolutions”. I’ve usually eschewed these resolutions that more than likely will fail anyway. This year I’ve decided to give this whole resolution thing a go. I’m going to be successful at it too. I’m not [...]

Read Full Post »

Broadband Update

I ranted about my broadband frustrations in the previous post. An update to the story. Apparently the question to ask is not if I can get service to the home, but how much would it cost to get service to the home. After I talked with Mediacom a couple of more time I found out [...]

Read Full Post »

Broadband Frustration

I’m a software engineer and one of the few fortunate individuals who gets to work out of their home. We purchased some land a couple of years ago with the intention of building a new home. We are now in the process of building that house. Being a remote employee doing software development, I need [...]

Read Full Post »

Shingles, Colors, and Doors! Oh, My!

Now that the basement is done for our new house, our builder is getting ready to frame. So Rachel and I spent some time making decisions about the exterior of the house. We had to make decisions on the shingles, front door, and house color. We’ve decided to go with the “Estate Gray” for the [...]

Read Full Post »