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Ruby Prime Generation

For a possible job in the Seattle area, one of my prospective employers is having me submit some solutions to problems found on Project Euler. While working on a particular issue, I’ve discovered that the method I’ve used for calculating the list of prime numbers performs better than the stock Prime class that is provided [...]

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Here we go again.

So, after another long drought of posts, I’ve decided that, because of the position that life is taking me, that I need to become more involved with the development community as a whole.  In my case, that means exposing my development abilities to the world, and the best way to do that is to show [...]

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Thoughts from Madrailers

First off, yes, I know I haven’t put anything up here in six months.  That’s my mistake.  I’ll try to do better in the future. Honestly, I just haven’t felt like writing in that time period. Until today. Well, technically yesterday night. Whatever. Yesterday, I had the wonderful experience of meeting a fantastic group of [...]

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Exploring the Droid

Recently I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with my new phone. The previous statement isn’t much of a surprise in this day in age, but I think I should qualify what I mean. I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with the software internals of my new phone.

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Resume Available

Hello All – I put my resume up for availability as I’m not quite certain how much longer I can stay at my current job.  I’ll be looking around for things to work on in the Dubuque area, so if anyone knows of any open positions, please let me know. The resume itself can be [...]

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DNN Module Creation, Explained (part 1).

Since I haven’t shown up here for a while, I should talk a little bit about what’s been going on in my life. I’ll keep it short. December: Left my job in Rock Island, was in a musical at Quad City Music Guild, Found a job in Dubuque at 365Advantage, lived in a suitcase until [...]

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Quandary (part 1)

I wish to pose a question to the masses, particularly to other available software developers. Take this statement: “The more screwed up the process, the longer you have a job.” How does that make you feel? Does it bother or amuse you? Would you feel uncomfortable hearing it from a coworker? A boss? When does [...]

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Don’t Break the Chain

After reading this post on LifeHacker, I couldn’t escape the feeling that I should start doing something like this.  I mean, it works for Jerry Seinfeld, it can’t be all that bad. Basically, as described on the link above, the idea is that you keep a daily calendar of all the specific goals you want [...]

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