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Coming Soon: Getting Things Done In JavaScript

5 Comments Posted by on September 14, 2011

Okay, the blog has been very quiet for the last month or so. Please be polite and pretend you noticed. I’ve alluded online to a new book one or two places and now I think it’s far enough along that I can mention it in public without being too scared. Let’s do this Q&A style, [...]

Books, Jasmine, JavaScript, Me

What I Learned

9 Comments Posted by on September 6, 2011

As you may have heard, Obtiva got bought by Groupon. I’ve been traveling a bunch, so this coming week is my first full week in the Groupon office post-transition. And, well, someday maybe I’ll write retrospectively about Obtiva, but today isn’t that day. I’ll probably write about what I’m going to be doing at Groupon, [...]

Me, Projects

Bill James, Sabermetrics, and You, or At Least Me

2 Comments Posted by on August 31, 2011

I was a nerdy kid. I suppose that isn’t much of a surprise, given how I turned out. But in those pre-computer days, I was nerdy about math and baseball. I was the kind of kid that kept a daily log of my batting statistics in the recess kickball games. So you can imagine my [...]

Books, Me

Red Buttons, The Uncanny Valley, And BDD Workshops

1 Comment Posted by on August 15, 2011

I want to tell you about LoneStar RubyConf and how my session went and all that, but first I want to tell you this seemingly unrelated story. Once upon a time, my Senior undergraduate project was an educational software tool I built to teach fractions to elementary school students. (To give you the time frame [...]

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