Notable URLs on 2005-03-30

• NPR : Jazz Guitarist Wes Montgomery: Music journalist Ashley Kahn talks about Smokin' at the Half Note, a reissued CD that spotlights the music of famed jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery in his prime.
  ( Jazz Music people_AshleyKahn people_WesMontgomery )
• NPR : 'Bring Out Your Dead': Monty Python Hits Broadway: Monty Python's Spamalot -- with a reported budget of $12 million -- is the brainchild of Eric Idle, an original member of the six-man group.
  ( MontyPython Theatre people_EricIdle )
• NPR : To the Limit: Ultramarathoner Dean Karnazes: To most people, a marathon sounds like an epic physical challenge, a draining test of one's conditioning, such as the 26.2-mile Boston Marathon. Then there are athletes like Dean Karnazes, who has run for 262 miles straight.
  ( Amusing Insane Running )
• Is Silicon Valley similar to Detroit?: Medsphere Systems is a start-up that hopes to bring the open-source software formula to hospitals. Fewer than 10 percent of American hospitals have computerized clinical systems
  ( Healthcare MSC Opensource )

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Notable URLs on 2005-03-26

• Home :: eXPlain Project Management Tool: eXPlain Project Management Tool (or just eXPlainPMT) is a web-based application developed with the Ruby on Rails framework that supports the eXtreme Programming development methodology.
  ( PM Rails Ruby Scripts XP )
• voip-info.org : Aastra 480i: The Aastra 480i is the same phone as its sister ADSI model (480e), but has 4 extra buttons for virtual lines. Designed for SIP v1 & v2. Asterisk is one of the PBX's used for testing by development, so it is built to be asterisk friendly.
  ( Telephone VOIP )

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Notable URLs on 2005-03-20

• DoubleCommand: software for Mac OS X (a kernel extension) that lets you remap keys, in other words change the way your keyboard works. Often used to make a PC keyboard more comfortable with a Mac
  ( MacOSX Software )
• Technical Interview Questions For Computer Science Programmers: heh. No answers
  ( Interview Job Management )
• Frequently asked technical interview questions and answers
  ( Interview Job Management )
• ColorZilla: ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page.
  ( Firefox Plugin Software )
• Arachno Ruby Editor and IDE: helps you to create applications and web based solutions in this extremly powerful language much faster.
  ( Programming Ruby Software Win32 )
• ONLamp.com: Rolling with Ruby on Rails: Ruby is a pure object-oriented programming language with a super clean syntax that makes programming elegant and fun. Ruby successfully combines Smalltalk's conceptual elegance, Python's ease of use and learning, and Perl's pragmatism.
  ( Rails Ruby Tutorials )
• (24)Slash7: MVC: The Most Vexing Conundrum: MVC, short for Model/View/Controller, is one of the hallmarks of Ruby on Rails%u2019 design. But unless you know what that is, just saying so doesn%u2019t do much for ya.
  ( Articles MVC Programming Rails Ruby )

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Notable URLs on 2005-03-19

• (24)Slash7: Really Getting Started in Rails: It's actually a pretty good article, the one with the most depth and breadth that I've seen at this point, and I used it to explore Rails last night.
  ( Programming Rails Ruby Tutorials )

Posted by ben at 11:59 PM

Notable URLs on 2005-03-13

• TANN Orange County Traffic Map
  ( Autos Cartography OC Traffic )

Posted by ben at 11:59 PM

MSC: Week 1

Today marks one week at Medsphere. It's 6:20pm. Steve and I are heading to Indianapolis to do a technology review with a company that we want to partner with... Yeah, if I had to travel all the time, this could get annoying, but if the trip is useful and productive I'm all for it.

It's been an interesting week. There's a lot of work to be done here. At the moment, much of it is tactical -- related to ongoing and upcoming deployments. Although I'm helping manage the development effort, our team must also work on the custom enhancements and interfaces required for each deployment. This is going to be a distracting aspect of the job. Making sure we keep our heads up, looking towards the long-term goals while trying to keep up with today's customers needs.

Posted by ben at 06:20 PM
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Ten years of friends

My last day at UCI was a week ago. It's been a very strange experience to leave. I guess I've never left a place after an almost 10 year association.

When I think back about the work done there's only a few fragments here and there... Sure we did meaningful things (to us), but what really comes to mind is the friends.

Ten years with one group of people really allows you and your families to become entangled. We know each others kids and spouses, many of them were at our wedding, we were at theirs, we babysat their kids (or pets), etc. That's the tough part of leaving and one I hadn't really considered. Sure I liked what I did at GSM, but we spent years building those relationships.

Will we be able to build new relationships at Medsphere? Without a doubt. That just takes time. What troubles me most is, will we be able to maintain these existing relationships?

Posted by ben at 07:45 PM
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Notable URLs on 2005-03-05

• EarLove: Practice Safe Sound (ear plugs for music lovers
  ( Health Music ToBuy )

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Notable URLs on 2005-03-01

• TestQuest: leader in automated test solutions for embedded systems with sophisticated human interfaces. We specialize in automated test solutions for virtually any application and device in the pervasive computing industry %u2013 from cell phones, PDAs and tablets t
  ( Hardware Testing Vendor )

Posted by ben at 11:59 PM