September 2010
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Last Day: 3M Visual Attention Service web site
Today marks the final day that my team at 3M is working on the Visual Attention Service web site (http://vas.3m.com). It has been an awesome year working with this team on a really, really great project.
The list of features and technologies used on this project was impressive:
Public web site built with ASP .NET MVC 2, hosted in Azure
Windows Azure (web roles, worker roles, blob storage)
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Picked up Halo: Reach
Walmart always pulls through early on launch days with no lines. Nobody even in the store, for that matter.
It’ll be a late night tonight :)
Inetium is Hiring
Inetium (http://inetium.com) is hiring. We have positions waiting to be filled by talented people who have a passion for technology at their core. Our bar is high (at least if I’m doing the interviewing!), and we require consultants who maintain a high level of care and concern for our customers. We are looking for people who push their own limits of what they know of technology and...
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Halo: Reach release is tomorrow
The long-awaited Halo: Reach game for XBox 360 launches tomorrow. Is anybody not excited? I have my copy reserved and I plan on playing for a long time after little kiddie bed time Tuesday night. My daughter is pretty excited about the game too, believe it or not. She and I use Forge in Halo 3 all the time.
At the bare minimum, the new Halo will be a new set of multiplayer maps. That alone would...
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Android dev newbie: use HTTP client to get json...
I’ve been doing mild development for Android for about a week now. Up until last night, it’s been all very basic Hello Werld kind of coding - things like basic UI layout tasks and event wiring. Last night I decided it was time to see if I could actually pull some data from a local test web server into an Android app.
In hindsight, this task was pretty easy. However, the Android and...
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Introducing the Error Alpaca
Before I get to the Error Alpaca, I have to explain that I’m reviving my good old kindohm.com web site to be my personal internet end point for information about me. Hodnick.com will continue to live on for blog/article posts. Rss feed URLs haven’t changed. It’s a personal internet identity crisis that has now been put to rest.
The new kindohm.com is a new informational source...
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That's my girl
Eva (5 yrs) and I had the following discussion at breakfast today:
Me: Do you know what today is?
Eva: No
Me: It’s the first day of September
Eva: Does that mean that the new Halo is coming out?
// tears of joy //
That’s my girl.