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Self Classification

Sep 1

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I’m a geek.  I’ve worked in IT for years.  Most of that time was spent as a network administrator, some of it was also spent writing VERY minimal ColdFusion and PHP.  I’ve never had a job as a full-on developer.  I’ve been using ColdFusion for 10 years, and I’m proficient with most of the ins and outs of how it works.  It’s mostly just been a hobby for me.  The only time I’ve ever been paid to do any kind of development was when I wrote a back-end tool to save some manual effort at a job of mine, and a few pieces here and there I did for Free Talk Live.  Sure, I’ve always wanted to be a professional developer, but that’s just not the way the career has gone up to this point.  It took me a while to figure out how to classify where my skill level and experience fit….

From this point on, I wish to be known as a “recreational ColdFusion developer”.

Anyone else?

Intuition Juice – Weight Loss Blog

Aug 27

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My girlfriend, Lisa, has recently started a blog at IntuitionJuice.com.  In the next couple of months she is going to be having weight loss surgery and has decided to chronicle her journey through the process.  She also posts advice for people who are considering the various types of WLS or are working through any kind of weight loss program in general.

What I really like are the product reviews for various foods, beverages and supplements.  Let’s face it, most “diet” food tastes like ass.  It’s nice that someone else is tasting it first so I know what to expect going in.  Of course, that doesn’t really help me TOO much in this case since I will usually have to try it with her.

I know from personal experience that trying to lose weight can be a hard (and some would say impossible) goal.  It’s nice to have a resource for advice and information from someone who is going through the same thing.  I still haven’t made the decision on whether surgery or another “diet program” is going to be the best way to go for myself.  But, at least now I have a place to start getting some good info.

Day Job and Delays

Aug 19

Posted by Scott in Miscellaneous, Personal Life, Projects | 1 Comment

I know it’s been a while since I was supposed to be fixing the issues with TweetBomb.  I’ve been a bit busy with the day job and the kids getting ready for back to school, so I haven’t had much time (read: none at all) to devote to it.  Sorry for the delays.  I’ve figured out what the cause of the issue was, at least.  It looks like during the DDoS attacks that Twitter was suffering lately, their API (understandably) became somewhat unreliable.  Unfortunately, the way I had the queue system set up, I didn’t handle broken API results properly and it hosed the entire queue.

I’m going to be re-working the entire back-end portion of the system over the next couple of days.  Now that the children are back in school, I’ll probably have  more time to work on it.  When all is said and done, there will be no more queue.  Once you submit your Twitter credentials, the system should start deleting your old tweets almost immediately.  I’ll let everyone know when it’s back up and running properly.

Also, I got whitelist approval from Twitter for the app, so it should no longer go against your personal API request limit for the hour.  This means that you won’t have to worry about TweetDeck (or your other Twitter client of choice) being unable to keep up with your Twitter stream because you run out of API calls.

Again, sorry for the delays.  Look for news soon.

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