The Mind Of James

January 7, 2013 Tech's Day Job There is no free lunch. Even tech companies need a day job.
November 17, 2012 Moving To San Francisco - II My first weekend was full of ADVENTURE!
November 2, 2012 Moving to San Francisco - I Why I moved, where I'll be, and what I'm doing.
August 28, 2012 I'm a programmer, dammit! I make mistakes all the time, but becoming a programmer isn't one of them.
August 3, 2012 Programmers don't "build" programs Developers are the craftsman and gardeners of software. We don't build software, we create, we grow, and we cultivate software.
July 31, 2012 From Zero to web app programmer - Part 1 Are you wondering how to become a web app programmer? Let me show you what I did! Part 1 shows off my Linux development environment and a roadmap for GIT and Github.
July 25, 2012 I don't care This is my most powerful weapon of self reflection.
July 22, 2012 My migration to Jekyll Sometimes you have to try something different.
May 27, 2012 Post-Resume Future... The problem isn't having a portfolio, a good resume, or OSS cred. The problem is visibility.
February 25, 2012 Enumerating USB Mass Storage Devices in Ruby and Windows OMG! I have something technical to talk about!
January 25, 2012 Reading From Around the Web - January 25th Find out if Tim Tebow is a muslim, manufacturing in China, crazy Israelis, where ideas come from, and why the US has the seperation between the church and state.
January 18, 2012 Come Join Our Read-Through of GEB! Now that the internet is down today because of SOPA, I have a lot of free time today.
January 6, 2012 Reading From Around the Web - January 6th Learn about the Great Divergence, Kafkatrapping, GEB, the Food Bubble, and praise!
December 5, 2011 Pointer Enlightenment Pointers are a fun concept in computer programming.
November 28, 2011 Steal My Idea I read a LOT of things. These days my reading is generally web based, with a nice thick book for leisure. I'm still the dead tree type for my pleasure reading, but I have started transitioning my technical and non-fiction to bytes and electrons.
November 10, 2011 One Password to Rule Them All Today Valve revealed that the Steam servers were hacked. Nobody is safe these days...
November 7, 2011 The End of an Age What is the plucky young builder to do these days? Are the halcyon days of quick internet riches to the garage dwelling future business owners gone?
October 19, 2011 How I Manage My Data - The Quick and Dirty Backup I won't lie to you. Backing up data is a pain. It's hard to make it automated if you aren't tech oriented. Even if you are it's still difficult.
October 17, 2011 How I Manage My Data - Introduction The other day Indie Stone, the studio behind Project Zomboid, were robbed. Among the things taken were their two development laptops. This is significant because those laptops contained the latest source code, and their external backup is woefully out of date. Disasters like this are sadly not unique.
October 5, 2011 The World Lost a Great Geek When I heard the announcement on NPR this morning, I turned the radio off and sat in shock.
October 2, 2011 Who's Watching You? Facebook has recently updated it's session information so they can track you even when you log off. This includes monitoring what websites you are visiting and what you are reading online. Even if you don't have a Facebook, by visiting their site they will still track your browsing habits.
October 2, 2011 Reporting From the Front Lines Today is Day 2 of the occupation. I'm sitting in the coffee house sipping my coffee as I review notes from yesterday. My back is sore from sleeping on the concrete sidewalk, but the crisp morning air is refreshing. What a great way to start Occupy Los Angeles.
October 1, 2011 The Revolution You Don't Know A lot of people I talk to haven't heard of the protests that are spreading around the country and the globe. Currently it is the third week of the Occupy Wall St protest, and it constantly surprises and disheartens me that so many people I know aren't aware of it's existence.
September 26, 2011 Once More Into The Breach! Blogging and I haven't seen eye to eye in the last several years.