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Training 11/11
November 11, 2009 - 10:26 pm
Posted in Brazilian Ju Jutsu, Martial Arts, My MMA Training | No Comments
Today started by working on pulling guard if you feel like your opponent is better on his feet then you and then a sequence from open guard. I have rarely tried to pull guard from standing because I always feel like I have the advantage on my feet, and rarely feel comfortable on my back [...]
Training 11/4
November 8, 2009 - 8:29 pm
Tags: MMAA
Posted in Brazilian Ju Jutsu, My MMA Training, Techniques | No Comments
It has been 2 weeks since I last trained, I tried to come in last Wednesday but they were testing. Rodrigo ran warmups and taught the first technique, then Greg finished up the rest of the class. It was great to take a class from him again, it has been years (literally). [...]
Bullet plugin
November 3, 2009 - 9:56 pm
Tags: gems, rails, ruby
Posted in Programming | No Comments
Recently I have been working on improving the performance in one of my clients Rails applications, trying to get page load times down. Looking at the query log it was obvious that there was way too much activity going on for what was being rendered on the page–there were N+1 queries all over the place. [...]
LAMP Development for Windows
April 14, 2009 - 9:32 pm
Tags: easyeclipse, lamp, memcached, pear, php, windows, xampp
Posted in Programming | No Comments
I have been doing development in PHP for a long time and have yet to find a really satisfactory solution on Windows. When I recently flattened my home PC and had to restart I thought I would try a new setup and here is what I’m using. Its pretty good to me so far, and [...]
Javascript, Flash and cross-browser clipboard fun
June 20, 2008 - 5:43 pm
Tags: clipboard, cross browser, flash, javascript
Posted in Programming | 3 Comments
Recently I have been wrestling with writing some code that will manipulate text on a user’s clipboard in a web browser. I thought I would share my findings here for others who might be interested in the same topic.
First lets start by looking at the Windows Clipboard in general. The clipboard, as we [...]
Miles per Gallon vs. Gallons per Mile
June 19, 2008 - 7:34 pm
Tags: behavioral, gas, statistics
Posted in behavioral decision theory | 3 Comments
A new study by Richard Larrick of Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, recently published in Science magazine shows that most people have the wrong intuition about how to save gas. This is because they misunderstand what the “miles per gallon” statistic actually represents. As a result of this they may not be doing [...]
Trynt Web Services
June 19, 2008 - 10:50 am
Tags: web service, web technology
Posted in Internet | No Comments
Looking around for cool services to make use of in ISpeechPlugins I stumbled upon Trynt Heavy Technologies. I’m not sure what their business plan is but they have a seemingly useful list of APIs for people to take advantage of. Worth a look if you want some services to play with.
I hope they take themselves seriously
June 13, 2008 - 1:57 am
Posted in Things that make NNT cry | No Comments
While watching Game 4 of the NBA Finals this evening I accidentally saw a commercial for thee local news here in Seattle. I generally try and avoid local news like the plague–its like cable news but with a lower budget. Anyhow, the commercial warned any and all that were listening that we had [...]
This blog as my notebook
June 12, 2008 - 12:10 am
Posted in personal | No Comments
I thought I should give some context to the upcoming posts. As I don’t imagine that anyone other than myself, and maybe my wife (if she is incredibly bored) will read this blog, I intent to use it as a kind of personal notebook. I have found (along with many others), that writing [...]
