A two-part screencast series demonstating two different 3D ruby-processing applications. A slide presentation from 2009 created for the Phoenix Ruby Group is also attached as bonus material. Enjoy! Part 1: Starfield Demo of a 3D starfield simulation written in pure Ruby, running on the JRuby runtime as a nicely packaged .app program for Mac OS [...]
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Free Copy Of Portal With New Mac Steam Client
May 12th, 2010
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Got a Mac? Like games? Great news! Value’s “Steam” software finally launched for Mac, allowing you to purchase some great gaming titles on your OS X machine. When a game is available on multiple platforms, a purchased license appear to be portable as well. And as a launch promotion, Value is giving away free copies [...]
Desert Code Camp 2009 Session Materials
June 15th, 2009
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Thanks for the love this past weekend at Desert Code Camp! Here are the presentation materials used in both my sessions… Concurrency Using Threads – [slides] [sample code] (Many thanks to Jim Weirich for the original Keynote slides and example code.) 3D GUI Development With ruby-processing – [slides] [starfield] [twiverse]
Running A Small Business, In Three Words
May 6th, 2009
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Captain Preston McAwesome Lee
March 30th, 2009
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10 Woes Of Small Business Ownership
March 5th, 2009
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You work more than anyone else. You cannot take time off at leisure. You carry constant stress. You get paid less. You get paid last. You pay for other peoples taxes and benefits. You always deal with the “problem” cases, not the fun ones. You are asked for more-more-more, often by those who already have [...]
Presenting At Phoenix Ruby Monday, February 9th
February 4th, 2009
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I’ll be giving a technical presentation to the Phoenix Ruby User Group on Monday, February 9th at 6:30pm. The topic will be using logical programming Prolog concepts within the object-oriented Ruby programming language using the ruby_prolog gem. Attendance is free and open!
Book Review: slide:ology
February 3rd, 2009
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I recently received a review copy of slide:ology – The art and science of creating great presentations by Nancy Duarte, published by O’Reilly Media. I’m consciously making an effort to increase my frequency of speaking engagements, so I was thrilled to see a modern text on visual aids from a heavy usability-oriented angle. I’ve read the [...]
Ben The Snowman Picture
January 3rd, 2009
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OpenRain’s heater when out recently, and it got cold. Property management figured out how to hack the unit into a working state again, but only after some badgering. Ben dropped some not-so-subtle hints
2008 Year-End OpenRain Reflections
December 24th, 2008
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A couple weeks ago OpenRain had a private dinner party for staff and significant others to get to know each other better. Amidst each new wine bottle we talked about friends, family, etc… and discovered that our graphic designer becomes exceedingly funny with each glass of Pino. Beforehand, though, we had an internal meeting to note [...]
