Posts Tagged ‘houston’
ACSA Pre-analysis
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
This is going to be a long post. Some tangential points, other valid assessments.
So my behavior towards ACSA has been rather unorthodox this week considering it’s Saturday and it’s my project–and I’ve stopped talking about it. Have I lost hope and interest?
No.
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Tags: accesscamp, Accessibility, acsa09, event challenges, event planning, houston, san antonio
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And now it’s official
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
I’ve more than hinted at it before. Suggested, implied, gave an impression, etc. that I was moving back to San Antonio. That time has come.
There were a number of factors that finally pushed me to this point. The most important is that it’s quite simply the right time. There’s not a better time to get involved in SA events… in SA! The time where I can manage keeping track of Houston happenings and SA happenings has stopped happening (*sigh*), and naturally, my interest in Houston happenings aren’t as high as in SA.
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Tags: advantj, air, houston, moving, san antonio, squadron
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Having my cake and eating it, too
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
I’m pretty fond of “from scratch” developing, but I decided, being a sole developer in cases, to check out some application frameworks on languages I already know. So in addition to Rails, I started using CakePHP, and it’s a pretty solid framework, but highlights some problems I have with PHP. Namely, everything uses arrays to a heavy degree. Granted, Rails does too, but it feels easier on the eyes and brain when you’re not trying to figure out an array within an array within an array within a class all using backwards-compatible PHP syntax.
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Tags: bexar county, cakephp, elections, houston, php, post office, rambling, san antonio, stupid, texas, usps, voting, web development
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