A friend sent this in an email. #funny
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 307)
I never met him, but a fellow named Eran at the 2013 Buddhist Geeks Conference was passing out these buttons. #clever
A funny Zen meditation image, posted by the folks at the Providence Zen Center on either Twitter or Facebook (I don’t remember where).
The design of this website has been bothering me almost since I switched to it. The biggest problem was that all of the blocks I had on the side, especially the tall ad block, made the content hard to read.
So this weekend I finally took the time to change it, and Goal #1 was to make blog posts like this one easier to read. As a result, I switched to a simple (and somewhat drastic) approach of a one-column design.
As conferences go, the next one for me is the Yoga Journal Conference, which will be held September 22-29, 2013, in Estes Park, Colorado.
I found a little bug in Google Maps on the drive back from Crested Butte, CO. Pretty funny in retrospect.
According to this article on nbcnews.com, wolves howl when they miss their friends. As a former Siberian Husky owner, I can confirm that they howl when you leave the house.
I just got back from attending the 2013 Buddhist Geeks Conference immediately followed by the Scala Summit, and found two boxes full of Scala Cookbooks waiting for me. Methinks I need to have a raffle or something.
Today I decided that I will no longer tell people that I went to the Buddhist Geeks Conference this past weekend. The reason isn't that I'm embarassed about it in any way. Indeed, I met some of the nicest, most interesting people I've ever met, and I hope to stay in touch with them, help them in their missions, and see them again next year.
An artist named Kelly Kingman did a wonderful job of capturing the 2013 Buddhist Geeks Conference talks. I’ve never seen anything like that, and they are a wonderful way of visually capturing a talk. (Sadly, my phone camera is messed up, and I don’t have any higher-resolution images than this, so I hope some other geeks will post their photos over time.)
MongoDB FAQ: How do I create a MongoDB database?
To create a MongoDB database, follow these steps:
In my spare time I’ve been working on a talk about “X Things Java Developers Should Know About Scala,” inspired by the “Ten things every Java programmer should know about Ruby” presentation. Currently I’m thinking there are a baker’s dozen things Java developers should know about Scala, and I’d organize them as follows.
(If I just show a slide below, that means I haven’t finished a video for that topic yet.)
As near as I can tell, the people who connect their Netflix accounts to their Facebook accounts have an average age of about eight years old.
Cult of Mac reports that iCloud is getting the iOS 7 look and feel treatment.
The 2013 Buddhist Geeks Conference is almost here. This image shows a small version of the printable schedule. Here’s a link to the full online schedule, and here’s a link to the printable schedule.
