mark_l_watson
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Carol and I are in Rhode Island with our grandchildren, daughter and son in law - life is good :-)
6:31 PM Nov 22nd
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2012 was a good movie - my wife loved it, actually, and I thought that the action and special effects made it worthwhile.
9:16 AM Nov 17th
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A friend has a 1/2 done Drupal project and needs a developer - and references? This would be work done remotely.
8:16 AM Nov 16th
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I discovered a new hiking trail today within 1/2 mile of our house - a great discovery that gets me to an area in mountains behind Sedona.
12:28 PM Nov 12th
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Heroku is awesome: just ported a MySQL+ThinkingSphinx web app to Heroku PostgresQL+texticle in about 10 minutes
12:44 PM Nov 11th
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too long for a tweet: (MongoDB index and search techniques)
11:10 AM Nov 11th
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My parrot is enjoying eating a mushroom, after flying around the house at about 25 MPH - a speed demon.
8:05 AM Nov 11th
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I just posted - installing CouchDB+nginx_basic_auth + ruby client
7:49 PM Nov 10th
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Advice on stuck EC2s: 'ec2-detach-volume --force ..' to release EBSs, ignore stuck EC2: no billing for them and they eventually go away.
7:26 AM Nov 10th
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Someone at Amazon gave me good advice to working around "stuck" EC2 instances. I am now "un-annoyed" :-)
7:24 AM Nov 10th
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Has now been 4 hours since a EC2instance got stuck on EMS volume errors and I tried to shut it down. Amazon needs a 'kill it now' option.
7:13 PM Nov 9th
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Hmm - my stuck EC2 instance still has not terminated as requested after 1 hour - logs report mucho errors on EBS volumes. Need to unplug :-)
4:01 PM Nov 9th
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Hmm. I just had an EC2 instance become unresponsive, and shutting it down did not free the mounted EBS - this is why you need EBS snapshots
3:11 PM Nov 9th
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One advantage MonoDB has over CouchDB is sort-of OK authentication that works out of the box with a few minutes setup. Big CouchDB problem.
2:38 PM Nov 9th
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Bummer: Jerry Weinberg's medical condition. His early book 'Egoless Programmer' had a fine effect on my career. His later books: also good.
1:05 PM Nov 9th
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Just finished writing a DevX article on writing Wave Robots in Java - fun stuff!
11:58 AM Nov 9th
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Latex symbols guide: - I feel sorry for people who like to write, but don't use Latex
8:24 AM Nov 8th
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Nice: JRuby 1.4.0 final is released :-)
2:33 PM Nov 4th
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Using Amazon AWS (EC2, EBS, etc.): after a while, it gets to be like driving a car: you don't think about driving, just your destination :-)
8:54 AM Nov 4th
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Rinari: the keyboard shortcuts for navigating Rails projects:
7:33 AM Nov 1st
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- Name mark_l_watson
- Location Sedona Arizona
- Web http://markwatson...
- Bio I am an author of 16 books (Java, artificial intelligence, Linux, etc.) and a Ruby/Java consultant
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