2012
Saturday, December 15, 2012
On a normal Friday of a normal December, a bunch of families said goodbye to their kids and sent them off to school. Announcements. Meetings for the Principal. A normal Friday.
Then the abnormal sound of gunfire. Of violence. Of death.
And now, the sound of tears, of sadness, of remembering and loss... of fears and nightmares past and future.
I keep imagining what it must be like for the parents of the victims today, especially of the young children.
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
Like many towns, West Hartford has a advertising supported, free weekly paper that's mailed to everyone. The latest issue arrived today with this as the front page article:
Fire, police overtime nears $3 million in 2010
The Town of West Hartford paid nearly $3 million in overtime compensation in 2010 to police and fire department personnel, according to data released under a Freedom of Information request.
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Town administrators this year combed through expenses, trimming nearly $1 million from the original proposed budget before approving a 2012-13 spending plan.
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
You can now pull in photos from your Facebook account. Right now, it grabs everything, but I have controls in the works to let you choose privacy settings or hide individual photos.
There's pseudo realtime support, too. Proxigram should update basically as soon as you upload the photo.
As always, everything is on Github.
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Quick update on Proxigram: it now supports Flickr, Yahoo's popular photo sharing service. If you're a Pro account holder, it will even get realtime updates from Flickr, just like Instagram provides.
The "point" of the app has changed, too. The goal is to build a single API endpoint for all of your photos. While the photos will still be hosted on their respective services, you can now get one read-only API to see a normalized view of them all.
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Saturday, April 28, 2012
I'm happy to share a little experiment I played with this week. I needed to take a look at Node.js & it's family of technology for a project but found it hard to find good explanations of best practices, etc. There are a half-dozen competing boilerplate/template samples that have very little in the way of explanation or comments. So, I decided the best way to get familiar with the nitty gritty of building a Node/Express app was to write one.
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
Where We Live ran a show today on why younger people (25-34) are leaving the state. I ended up missing the show (listening to it now!), but caught a very lively discussion on Twitter.
One side conversation (you can see it on storify here) that I joined in on was about how hard it is to convince people to move to CT.
Let's be honest. It's hard. Harder than it should be, quite honestly, considering how nice it is to live here.
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