who am i?
I'm a software company project manager, a photographer, snowboarder, Apple fanboy and superdad. in no particular order.
you can find me at twitter
as well as my photography work at photos.blainekendall.com and flickr. videos at youtube
twitter- blainekendall: @sportsguy33 get the czar on the phone, we definitely need a Jersey Shore recap after that episode.
- blainekendall: Just preordered #AppleTV. Ships by the end of the month. Now I just need #Netflix to come through with their plans for Canada by November.
- blainekendall: what will the usb port on the #AppleTV be used for? Can I plug in an external drive with additional music, photos, movies?
- blainekendall: @geoffreykerr @kalantak Definitely give this a try. Twitter for iPad Offers a Fresh New Interface http://t.co/xU96itM via @MacRumors
- blainekendall: @mart3ll at least the 3G slowness is fixed. Can't take using the 3G anymore after getting used to the speed of the 4. Hurry up iOS 4.1
Monthly Archives: August 2003
Links to utils: Count your lines and obfuscate
The JDJ email had some links to some very useful tools. 2 in particular I could see myself using for personal projects. Proguard is used to obfuscate your Java classes…never 100% secure, but deters those other than the really commited. … Continue reading
Posted in Java, Software
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Who needs electricity?
I decided to work at home this day. And I’m really glad I did. It turned out to be one of the smartest decisions I’d made in a long time. But it also left me a little puzzled since I … Continue reading
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Installing Tomcat as a service
I needed to reinstall Tomcat as a service this morning. I found this reference which I’d used before in the past but has now disappeared. Luckily Google cached it.This originally appeared on mattkelli.com. Setting up TomCat 4.1.12 to run as … Continue reading
Huge list of UML tools
In my RSS aggregator, I was reading about a list of UML tools. What a great resource. It even lists by price…which is very important to me. I like the open source stuff. I tried out the first one, ESS-Model. … Continue reading
Posted in Java, Software
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5 Lessons from XP
Five Lessons you should learn from Extreme Programming. This was posted to the XPToronto mailing list. I’m a bit of an XP sceptic. I think there are some good practises, but some of them I can’t adhere to. I’ve never … Continue reading
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Bad hair day or lightning strike?
Last night the weather at our Ultimate game was not the nicest. Overcast and cloudy. About halfway into the game, rain drops started to fall. Rain or shine, it’s game on. Only in the case of lightning are the games … Continue reading
Posted in General, Life, Ultimate Frisbee
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