jamin on February 28th, 2005

poker: Sometimes you encounter a hand where you’re up against a single player and you both have great reads on each other and it comes down to luck or a kicker. I was at the final table of a no-limit holdem tournament Saturday with my friend, Ryan. He was getting pretty low on [...]

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jamin on October 20th, 2004

We have a new online presentation available here for anyone who is interested in what I do for a living. It requires flash, contains video and sound, and is about 10 minutes long. It gives a pretty good overview of what our solution offers both to customers and resellers. Also goes into [...]

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jamin on June 22nd, 2004

Since I can’t go into work, have been struggling to get vpn working, and have a bunch of code to checkout/commit, Shazad is going to bring a v4 edge server to my house. In addition to having site-to-site VPN, this will enable me to work on QA issues with a more hands-on approach. [...]

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jamin on April 21st, 2004

We’ve got bugzilla and subversion up and are actually using them. So now we have decent source code control and bug tracking. And it’s working, too! One day later we’re on revision 13 in SVN and I’ve fixed and closed 7 bugs that were assigned to me.

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jamin on March 25th, 2004

My day was pretty productive for a first day at a new company. I arrived at the office in Westport shortly before nine. Started out by installing Fedora Core 1 on the PC that I’ll be using until my notebook arrives (probably Friday). Saw that FC1 ran nicely on my co-worker’s notebook [...]

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jamin on March 18th, 2004

Last night I met with the VistaWiz developers, otherwise known as the “whizzies”. It was a very informative meeting. I learned a bit about how embedded systems work including failover in the flash. We talked about our own Linux distribution based off Fedora init scripts and using the RPM package format. [...]

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