Category Archives: General

All Done

I’m all done here. Check out http://mando.tumblr.com for all future updates.
*Edit* Just kidding

Decisions, Decisions

Current conversation in my head:
Me: I need a more formal presence on teh intarweb.
Inner Me: Why?
Me: A couple of reasons:
Me: 1) I need to build the Mando Escamilla Brand.
Me: 2) I need a place to put all the stuff I work on.
Me: 3) I never blog any more, so mando.org is all empty and [...]

New Yankee Stadium

It’s nice, but I’m glad I’ve been to the House that Babe Built (on opening day, no less :). Rumor has it there’s gonna be even less seats in the new stadium, which will drive the ticket prices all the higher.

Boxing

I just remembered one of my workout goals: I want to start boxing again. I love the boxing workout, but I need to build up to it. So, once I can go out and finish a 30 min. run, I’m gonna start moving to a more traditional boxing workout. Something maybe like [...]

More on Ralking

I’m down 1.5 lbs. as of this morning. I know, I know. Water weight and all that. But I’ll take it.The way I figure, anything I lose will just help me feel better. And the better I feel, the more likely I am to continue exercising.I’m still trying to figure out [...]

American Scientist

So, from Lemonodor, I find a fascinating article on programming languages at the American Scientist: The Semicolon Wars.At the bottom of each page of the article (which is incredibly well-written), there are links to other incredibly well-written articles, all fascinating.Am I the last person to find out about American Scientist?  I’ve spent the last 30 [...]

New Format

So, I’m really bad at writing these stupid posts.  So, I’m gonna try and move to a more streamlined, simplified posting strategy.  One post per day, highlighting stuff I either a) find cool or b) don’t want to forget.  Let’s see how this works.

Project management

I swear, this shouldn’t be this hard.
We need a very simple project management tool for keeping track of our team’s resources. That’s it. Here’s the XP story for what I’d like to do with it:

I’d like to log in to the web app and, at a glance, see which developers are are [...]

We’re Hiring!

We have a programming position open for the right person.
Requirements:

Must know Perl and in particular, OO Perl.
You should know how to create a Perl module and use it in a non-sucky way. I don’t mean that you need to be able to map-grep-sort your way through solutions to problems. In fact, [...]

Abide

Are you abiding?
I’ve got to admit, I had to hit up dictionary.com for this one :). Abide is one of those words that I can’t really hang a definition on when it’s out of context. So, we’ll take the dictionary’s definitions and see how they apply:

To put up with; tolerate
To wait patiently for
To [...]