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Writing

Notes accumulated over the years—mostly software, data, infrastructure and whatever I was trying to understand at the time.

How Bad Data Happens data / data-quality / data-engineering / dataops Hive, managed vs external tables bigdata / hive / hadoop Announcing fn, a serverless framework serverless / software / fn Installing Java 8 on OS X 10.10 Yosimite java / java 8 Validation 1.0.0 released. oEmbed Even more secure passwords. Chrome OS. Salt your passwords. Maven and self signed client certs. Git checkout a tag. Giving Posterous a shot. Multiple users, same key in puppet. Restrict access in Puppet – part 2 Restrict access in Puppet - part 1 Groups in puppet. Setting up users and securing my server. Upgrading my server and installing puppet Let's use puppet instead. New development server Getting along with Eclipse So long IDEA OAuth 2.0 Apache falls victim to JIRA XSS exploit Another Open Source Library. My new open source Java OAuth library Announcing Announce.ly Some progress on continuous deployment GeekUp Hebden Bridge tonight Continuous Deployment 2nd Hebden Bridge Geek Up EC2 Spot instances Signups via twitter API There's no money in it GeekUp Hebden Bridge Useful commit messages Sproozi blog and pre-beta signup A meetup for Geeks in Hebden Bridge Downloading maven dependency source jars New look and an update on what's I've been doing. Geo tagging dongle Stop asking questions. Some thoughts on unit tests I've made a little JSR303 annotation library Hbase for storing Users? Scaling up vs scaling out I dropped the ball Setting your rates II What to charge Toying with ideas: geotagged podcast Open Source for Business GoRoam Realaunch Submitted our 4IP application Javascript mapping abstraction Welcome to the cloud User privacy A post a day for the month of June Some more thoughts on coworking in Hebden Bridge Does older browser support matter anymore? Coworking in Heben Bridge or my office is soon going to be a bedroom! Reverse HTTP and the cloud Customer Support, a tale of three companies. To follow or to nofollow... From freemium to pay to play American English vs British English Twitter Spam, is it really an issue? Started using the mechanical turk Local business advertising Crawler I see the point of git. I should add some of my own pictures. What am I doing here? almost profitable a crossroads Location, location, location Testing for search result quality I have no idea what I'm doing Working from home Hiring startup hackers What's with the twitter spam? Openness, strength or weakness? Location based is the future of mobile I'm loving Zemanta While they're all standing still... Up in the downturn Interfaces first Is it better? Location services - must try harder What I'm reading: 37 Signals, Defensive Design for the Web Weekend catchup Why are bookmarks so useless? A change of direction? Integration testing in maven - With Maven, Cargo, httpunit and Selenium More time passes Can't login after Leopard Upgrade. Oh Apple, why would you do this to me? Setting subversion up to work with contractors I've been a little slack with the posting Get your contractors under control another new design There is no excuse for... back buttons that don't work Saying no some more There is no excuse for... bad URLs Spartan Programming Release early - Release often Get your development under control - all about version control Minimum Stable Feature-set Never rewrite your software Building an application targeting estate agents It's not working! Again! Saying no Finding my voice