Blog
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Flickr (finally) gets a decent slideshow
One of the very few things about Flickr that's not so great is that the slideshow feature is poor at best. With all the fancy usability-enhanced goodness of my photo-website of choice, the slideshow's tiny pictures, no descriptions and just sheer, well 2003-ness is just shockingly bad.
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XTC-NYC #8 @ D.B.A.
D.B.A. was fun 2 weeks ago, so we're going to try it again as an eXtreme Tuesday venue. More details here.
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The NYSE blog
One of the many enjoyable parts to my new job is when I get to meet some of my actual New York Stock Exchange colleagues from our famous office on Broad St (the TransactTools office is a 5 minute walk up Broadway.) The people I've met so far are a good bunch, lacking some of the harshness I've found from some previous organizations. Moreover some of them have huge amounts of experience being here.
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Finetix Acquired!
My ex-employer as of only 6 weeks ago have been bought by Sungard - I didn't see that one coming while I was there!
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Looking for Java developers in NYC!
As I mentioned in my earlier posting, one of my first tasks here at NYSE TransactTools is to hire some great developers. The engineering team right now is 11 people strong, but we're looking to grow that significantly.
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Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) shell problems
Here's a little gotcha for anyone using Ubuntu 7.04 (it might have been in 6.10 too, I'm not sure) and some amount of shell scripting.
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April '07 Music purchases
As I'm sure I've mentioned before, I'm a bit of a luddite when it comes to buying music. Despite the rather excessive amounts of technology infiltrating my lifestyle, I still refuse to buy music online. Never mind the crippling DRM, nor the fact that the quality isn't as good, I like the ritual of opening up the wrapping, looking at the sleeve notes, and all that. So every now and then I'll buy a whole bunch of new records from Amazon or even do the very unfashionable thing of going to a music store.
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200 LinkedIn
Today I got my 200th connection on LinkedIn. It's not something I've deliberately gone about achieving, but now I have a 'network' that size I'm wondering if there's something useful I can do with it? Maybe get a Stewie Griffin-esque mind control device and work on my plans of world domination?
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XTC-NYC #7 @ D.B.A.
We're still trying to figure out a venue for eXtreme Tuesday. This week we'll be at D.B.A. at 41 1st Ave between 2nd and 3rd streets. If nothing else their beer selection is very impressive.
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Starting at NYSE TransactTools
I've mentioned this briefly in a couple of posts now, but I have a new job. Finetix was a great introduction to a financial software career in New York City, but my new role at NYSE TransactTools (or TT as I'll refer to them from now on) was just too good to pass up.