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thoughts on pairing and xp

By John | Published: April 16, 2010
I moved from Follett Digital Resources to Follett Software Company.  This was not an easy transition – FDR was operated like a start up.  Do whatever to get the job done, not much oversight, and lots of role switching.  FSC is the exact opposite. FSC is all about pair programming and XP.   This is my [...]
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Technicasts’ Grand Opening

By John | Published: January 10, 2010
I’ve been a busy bee.  I’m about to release the 20th FOSSCast on Friday and I’m also starting another screencasting site this week – Technicasts.com. Technicasts is part me wanting to try and do some longer screencasts about topics that are too big for a 5-10 minute screencast, and part needing to find a way to [...]
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Lessons learned from 11 screencasts

By John | Published: November 13, 2009
I’ve now completed 11 screencasts for FOSSCasts.com, and I must say it has been a great learning experience.  I’d like to share the workflow that I’ve settled on. Getting Started First, the equipment: recorded on a Mac using Snapz Pro to record the desktop.  Lots of other Mac screencasters will recommend iShowU, but I already had a Snapz Pro [...]
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Drive Failure

By John | Published: October 26, 2009
I had a hard drive go out on my server at home a lost a couple months worth of posts.  Not fun. Back up your data kids.
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Used Car Shopping

By John | Published: July 12, 2009
We just bought a used 2007 Hyundai Elantra.  It’s a great car, but I completely hate the car buying experience.  Something learned this round. They (used car salesmen) will try to keep you there as long as possible.  This is to wear you down.  If you’re like me, after a while you’re ready to say yes to anything [...]
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blog.john.yerhot.org

By John | Published: November 19, 2008
I will be moving this weblog to blog.john.yerhot.org in the next couple days.  I will also be moving from Wordpress to my own home brew platform.  johnyerhot.com will still go here, and so will all the posts, but I will not be posting here any longer. blog.john.yerhot.org
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KVM, VMware, and my whole Saturday

By John | Published: September 27, 2008
My big project for the weekend has been moving my humble lil web hosting setup to a separated out, virtualized environment.  We’re doing this at work and have been very happy with the results. My original plan was to use KVM for the virtualization, so I could take advantage of paravirtualization.  Supposedly it is much faster [...]
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Henry Rollins at Sacred Heart

By John | Published: September 18, 2008
Just for those of you in N. Minnesota that love Henry Rollins as much as I, he’s gonna be at Sacred Heart Studio/Music Hall on October 23rd.  No word on how/where/when to get tickets… Directions to Sacred Heart and their phone number = (218) 723-189.
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Google Street View Car in Duluth

By John | Published: July 21, 2008
Guess what I saw today driving in Lakeside… Kind of hard to see, but yeah it is the Google Street View car.  My phone’s camera is pretty bad, this was as high res at it would allow…
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m night sucksalot

By John | Published: July 5, 2008
Why don’t I listen to people?  Jen and I just sat through The Happening.  Yes, it does suck just as much as every other M Night Shamalama dig dong movie since the Sixth Sense. How he managed to make Mark Wahlberg and John Leguizamo completely suck beyond belief is beyond me.  I’m not even sure why [...]
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