Montana Harkin

Moving to Corvallis

Montana — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:54:11 +0000

Looks like we are moving to Corvallis. Erin found this nice ’70s house that needs some updating. It is in a nice neighborhood and we should be able to fit in well. Now, to sell our current house!

PCR: When you need to know who the daddy is.

Montana — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:44:38 +0000

BeaverBarCamp

Montana — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:36:08 +0000

BeaverBarCamp. Was it worth going to? I say yes.

There were definitely some smart/cool projects happening. The next BarCamp I’ll try and attend more events. Our BeaverSource presentation went well, Eric Betts did a great job describing it. Hopson++ for getting the SSO module done so quickly.

Things that would be nice:

Planned sessions please. People have lives. Lives don’t bend around “There might be a session between 9 and 5 that sounds cool.”
Having people silence their phones during talks. Rude++
Theme for the meet, or possible topic areas.

Things that were nice:

The creative atmosphere.
The people.
The food.

Topics that I should at least read up on:

Barry, Jose, Wil, and Jeremy were present, all looking like they have been to more events like this than me.

SortHelper2 - Multiple Table / Coumn Sorting

Montana — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:45:56 +0000

When working with Rails for the rewrite of our site management utility I had the need to perform sorting on multiple columns of a result set. SortHelper2 is clean and works well for one table but it doesn’t support multiple tables. I present:

SortHelper2 - Multiple Tables

Please leave a comment with any bugs/issues you find.

Todo:

Add Tests

Wedding

Montana — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:10:51 +0000

Just married this weekend. Yay!

Pictures.

Plone and Ubuntu Edgy Eft 6.10

Montana — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:20:08 +0000

While looking into Plone I wanted to get a development environment up quickly. Searching the webs revealed a few sites which described the process on Dapper. Applying those tutorials failed because of a few package changes.

Here are the commands to get things up and running:

sudo aptitude install zope2.9

sudo aptitude install plone-site

This will ask you for some admin settings and then start the Zope server.

The default port is 8081, so you can float on over to http://localhost:8081/

HTMs

Montana — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:47:54 +0000

I have found an interest in HTMs or “Hierarchical Temporal Memorys”. Jeff Hawkins, the creator of Palm Inc. and Handspring has started a community around this technology. The aim is to allow computers to learn the same way that the brain does, through patterns in hierarchy and time.

Currently, I’m reading Hierarchical Temporal Memory: Concepts, Theory and Terminology

Robert, from work, thought of a good use for this technology.

Monitoring live web access logs for our servers at work to see if a site has been hacked or we are receiving a DOS attack.

This is a fairly encompassing idea, but I think that HTMs will be able to accomplish it easily.

Hi.

Montana — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:26:57 +0000

Welcome. A change, for the better, I hope.
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