Twitter is a micro-blogging platform resting somewhere in between IRC and e-mail. It is a nice informal way of staying in touch and people are inclined to use it because of the quick and easy format.
Primarily I use twitter to stay up to date on local Portland tech but it seems that the Novell [...]
Author Archives: Brandon Philips
It’s a good time to be on Twitter
2/14/2008 – 4:53 pm
Six Weeks to Robot at Ignite Portland
2/9/2008 – 10:56 pm
Recently I presented at Ignite Portland and a video has been published on YouTube. The event was rockin’ and being a part of the whole thing was amazing. If you weren’t able to make it you really missed out.
Luckily, we have the technology to bring the event to you! LinuxAid lovingly recorded [...]
Come see me at Ignite Portland 2
1/30/2008 – 1:01 am
Woo! I sent my slides off for my Ignite Portland 2 talk this afternoon (late, sorry). Assembling the twenty slides for my presentation took nearly 6 hours. You see, at Ignite the presenter has no control over the pacing; therefore, knowing exactly what you want to say and when is very important. [...]
suckless screen lock
11/25/2007 – 11:21 am
A useful tool: slock is a tiny c program that locks your screen like xlock. But, with only 147 lines of very straightforward code it would be very difficult to introduce vulnerabilities
Perfection: Spoon + Dancing Robots
8/24/2007 – 6:51 am
I am a huge fan of robots and Spoon so this video is perfection. It is too bad I will be leaving LA two days before Spoon and KeepOn play at NextFest!
Source: IEEE automation blog
Geeky music, tools and bugs
8/17/2007 – 10:30 pm
Today’s discoveries:
TCC is a tiny C compiler that allows you to do #!/usr/bin/tcc -run at the top of C files! It is really handy for those 20 line test programs.
Things I am working on:
Today I wrote what seems like a proper solution to a QEMU bug that was causing CDROM devices to be unhappy [...]
Life: an update
7/28/2007 – 1:50 pm
I have not blogged recently because of a number of life changes. I will try to fix that now that I have a steady location and job. To clear the air here is everything I have been doing in a chronological list.
Graduated from Oregon State University with a computer science degree.
Traveled to Vienna, [...]
procmail magic: I am not afraid of lists anymore
6/3/2007 – 12:03 pm
Yesterday a number of list posts from lists I had forgotten to write a procmail rule for made their way into my inbox. I didn’t like the idea of adding yet more cookie cutter rules to my ever expanding .procmailrc to fix the issue so, I went hunting for a better solution.
After searching for [...]
guilt: my first Debian package
3/21/2007 – 9:46 am
For the last few weeks I have been working on a Debian package for guilt, a quilt like tool that works on top of a git repository.
Getting the initial package together was easy thanks to dh_make. This created the debian/ directory and basic control files that were needed to Debianize the source. After [...]
In high school I built robots
3/9/2007 – 4:10 pm
While digging through a pile of old CDs I found a video documentary of my first high school robotics project, Bob version 1.0. So, I posted the video up on Google Video. The project was a joint venture between Sherwood and Newberg high schools and I was a lead developer.
The year after [...]
