The Meekong Delta
The picture pretty much sums up our experience here the last two days. We have both pushed ourselves outside our comfort zone, we have tried many new foods, and even took a sip of rice wine that had been marinating with cobra! Where do you go after …
more ...For Sale: Spacious multi-bedroom dwelling, Over 150,000 square kilometers. three levels, the lowest will withstand even the heaviest B-52 bombing. Includes meeting rooms and hospitals. Miles of short narrow corridors, ideal for hobbits. Secret underwater entrance.
How would you like to live for nine years in an underground house …
more ...To say that there is a motorbike culture here in Saigon is a bit of an understatement. The population of Saigon is around seven million people and there are about four million motorbikes. Today we got to be a part of it all.
I'll spare you the details of our …
more ...It has been an exciting year for the Runestone Interactive project. Our Fall 2014 daily use has more than doubled that of Fall 2013, as we are serving nearly 8000 unique visitors a day on average on the interactivepython.org …
In the Christian church, Advent is a season of waiting, a season of anticipation. Normally, we are waiting and anticipating the celebration of the birth of Christ. Christmas! This year is no different, but it is a bit hard to not look just past Christmas at what awaits us in …
more ...I've just finished teaching a seven week course called Fundamentals of Web Development. Its an introductory course for potential CS majors and non-majors alike. I enjoyed teaching this course, but I learned something that I think has been right in front of me for years, that became very apparent with …
more ...School is underway again, and now that we are a few weeks in to the semester I wanted to take a minute to talk about growth. Last year about this time things were still pretty chaotic, with the unexpected success of the books the servers were laboring intensely to keep …
more ...I'm pleased to announce that over the weekend, I updated interactivepython.org to version 3.0. This release completes another summer of hacking, and integrating contributions from colleagues around the world.
My plan in this post is to briefly summarize some of the highlights of the new release and then …
more ...It has been an exciting day! I just got back from Cedar Rapids where I attended a mixer of mentors and teams at the Iowa Startup Accelerator. The accelerator officially launched yesterday with 10 new teams. There was some good local news coverage and lots of excitement by the teams …
more ...Well its been an interesting week. My daughter is married, and I've been caught in the crossfire of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Webfaction, my hosting provider. I'm quite sure the two are unrelated.
For those of you who have been frustrated in your attempts to access …
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