Introducing Open Source to Middle Schoolers
At my kid’s school, a couple of times a year the parents are invited in to teach electives to the kids. I thought it would be fun to try to introduce the kids to something fun, and along the way expose...
View ArticleHalloween 2013: The Minion!
A few years ago I worked with Nathan to build a Master Chief costume. I had not done one yet for Gillian. Over the summer, Gillian and I had a date night to go see Dispicable Me 2. We both got a kick...
View ArticleYou can upgrade from Fedora 18 to Fedora 20
It took me a while to find this… so I wanted to post it very clearly. You can upgrade a Fedora 18 machine directly to Fedora 20. Thanks to Christine Caulfield for pointing out a few gotchas at...
View Article4.5 days of my life: Finally finished the West Wing!
Over the break, Jenny and I finally finished watching the West Wing. We had seen about 5 seasons when it originally aired. However, we never saw the last seasons. It is amazing, or sad, how well the...
View ArticleTutorial for a kid who wants to try to write iPhone Apps
My son has a week off, and is interested in learning how to write an iPhone App. He has worked with various visual programming environments like Scratch, Lego Robotics, etc. I put together a quick...
View ArticleDefensive Driving Class for Parents and Kids
This weekend we spent Sunday morning at a defensive driving course. I have heard of several of these classes, but we went to B.R.A.K.E.S. I say we, because these guys require that the parents and the...
View ArticleAnniversary Trip: NC Wine Country
For Christmas (2104), we decided that we should treat ourselves to a weekend away from the kids. We had spoken with Jason Hibbets about suggestions on nc wine country, and decided that was our plan. It...
View ArticleWhy You Want to Work At Red Hat
We have openings for Python, Rails, and Java developers. If you want to know why you want to work here.. take a look at a Facebook post from Todd Warner about working at Red Hat: I was drawing out our...
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