I'm excited to announce that I've recently started working on a regular expression book for O'Reilly Media. The back story is that a few months ago, Jeffrey Friedl (author of the world's best regular expression book yet ) was kind enough to introduce me to his editor at O'Reilly, Andy Oram. After Andy and I [...]

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I'm back from the SXSW Interactive conference, which offered a pretty decent selection of panels and good times. I ended up attending about 20 panels over three and a half days, and about as many bars and after-parties. Here were some of the personal highlights, for anyone who's interested. The first session I attended on Saturday [...]

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Despite flight cancellations and a last-minute work crisis, I've been in Austin, Texas with a couple work buddies since late-Friday to attend the packed-out South by Southwest Interactive conference. It's been a lot of fun so far. 11 panels into it, the standout for me has easily been 10 Things We've Learned at 37signals by [...]

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Some Valentine's-Day-themed geekery from around the intertubes… A Halo Valentine from II HYPNOTiiQ II and Xbox.com ↓ A hexadecimal / Zero Wing / Valentine / shirtmashup from ThinkGeek → ← The Rosette Nebula, Astronomy Picture of the Day for February 14, 2008, from Nasa.gov. The Rosette Nebula (aka NGC 2237) is not the only cosmic cloud of gas and [...]

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Behold my Mountain Dew collection at work, originally started when someone asked how much Dew I drank per day. This ended up taking me a couple months, since I slowed down from my previous ~4/day consumption rate right around the time I started preserving the evidence. The photo is by ColdFusion programmer and photographer Joe D'Angelo, [...]

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