Joe's blog

So today I spent the afternoon driving around Mountain View. After going to the Computer History Museum (which was awesome mind you) I stopped by Google, Apple and Facebook world headquarters. Food for thought, all of the campuses were non-descript. Nothing like the amazing and older IBM, Oracle or Microsoft campuses. [...]

So I have this perception of my Android phone being more open and DRM free, and my Apple/iTunes account not being. I had an interesting experience this morning that I thought was best shared.
So, I just frustratingly bought an album a second time as apposed to trying to migrate it from my android [...]

Ouch, I don’t know how I missed this. So Comcast wins the right to tell you what data packets (That you paid for) come to your computer first.
Basically, a site like Hulu (who might have a partnership with Comcast) will work well, but Youtube (Google owned) may not. They now have [...]

I had a need to print the build status of our teamcity server in trac. After researching various solutions, I figured a trac macro would best fit. It was a surprisingly simple solution so I figured I would share it here.
I created a file called “TeamCityStatus.py” and placed it into my trac/plugins folder.
from [...]

It was odd today. I ran into a friend who just purchased a collection of CDs from a record store and I was kind of taken back. I mean, not that she bought CDs, but that you still could. I haven’t stepped foot into a store or purchased a CD in years [...]

I spent a few hours searching for, but had no luck in finding this. So I’m posting what I wrote!
This XSL will put a zero length space character into any word longer then 20 characters in any text node of the current XML document.
There is of course always better ways to do things, but [...]