The Corrosion of Aaron Stone

 I am setting sail for San Francisco, to a web development firm. My new daily grind awaits! Oh, heh, and hopefully they won’t mind that this blog runs WordPress

I had a pretty good job offer this past month from a natural language search firm looking for computational linguists — a dream job, right up my alley — but had to turn it down, for no other reason but the horrendously lopsided employment contract. Bottom ine: this management team does not trust the people […]

In November, I took a job at Decru, a Network Appliance company, as a QA Engineer. I’m in the Partner Relations group. Our job is to establish relationships with third party QA labs to run formal interoperability certifications between our products and their products. There’s two other people in the group, and they’re both really […]

I’ve been interviewing all week with small and large firms in the San Jose / Silicon Valley area for work as a Software Engineer. Interviewing is a lot of fun — dress just slightly better than the firm you’re walking into, but not too much better, else they’ll think you’re a business person and not […]

I got in! Joomla! will be my project, with Lee Cher Yeong as my mentor. To celebrate, I’m reading two books and building a barbeque pit.

I wrote four applications for the Summer of Code. The first one took like 12 hours to research and write, and the other three took 1-3 hours each. Once I got the hang of how I wanted to present stuff, it was just a matter of serializing it out of my head. In descending order […]

I’m planning on putting out a few proposals to get into the SoC 2006. I had hoped to get TWIG in as a mentor, but that didn’t go through. So I’ll take a tangent, and definitely see if there’s other good PHP work that can benefit everyone. My ideas are:
Portland State University: Open to “projects […]

Last week I got an itch to learn something about AJAX, and procrastinate a little bit on some work. I started out by trying to find some useful springboard to get into AJAXland, but discovered that a) most of the PHP toolkits for AJAX are really big and foreboding, and b) JSON notation is the […]

Ok, here’s the new wishlist item: ThinkPad X60s
Cash in hand: $400. More to raise: $1400.
I wish I could go for something cheaper, but the battery life on this thing, especially with the extra battery pack, is just amazing. Two models ago, when new, I got an honest 8 hours. After a year and a half, […]

My laptop was stolen at about 4am-ish this past Friday. I’d been pulling all-nighters at the dining room table for weeks, and I’d just turned in at about 2am. The thief let himself in one of the doors, headed for a housemate’s room, scoping it out with a flashlight and woke her up. At first […]