aaron evans

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I rarely read my archives but my nostalgia kicked in as the blog recently hit two years of age. Here are some of my favorites: Nov, 2005: I evaluated the cost of financing versus leasing a car. Aug, 2006: I argued that the economy at large was threatened by the housing bubble. Dec, 2006: I explained [...]

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There is no shortage of advice available to guide you in writing a resume. I’m going to pollute those waters a bit more and lend my advice which is targeted at software developers. It’s fairly easy for an intelligent person with a bit of work experience to write a mediocre resume: insert contact info, insert previous [...]

I told someone the other day that they could Google me and I’d show up. Today, I tried that and it didn’t work. Googling ‘Aaron Evans‘ shows no sign of aarone.org. I’m still in their index; just search for aarone.org and this site shows up. I’ve seen Google leave me out [...]

This blog uses WordPress for its backend. Until today, I was using ecto to publish my posts and formatting my posts using HTML. In general, it works ok. For the sake of change, I decided this morning to try a new blogging workflow: Format posts in Markdown Write posts using TextMate Keep WordPress as my [...]

Mac OS X 10.4 includes the ICU library but no simple way to actually use it. ICU is an open source Unicode library developed by IBM for Unicode and Locale-dependent functionality. Apple provides the library (/usr/lib/libicucore.dylib) in a standard Mac OS X installation but no headers to compile against the library. [...]

aarone.org is now hosted by TextDrive. I’m so happy with this web host. Here are the features that appeal to me: WebDAV access subversion hosting ssh/sftp access ability to create users with restricted privileges support for trac webdav access iCal hosting MySQL, PostgreSQL, and BerkeleyDB support much more… I’m sold.

I got a Dell Latitude D820 for work. What follows is a fairly predictable rant from a longtime mac user. First, it doesn’t look as bad as I thought it would. Sure, it’s ugly but I get the impression Dell is really trying. However, many of the typical PC oddities are present on [...]