Vimeo and Puerto Rico

I know I’m probably pretty late to this bandwagon, but I never realised just how much amazing content there is on Vimeo.  YouTube may be the king of video quantity, but sometimes (often? all the time?) I want to see original videos on interesting topics, in HD. The artist community on Vimeo is really strong, …

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April 24, 2010 – 18:12 | By dariusz | Posted in Personal Stuff | Tagged , , , | View Comments

PHP on IIS

I’ve been playing around with IIS recently.  The Windows/IIS community is not nearly as well served by Open Source as the competition, which is unfortunate given that IIS is a really popular platform for intranets and other enterprise applications.  It’s not really fair to ask your IT department to support Apache + MySQL as well …

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March 11, 2010 – 18:08 | By dariusz | Posted in Software Development | Tagged , , , , | View Comments

Final thought on the Vancouver 2010 Olympics

As much as I was extremely happy for all the Canadian athletes at the Vancouver 2010 winter Olympics, especially the speed skaters, I’ve had this nagging feeling I want to get off my chest. Maybe it’s too early to say it, but I didn’t like the blatant Canadian nationalism on display at the 2010 Olympic …

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March 3, 2010 – 11:26 | By dariusz | Posted in Activism and Politics, Personal Stuff | Tagged , , | View Comments

Lunch and Adventure, my new blog: loudlunch.com

Hey all, I’ve been busy blogging at work behind the firewallz so I haven’t been so keen on updating my personal blog.  But I have been pretty passionate about lunch-time lately.  So in that vein, I decided to start writing about it on a new blog, Loud Lunch. Loud Lunch will be dedicated to my …

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January 21, 2010 – 17:33 | By dariusz | Posted in Personal Stuff | View Comments

Getting lucky with free mobile WiFi

Like lots of people in tech, I have a Blackberry with WiFi.  Regardless of how good Rogers has been with their 3G network, WiFi is faster to browse with, and free-er. With that in mind, I’ve added my home and work WiFi networks to my connections (Manage Connections -> Set Up WiFi Network), and just …

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December 18, 2009 – 12:51 | By dariusz | Posted in Software Development | Tagged , | View Comments

TorCHI Presentation: Sprint Zero and Agile Design

My co-workers Khan and Brian and myself went to the University of Toronto for a presentation at TorCHI.  It was by Lynn Miller, a  Senior Manager at AutoDesk (Maya, 3DSMax, AutoCAD, etc.) The presentation was about Sprint Zero: the lead-up work that is required before a team embarks on an Agile project, or any project …

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December 9, 2009 – 15:23 | By dariusz | Posted in Software Development | View Comments

Blue Beanie Day 2009 @ Desire2Learn

blue beanie day. Originally uploaded by jclhicks. So some of the design and standards people at work wore blue toques today in celebration/encouragement of designing with web standards: Doug Vos’ Writeup on Blue Beanie Day 2009 If you’re interested in showing some web-standards solidarity, take a look at the Facebook group.  We’ve been really struggling …

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November 30, 2009 – 10:42 | By dariusz | Posted in User Experience | View Comments

Wódka or Vodka? Or why being Polish is tough.

The team at Vice, recently put out this great, short little documentary-style film about the origins of vodka.   As the writers allude, many countries lay claim to being vodka originators the way the Russians do, but none with so much difficulty (and legitimacy) as Poland. Despite starting off a little slowly, and not doing the …

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October 29, 2009 – 00:43 | By dariusz | Posted in Personal Stuff | Tagged , , | View Comments