A CSV parser in Javascript with support for embedded commas/quotes/newlines that can yield rows as they are parsed.
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#102Automating AMI creation across all four Amazon regions so it can be part of continuous integration. Goal is to integrate continuous deployment with EC2 auto scaling groups.
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#103Today's my last day as an employee at my job of 6 years. I'll become a consultant starting Monday so if they need me, it'll be hourly billing. I'm just reviewing my emails today and reassigning my regular responsibilities.
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#104Finalizing a budget, Creating job postings, Ordering company signage, Helping plan a company trip, Fixing exceptions in a Ruby/Rails application, Mapping out an asynchronous cache proxy solution that speaks JMS, Riding on Amtrak for 3 hours
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#105I'm working on implementing theme-support for a new travel journal app.
I'll also attempt to integrate FusionCharts in http://www.cashbasehq.com, a personal finances app.
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#106I am working on stuffing my face with burgers and chips prior to going back to the land of noodles and raw fish. Plus customer support emails, since birthdays and bridal showers don't stop just because I am on vacation.
I would be interested to know how much time you spend doing customer support; or, rather, whether you have tried to automate any of this using existing tools (like getsatisfaction, or even just a faq). Or since - as you have written in the past - your customers are not particularly techno-savvy, are these tools of limited use to you, and emails are the only way to go? This might be of interest to companies with simil…
I spend between 0 and 20 minutes a day on customer support for BCC, with most days (particularly in the summer) closer to zero.
Previously I used something which macroed responses (20% of the issues are 80% of the time, always) but I forgot to reinstall it, and support these days is fast enough that I don't really care enough to install it again.
My biggest tricks for decreasing the number are a) switching to a web app versus a downloadable app (I have a support page ("FAQ? Is that Arabic?") and some self-help support tools, like a password reminder system and a Registration Key lookup. (Support issue #1 for four years running.) My impression is that they help enough to justify creating them, but they're palliatives rather than solutions. I have no desire to use GetSatisfaction or any other third party which will confuse my customers to no positive purpose.
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#107Learning how to make a driver to OpenSolaris. Yeah, OpenSolaris.
Since I've never done anything close to that (I'm mostly a Rails guy), it's being kind of cool. College stuff :)
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#108Developing a statistics system for the football premier league in the UK.
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#109When did HN become twitter?
Using Clojure to sanify and convert doctor's notes from a giant Oracle instance on a EMR to a simple CouchDB instance.
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#110Migrating from my old mac book pro to my new mac book pro! Maybe some work if there's time after lunch. :)