Discrete Passions

Discrete is defined as constituting a separate entity : individually distinct.

Discrete Passions is a collection of statements and stories reflecting why I love life, starting before time and evolving with every new bit of awareness I acquire. People, Software development, Physics often top my list of discrete passions.

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Tackling programming in chunks

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Sometimes, out of nowhere, you discover you've acquired some wisdom over the years. Wisdom, in this case, was probably inherited from m...

Sunday, October 07, 2012

Career bootstrapping for young people: an alternative strategy

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At a Satellite coffee shop here in ABQ yesterday, I heard a guy I knew to be a successful local businessman giving a 24 year old fella advi...

Saturday, July 07, 2012

Key to understanding Higgs Boson... field versus particle

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It's a bit of a stretch going from javascript to physics, but why not? On the web today, "answers" are all around us. It...

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

alpha sorting (filters) with unobtrusive (jQuery) javascript

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Often I see code for alpha lists that looks like the following... <a url="#" onClick="javascript:performFilter('D...

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

MongoDB Tip #2 - updating fields via Java/Groovy (Bicycle Shop Example)

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First post of the new year, 2nd MongoDB tip... here we go! Let's say that you're writing software for a bicycle repair shop. You n...

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David H. Young: Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States; I am Chief Technology Officer for a fleet driver risk management company. My focus is on open source technologies and platforms. I've written two books: Visual Tcl Handbook and Enhydra XMLC. I've been CEO of a start-up firm (Lutris Technologies). And, as I always will be, a proud father of three brilliant, beautiful daughters... Linked-In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kspar

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