07 Jul
Posted by Harper in General at 05:32 PM
Tags: agile, blogs, books, coding, development, engineering, firefox, gtd, hiromi, management, projects, rails, ruby, yoyo
Yes. it is true. i am freakishly busy. and of course while being freakishly busy i find the most time expensive hobby ever. So matiss and i have been playing quake 3 again. We were playing the requiem mod for hours, but it got kinda boring so we switched to the urban terror full conversion. [...]
I am back. i have been back since sunday night - it was a trip. I really liked san fran and i really liked hanging with noah and the gravity guys. Nice. The office was super class and they are doing such cool stuff. I stayed in this dope hotel and ate at really nice [...]
08 Jun
Posted by Harper in General at 06:50 PM
Tags: andy, food, on, projects, rails, railsday, ruby
So andy and i did rails day on saturday. It was quite an experience. We started about 10am and worked until about 6pm. We got almost the entire way through the application with some MAJOR pieces missing - but not so bad for barely 8 hours or whatever. we totally coudl have finished if we [...]
23 May
Posted by Harper in General at 12:06 AM
Tags: bike, books, crobar, danielle, google, hacking, hacks, hiromi, music, programming, psp, rails, ruby, trex, wedding
So i had written some crappy post on how i made this it said:
here check it out here. i have been listening to only t. rex. i love it.
After thinking about it - i decided that this weekend deserved a better entry than “yea look here blah blah blah.” So here goes.
Friday was [...]
hiromi got a blog. heh. i hooked her up. hopefully she will use it. UNLIKE MATISS. heh.
anyway. yea. the new ruby on rails (i.e. raspberry) ituners.com is almost done. i am excited. it is pretty sweet.
30 Apr
Posted by Harper in General at 12:20 AM
Tags: ajax, apple, application, applications, jack, mac, music, on, osx, rails, ruby, spade, tiger, web
So i haven’t really been posting to my blog as i would like. I have instead been coding ruby on rails applications. it is fun. i am kinda bored. sorta. not really. i was bored. then i discovered the ajax helpers. haha. so much fun. unfortunately a site such as harperreed.org doesn’t lend itself [...]
19 Apr
Posted by Harper in General at 11:35 PM
Tags: alliedmovements, blogs, community, domains, dylan, php, rails, ruby, stigmata
I decided to follow the pack of wild php developers and attack ruby on rails. it rules. in the past 30 hours of dayish time - i have spent a significant amount of time devoted to learning this new platform. it is nifty for sure. Basically it is an mvcish platform that runs off of [...]
Hi. My name is Harper. I am an engineer and software architect involved in social networks and the open source software. I am very happily employed as the CTO to the awesome skinnyCorp in Chicago, IL. We make some really cool stuff. This is obviously my blog. I write about everything from being a professional yoyoer to hacking the newest Internet appliance. Be sure and check out my homepage at harperreed.org. If you are so interested, my resume is located here. I love getting emails and what not so feel free to contact me through here.
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