http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm What I Gotta Say en-us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:58:58-0800 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:07:00-0800 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss telegramsam@byu.edu telegramsam@byu.edu http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2010/1/3/On-Being-30 I had my 30th birthday this last week. I was frequently asked how I has handling it. Turning 30 seems to carry some serious mental baggage for many people, and seems to cause reflection on one's progress through life. I'm very happy with my life. ... Personal Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:07:00-0800 http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2010/1/3/On-Being-30 http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2009/10/20/Changing-the-World-at-Kynetx I've been pretty quiet on my blog lately, and I have a really good excuse. Now that I've graduated and have time to get involved in some serious endeavors, I've joined the folks at Kynetx. I've been contributing in their efforts to change the world. ... Web-Applications Development Personal Technology Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:00:00-0800 http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2009/10/20/Changing-the-World-at-Kynetx http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2009/8/30/Sam-Rides-1000-The-Numbers I've now finished my 1,000 mile challenge, and like any self-respecting geek, I ran a few numbers about my ride. I've posted them here, as well as some thoughts about the experience. Stats Start Date: 15 May 2009 Days: 100 Calendar Days Tim... Bikes Personal Android Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:52:57-0800 http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2009/8/30/Sam-Rides-1000-The-Numbers http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2009/7/28/Sam-Rides-1000-Mountain-Bike-Commuting-Tires Early on in my 1,000 mile quest, one of my tires needed to be replaced. I had heard someplace that you could be tires designed for pavement for a mountain bike, and I started poking around. My good friends at Infinite Cycles recommended that I ... Bikes Personal Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:32:00-0800 http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2009/7/28/Sam-Rides-1000-Mountain-Bike-Commuting-Tires http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2009/6/30/Sam-Rides-1000-Augmenting-the-Web In my previous two posts, I introduced my project and described data collection using my G1 and Google Spreadsheets. Today, I'm going to show you how I used Kynetx Network Services to add my ride stats to my personal blog and to the Google homepage.... Web-Applications Javascript Android Development Personal Technology Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:19:00-0800 http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2009/6/30/Sam-Rides-1000-Augmenting-the-Web http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2009/6/26/Sam-Rides-1000-Collecting-Ride-Data-using-the-Android-Powered-G1 On my Android powered T-Mobile G1, I'm using the free My Tracks application to record my rides. I start recording just before I start, then throw it in my pocket or bag. I stop recording at the end of my ride, then use the Upload to Google option in ... Web-Applications Android Development Personal Technology Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:06:00-0800 http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2009/6/26/Sam-Rides-1000-Collecting-Ride-Data-using-the-Android-Powered-G1 http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2009/6/26/Sam-Rides-1000-An-exercise-in-collecting-data-and-web-augmentation May 15, 2009 was National Ride your Bike to Work day, and I pulled out my bike and rode the 6 or so miles between my house and the Kynetx offices at Thanksgiving Point. I enjoyed it, and rode a few more times in the next week. I was musing how many m... Web-Applications Development Android Technology Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:42:00-0800 http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2009/6/26/Sam-Rides-1000-An-exercise-in-collecting-data-and-web-augmentation http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2009/5/30/Progressive-Spatial-Networks Iâ¬"ve been pretty silent the last few months here on my blog. Iâ¬"ve been pretty busy with things like settling into our new house and starting full-time at Kynetx. A major sap on my free time both recently and for the last several years has been my... Development Personal School Sat, 30 May 2009 00:00:39-0800 http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2009/5/30/Progressive-Spatial-Networks http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2009/2/11/Nontechnical-friends-on-Twitter When Twitter was new, the only people that followed me were early adopter, technical people. As twitter has become more mainstream, I have more and more non-technical friends that see my tweets. This is also a result of hooking my twitter feed into F... Personal Technology Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:12:00-0800 http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2009/2/11/Nontechnical-friends-on-Twitter http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2009/2/10/Trouble-with-Random-LongRunning-request-in-ColdFusion-8 I've been experiencing some run-time weirdness with ColdFusion for the past year or so, and I've finally decided to post my observations and see if anyone else has been having similar troubles. The trouble shows up on any number of scripts, but is... Web-Applications Development ColdFusion Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:01:00-0800 http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2009/2/10/Trouble-with-Random-LongRunning-request-in-ColdFusion-8 http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2009/1/12/Sorting-SimpleDB-queries-on-Multiple-Attributes Image via CrunchBase I was recently working with a dataset in Amazonâ¬"s SimpleDB, and I needed to be able to sort query results on multiple attributes. SimpleDB currently only allows sorting by a single attribute, so I was stuck. The solution... Web-Applications Amazon Web Services Development Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:20:10-0800 http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2009/1/12/Sorting-SimpleDB-queries-on-Multiple-Attributes http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2008/12/22/Cloud-Computing--The-5th-Utility Image by stan via Flickr This post is part of a series of posts relating to distributed system design that I'm completing as part of my Computer Science MS program at BYU. My 6th paper was written by some good folks at The University of Melbo... Technology Amazon Web Services Development School Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:19:21-0800 http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2008/12/22/Cloud-Computing--The-5th-Utility http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2008/12/13/Comparing-Grids-and-Clouds Image via Wikipedia This post is part of a series of posts relating to distributed system design that I'm completing as part of my Computer Science MS program at BYU. My next paper is an EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE) comparison between... Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:21:59-0800 http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2008/12/13/Comparing-Grids-and-Clouds http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2008/12/6/Really-Bad-reasons-not-to-autoscale-cloud-based-systems O'Reilly writer George Reese posted today what I consider to be a poor evaluation of the perils of auto-scaling in the cloud. He does mention the concept of using a governor to limit the power of the auto-scale agent to spin up servers (and spend mo... Web-Applications Amazon Web Services Development Technology Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:26:57-0800 http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2008/12/6/Really-Bad-reasons-not-to-autoscale-cloud-based-systems http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2008/12/6/Lessons-Learned-managing-the-Windows-Live-Platform Image via Wikipedia  This post is part of a series of posts relating to distributed system design that I'm completing as part of my Computer Science MS program at BYU. This paper, the fourth in a series of eight, is both the most simple ... Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:06:20-0800 http://sam.curren.ws/index.cfm/2008/12/6/Lessons-Learned-managing-the-Windows-Live-Platform