Principal Engineer, type system nerd, Rust enthusiast, supporter of social justice, loving husband & father, avid comic & manga reader, 日本語を勉強してる。
I’m a Software Architect with more than 15 years of experience creating high performance server and front-end applications targeting web and mobile platforms, & today I lead a team at Formidable Labs.
It’s been quite awhile since the last time I wrote in this blog. The previous entry helped me find closure on the issue of our miscarriage, and after that I poured myself pretty heavily into things like programming and getting ready for our move back to Lewisville. I think the constant preoccupation…
Brandon Konkle
A month ago, I had three tower PCs running in my home office 24x7 - a desktop PC, a web server, and a home media server. Routinely high electric bills prompted me to make the decision to combine the two servers into one, but I wanted to do everything possible to isolate the media server activity fro…
Brandon Konkle
I just finished installing Adobe Air on my Ubuntu Linux desktop running a fresh install of the Jaunty 64-bit beta. It was a lot more straightforward than the instructions that Adobe provided here [http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb408084]. I found that in my installation of…
Brandon Konkle
Back in November, I posted a detailed entry [http://adoleo.com/blog/2008/nov/18/my-django-dev-test-and-production-environs/] about the environments I used to develop, test, and deploy my Django applications. Since then, I've made a lot of changes to my configuration that I feel have helped boos…
Brandon Konkle
It has been quite an eventful couple of months. When I last wrote, we were just heading into our Christmas Vacation with no idea what a rollercoaster ride we were about to get on. The Saturday after Christmas, Barbara and I got the wonderful news that Barbara was pregnant! We’ve been hoping that wou…
Brandon Konkle